Sitting on a bench by the fishing pier at Sleepy Hole Park in Suffolk, Beth Cross gestured to a swath of the Nansemond River.
“If you’re looking to the left, that was condemned waters. And to the right is more of the tidal flow and not-condemned waters pushing down towards the lower river,” said Cross, director of the nonprofit Nansemond River Preservation Alliance.
“So we can literally see the acres that have been released from condemned status right from the park. It’s pretty exciting.”…