A $2 million federal grant will fund new living shoreline projects along the Elizabeth River, an effort aimed at improving water quality and adding natural buffers in neighborhoods that regularly experience flooding.
The Elizabeth River Project announced it received the grant from the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation to construct what it calls “mosaic living shorelines” throughout the river’s watershed, including Norfolk, Portsmouth, Chesapeake and Virginia Beach.
The three-year grant, which runs through September 2028, allows the nonprofit to take a layered approach to shoreline restoration — building from mud flats and shellfish habitat to low and high marsh grasses and upland buffers behind them…