Norfolk is demolishing a large Ocean View beach ramp just months after construction due to storm damage and significant erosion, according to city officials.
Most of the $430,000 structure — which was built partly as an accessway for emergency vehicles — is being torn down following extreme beach erosion from several offshore hurricanes and nor’easters, said city officials.
“After looking at the condition of it, we do not have the area of beach for the emergency vehicles to get past the structure, and so the decision was made to go ahead and remove it,” said Tammy Halstead, an assistant city engineer with the Norfolk Department of Public Works…