Pocket Beach: Yorktown, Virginia

Along Water Street in Yorktown, VA, York County led a shoreline protection project that placed clean sand fill and rock breakwaters to form a series of pocket beaches—beaches stabilized by artificial or natural headlands. The project provides protection to approximately 1,600 feet of Route 1020 (Water Street) along the York River and serves as a recreational amenity for the Yorktown waterfront. The original breakwaters, 7,500 cubic yards of beach fill, and planted Spartina alterniflora and Spartina patens cost $260,000 for protection of 1,350 feet of shoreline. The County of York was the primary sponsor of this project.