National Design Resiliency Competition for Ohio Creek

The National Design Resiliency Competition for Ohio Creek was awarded to the City of Norfolk, Virginia in order to study, prioritize, and fix the flooding and tidal storm surge issues in the Chesterfield and Granby Village neighborhoods.  Several overarching goals are being accommodated by the design team.  These include exemplifying coastal resilience, creating water management solutions, improving real estate values, and strengthening the community as a whole.  With nearly a hundred solutions having been explored for storm and flooding resilience, WPL is providing support as the local landscape architect and an integrator of broad planning concepts with practical and sustainable applications.  WPL’s role has been to provide quality assurance and control for the human function and aesthetics of the project relative to planning, site amenities, stormwater parks, streetscapes, and various storm and coastal protective measures.  WPL has also been the primary designers for the Marlboro Avenue road replacement.  Since the road will require heavy infrastructure to support the storm hydrology for the project, it will require complete replacement.  Permeable pavers were selected to replace the road in order to allow for storage and to facilitate easier pipe repairs in the future.   Another work order WPL was engaged on was for updating and improving the City’s “Retain Your Rain” web app.  This online tool needed its own imagery and text for a series of home projects that residents could initiate on their own property to help slow and store rainwater.  WPL provided new framework for the app and original graphics and trendy narratives for residents to better get engaged.

Relevancy:

• Stormwater BMP Planning & Design
• Shoreline protection planning & design
• Tidal Flood Protection Planning
• Living Shorelines
• Flood Walls
• Berms
• Levees
• SW Pump Stations
• Gates