Waste and recycling services scheduled for Wednesday, Jan. 22, will occur on Saturday, Jan. 25.
Located in the Southern Rivers Watershed of Virginia Beach, the Ashville Bridge Creek Watershed is part of the larger Albemarle Sound Estuary and drains south through Shipps Bay/North Bay, Back Bay and into the Currituck Sound.
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The Ashville Bridge Creek Watershed extends from just south of Birdneck Road to slightly north of Pleasant Ridge Road. The land and waterbodies that flow through the watershed make up approximately 16,000 acres of primarily agricultural, residential and commercial uses. Large waterbodies include Redwing Lake and Lake Tecumseh, as well as some large areas of forest and wetlands.
On April 19, 2018, the City of Virginia Beach hosted the 2018 North Landing River/Albemarle Sound Estuarine Symposium. Its goal was to raise awareness for the need to protect and restore the North Landing River and Albemarle Sound.
Public Works initiated the development of a stormwater quality monitoring evaluation to address residents’ concerns about the stormwater flowing into Ashville Bridge Creek. A plan developed in October 2018 identified 13 sampling locations and set the analysis parameters as well as the number of samples to be collected.
Samples were collected from October 2018 to February 2019 from the sites, which represented the watershed's different land use types such as urban, agricultural and undeveloped areas. Based on the data available from the monitoring evaluation, the stormwater quality of Ashville Bridge Creek is comparable to national and regional water quality standards for similar land use types.
No further monitoring by the City is planned currently.
Samples from Ashville Bridge Creek were collected from 13 sites from October 2018 to February 2019.
Based on the data, the stormwater quality of Ashville Bridge Creek is comparable to national and regional water quality standards for similar land use types.
The City established Capital Improvement Project 100391 Southern Rivers Watershed to identify and implement stormwater quality projects to help meet state and federal waste load allocation requirements in the watershed. These pollutant reductions are focused on both phosphorus and bacteria sources in the watershed. The projects aim to improve the water quality for the watersheds of Ashville Bridge Creek, Shipps Bay/North Bay and Back Bay.
