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Are there wetlands on the property?

Sources to determine whether property has tidal or non-tidal wetlands:

• 1993 National Wetlands Inventory (NWI) Maps
  United States Fish and Wildlife Services (USFWS)

  • Resource to research approximate location.

• NWI/Hydric Soils Maps - Coming soon

• USGS Quad Maps

  • Virginia Quadrangles

    Quads: Bowers Hill, Deep Creek, Fentress, Kempsville, Lake Drummond SW/NW, Norfolk South & Pleasant Ridge

• Recognizing Wetlands
  US Army Corps of Engineers (COE)

• United States Army Corps of Engineers (COE)

  Contact ROD (Regulator of the Day) at (757) 201-7652 to determine whether any previous delineation was made to the property and to provide jurisdictional determination.

• Agents & Consultants

  A consultant can perform a wetlands delination.

  Learn more about Wetlands

Federal, State, and Local Agency Jurisdiction

See Jurisdictional Boundaries illustration.

Different federal, state, and local agencies have jurisdiction over different types of wetlands. The following list generally describes the jurisdictional divisions:

• The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has jurisdiction over waters of the U.S. (surface waters that involve interstate commerce, their tributaries, and tidal and non-tidal wetlands adjacent and connected to these waters).

• In Virginia, the Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) has jurisdiction over state surface waters including tidal and non-tidal wetlands. These state surface waters are also waters of the U.S. as described above. The Department also has jurisdiction over wetlands that are not hydrologically connected to surface waters, typically referred to as isolated wetlands.

• In Virginia, the Virginia Marine Resources Commission has jurisdiction over state bottomlands, that is, lands below the mean low water or ordinary high water line.

Wetlands Permitting