Tidewater Community College Regional Health Professions Center

Project Tasks and Responsiblities

As part of a statewide on-call contract through the Virginia Community College System, 3e was retained to assist the Tidewater Community College, Virginia Beach Campus with its construction program for the $31.5 million Regional Health Professions Center site located on a 17- acre parcel of abandoned agricultural land at the Rosemont Avenue entrance to the TCC-VB campus. 3e completed a Phase I Environmental Site Assessment and commissioned a cultural resources survey (by Lewis Berger Group) to comply with development-related investigational studies as part of a state Environmental Impact Report. 

Follow-on work included an extensive Prior Converted Croplands (PCC) determination and field delineation of waters of the U. S. on the former agricultural parcel upon which some site work to haul in sandy surcharge fill had been inadvertently begun. After agency coordination to resolve the PCC issues, the ‘problem area wetland’ aspects of the site, and survey location of all jurisdictional resources, 3e filed a Final Jurisdictional Determination with the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers. 3e thereafter performed an avoidance and minimization analysis with project engineers and requested an after-the-fact joint permit application seeking general permit authorization to impact adjacent and isolated wetlands (emergent, scrub-shrub, forested cover types) located within linear ditch features and old plow zone depressions throughout the site.  The Virginia DEQ issued a general water protection permit 4 and State Programmatic General Permit for 0.98 acres of wetland impacts on the construction site.

Following permit issuance, 3e coordinated with the agencies and the City Department of Public Works to acquire 1.15 mitigation credits from the City-owned Creeds Mitigation bank. 3e also coordinated the pre-construction meeting, and provided the TCCVB contractor with a Powerpoint presentation and handouts to assist them with DEQ permit compliance requirements. 3e also was responsible for conducting construction monitoring of the development site by collecting and compiling field data, maps and photographs from fixed points using DEQ formwork into Day 1, Day 30, Day 60 and Day 90 construction site reports, which were accepted by DEQ in response to the issued permit’s special conditions.