Board approves 150-foot riprap and living shoreline on Carlos Creek

The Lancaster County Wetlands Board approved a shoreline project for West Irvington LLC and Mack Brothers LLC that will install 150 feet of riprap and a living shoreline along Carlos Creek.

Sherry McDearman, representing Mack Brothers LLC, described the project during the hearing: the proposal advertises 150 feet of riprap revetment and a living shoreline that includes 115 feet of rock sill, about 123 cubic yards of clean sand fill and roughly 760 square feet of wetland vegetation planting along the shoreline off Virginia State Highway 634 (King Carter Drive). The project was identified on tax maps as parcels 33‑254 and 33‑255 and in the hearing record as MRC number 25‑0594.

County staff had no comments on the application and the local marine resources commission recorded no comments. The chair asked whether anyone in the audience or online wished to speak; no public comments were received. A board member moved to approve the project as presented; the motion carried unanimously, recorded as a 5–0 vote.

The record provided to the board describes the project as a combination of hard and living shoreline techniques intended to stabilize the bank and restore vegetated wetlands at the site. The meeting record contains the advertised dimensions and the applicant’s description but does not include a construction timetable or cost estimate.