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Residents ask Essex supervisors to add Grandview Drive to VDOT flood-mitigation list

Essex County Board of Supervisors · January 15, 2026
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Summary

Several residents told the board that Grandview Drive at Mayfly Drive floods repeatedly, cutting off about 39 houses and creating risks for residents and first responders, and they asked the county to add the road to a VDOT mitigation submission and raise it at an upcoming VDOT meeting.

Multiple Essex County residents urged the Board of Supervisors on Jan. 13 to add Grandview Drive at Mayfly Drive to the Virginia Department of Transportation list of roads needing flood mitigation.

"Thirty-nine houses are cut off every time a coastal flood advisory is issued by the National Weather Service," Nicole…

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