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August 13, 2024 Background:  The Craney Island Disposal Area is a 2,500-acre confined dredged material site developed in the 1940s to provide a long term-disposal area for material dredged from the channels and ports of Hampton Roads.  The Disposal Area is owned by the United States and controlled by the Army Corps of Engineers.  In 1973, the United States granted the City a 15-foot stormwater drainage easement across the Craney Island Disposal Area for the placement of a 24-inch drainage pipe.  The drainage easement serves the area of Rivershore Road and Parish Lane. Discussion:  The easement agreement had a term of 50 years and expired in 2023.  The Army Corps of Engineers has offered to grant the City another easement located in the same area and for the same stormwater facilities.  The Army Corps of Engineers will charge the City approximately $9,000 for the easement. $9,000 is the estimated cost to the Corps to perform the mapping and create the documentation that it deems necessary to grant the easement. Financial Impact:  The cost of the easement will be approximately $9,000. There is funding available in the Stormwater Fund Budget to pay the cost. Recommended Action:  Adoption of resolution. Next Steps Following Council Action:  The Army Corps of Engineers will prepare the easement documents. Motion by Mr. Hugel, and seconded by Ms. Lucas-Burke, to adopt the following resolution, and was adopted by the following vote: “RESOLUTION AUTHORIZING THE ACQUISITION OF A STORMWATER DRAINAGE EASEMENT FROM THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA (CRANEY ISLAND DISPOSAL AREA). WHEREAS, by Easement for Right of Way dated October 10, 1973, as supplemented by Supplemental Agreement No. 1 dated August 6, 1974 and Supplemental Agreement No. 2 dated April 12, 1999, the United States of America, through the Secretary of the Army, granted the City a 15 foot stormwater drainage easement for the placement of 24 inch drainage pipe to the north of Rivershore Road, as shown on Exhibit A hereto (the “Prior Easement”); and WHEREAS, the term of the Prior Easement was fifty years and it has now expired; and WHEREAS, the Army Corps of Engineers has offered to grant the City a new easement for the same location; and WHEREAS, the cost of the new easement is anticipated to be $9,000, which is the Army’s internal cost for preparing the new easement documents; NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia that it hereby approves and authorizes the acquisition of a new easement to replace the Prior Easement for a purchase price of approximately $9,000, and be it further resolved that the City Manager is authorized to deliver the purchase price and execute such documents or instruments as may be necessary or desirable in furtherance of the intent of this Resolution.” Ayes: Barnes, Hugel, Lucas-Burke, Tillage, Glover Nays: None