Resource International LTD, located just north of Richmond Virginia in Ashland, Hanover County, Virginia, Satellite office in Hampton Roads Virginia, Chesapeake, Virginia Beach. We Provide excellence in the following service areas Civil Engineering,Civil Engineers,Land Development,Land Surveying,Land Planning,Site Engineering,Environmental Scientists,Wetland Services,Stream Restoration,Solid Waste Engineering. We offer better service at a price that is competitive with other local engineering firms such as Timmons Group, Balzer & Associates, Kimley Horn, CDM, Draper Aden, HDR, Golder, ch2mhill, Mattern and Craig. Our experience is second to none. At Resource International, we challenge ourselves to rethink the traditional, to apply innovative and sustainable technology and to identify creative engineering and environmental solutions in order to earn our clients for life.

Government Island
Trail Improvement

Government Island, located in Stafford County at the delta of Aquia Creek, played a unique role in the history of the United States. The Aquia Sandstone desposits located onsite provided the building material for much of the White House and United States Capital.

Government Island was purchased by Stafford County in 1998 and is planned as a public historical park. In an effort to open this historical landmark to the public, Resource was contracted by Stafford County for the following services:

  • Wetland Delineation
  • 401/404 Permitting - Stream impacts
  • HEC/RAS Analysis
  • Engineering the parking area, boardwalks, stream crossings, and trails

Resource wetland scientists delineated the limits of the Waters of the U.S. for the project area in the summer of 2005. Resource wetland scientists and engineers worked together to develop a plan utilizing LID features for the parking area and boardwalk to Government Island. Resource wetland scientists completed a HEC RAS analysis to ensure the proposed crossings would not adversely affect the 100-year floodplain elevation. Two open pile boardwalks were designed to allow access for residents of an adjacent subdivision, as well as for the main crossing to Government Island. The joint effort between Resource and the County, along with a little ingenuity, resulted in a project with no impacts to Jurisdictional Waters of the U.S., which includes wetlands.

The development plan was reviewed jointly by the Virginia Marine Resources Commission, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, the Virginia Department of Historic Resources, The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and approved in the Spring of 2007.

The hiking trail will help to interpret the site's history and stone-quarrying process, and allow visitors a glimpse of the thousands of hand-made chisel marks that remain forever etched in the stone faces on the island. In December 2006, the two-mile loop trail on Government Island was designated as a segment on the National Park Service's Potomac Heritage National Scenic Trail, a developing network of trails between the mouth of the Potomac River and the Allegheny Highlands.

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