(BUC) Buckroe Beach
Location:
Chesapeake Bay, City of Hampton, Virginia
Site Parameters:
- Locality: City of Hampton
- Body of Water: Chesapeake Bay
- State: Virginia
- Shore Direction of Face: East-southeast
- Shore Type: Beach
- Average Shore Height: 6 feet
- Land Use: Public Beach
- Coast Type: Straight
- Type: Headland Control Breakwaters
- Average Fetch: 21 miles plus oceanic component
- Distance to 6ft Contour: 30,600 ft.
- Number of Breakwaters: 1
- Date Installed: March 2002