Parks & Recreation Department - CEIC

All Year Projects

Adopt-A-Spot/Highway.  Invites groups and organizations to select a specific site to adopt and promise to keep it free from litter at least four times per year for a two-year  period.  Orange vests and trash bags are provided.  Road signs identifying the adopting group are erected.  Program sponsors include the CEIC, Chesapeake Public Works Department, and the Virginia Department of Transportation.

Adopt-A-Garden.  Civic organizations and businesses are encouraged to take an active role in helping to beautify the city by creating and maintaining a garden on selected medians, parks, municipal grounds, or other public locations.  Some participants take a hands-on approach by designing, planting, and maintaining the gardens for a two-year period.  Others agree to pay for a professional landscaping company to do the work.  A sign is erected to identify the participating group.  Sponsors include the Public Works Department, Parks and Recreation Department, and the CEIC.

City of Chesapeake Locality License Plate for Beautification and Conservation.  Purchase your City of Chesapeake Locality License Plate for Beautification and Conservation at any Virginia Division of Motor Vehicles (DMV) Office.  The plate costs $25 plus the cost of registration.  A personalized plate is an additional $10.  $15 of the cost will be used to fund Chesapeake beautification projects.  This $15 portion of the cost is tax deductible.

Fruitful Plantings.  Designed to solicit donations in order to purchase trees.  The trees are planted on publicly owned property in the City of Chesapeake.  Donations are always welcomed.

Newsletter.  Beautiful Chesapeake Virginia newsletter is printed three times per year.  Highlights local environmental projects and activities.

Chesapeake Liberty Garden.  The new LibertyGardenat Chesapeake City Park is a special place of natural beauty to honor the memory of those who perished on September 11, 2001.  Keep America Beautiful, Inc.(KAB) has invited all KAB communities to establish Liberty Gardens, hoping that such gardens will be established all across the U.S.A.  Tidewater Community College Horticulture students installed a stone retaining wall that can also be used as a seating area.  Sue Landerman, a nationally-known local artist, designed and installed a five-foot sculpture centered at the top of the garden.  Home Depot donated $1,000 to start the garden, and several other businesses have also made generous donations totaling almost $5,000, including Lowe’s, Greenbrier Farms, Pine Ridge Perennials, Bennetts Creek, Knotts Creek, K B Plant Farm, Oman Funeral Home, Sue Landerman, Maxwell Landscape Service Inc., Van Bourgondien, Allied Concrete Products, Riverside Brick & Supply Company, Chesapeake Parks and Recreation Department Grounds Division, and Carter’s Country Corner.  Volunteers have installed the garden and are being recruited to care for the garden.

Litterbags.  Litterbags are available for distribution at Chesapeake events, activities, and organization meetings.

For information or questions about the Chesapeake Environmental Improvement Council or its projects, call the Special Programs Office in the Parks and Recreation Department at 757-382-6411.