GSA Auctions Chesapeake Light Tower
06/03/2016 04:00 PM EDT
CURRENT BID: $10,000 STATE: VA NO. OF BIDDERS: 0 CLOSE TIME: 07-20-2016 02:00 PM CT.
This steel, Texas style tower was built in 1965 and is 120 feet tall. The tower is supported by four 33 inch concrete filled steel pilings driven 180 feet into the ocean bottom. The light tower is an adaptation modeled on the offshore oil drilling platform first employed off the coast of Texas, known as a Texas Tower on top of four steel legs that was engineered to be used as a lighthouse. The tower is supported by four 33 inch concrete filled steel pilings driven 180 feet in to the ocean bottom. The actual light tower stands 37 feet above the helicopter deck. The light tower holds an active aid-to-navigation; however, the United States Coast Guard may remove the aid-to-navigation in the future. The Federal aid-to-navigation located on the property remains the personal property of the United States. The United States reserves an unrestricted right for ingress and egress to maintain, operate, repair, replace or relocate the aid-to-navigation or any associated equipmen t.
No fee land shall be conveyed with the sale. The property conveyed by Bill of Sale is for the Chesapeake Light Tower only. Its purchase does not include submerged land. With regard to occupancy, the tower is subject to Federal requirements for submerged land and improvements therein, including a Section 10 permit administered by the U. S. Army Corps of Engineers for any modification of the property. Section 10 of the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899 requires authorization from the Secretary of the Army, acting through the Corps of Engineers, for the construction of any structure in or over any navigable water of the United States. Structures or work outside the limits defined for navigable waters of the United States require a Section 10 permit if the structure or work affects the course, location, or condition of the water body. The law applies to any dredging or disposal of dredged materials, excavation, filling, rechannelization, or any other modification of a navigable water of the United States, and applies to all structures, from the smallest floating dock to the largest commercial undertaking. It further includes, without limitation, any wharf, dolphin, weir, boom breakwater, jetty, groin, bank protection (e.g. riprap, revetment, bulkhead), mooring structures such as pilings, aerial or subaqueous power transmission lines, intake or outfall pipes, permanently moored floating vessel, tunnel, artificial canal, boat ramp, ai ds-to-navigation, and any other permanent, or semi-permanent obstacle or obstruction.
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