Bi-Annual Walton Tract Clean-Up
Help us to keep the Cowpasture River and the surrounding area clean. Join us for our bi-annual Walton Tract Clean-Up.
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The River Runs – Spring 2018
Our Spring 2018 edition of The River Runs is now available online. This edition of our quarterly newsletter features a note from our President, Dick Brooks, our first Member Profile by our CRPA Executive Assistant, Lynne Griffith, highlighting Kent and Ellen Ford, some of the most faithful and longest serving members of the Cowpasture River Preservation Association. The newsletter also features details about our new affiliation with the Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance, Dominion Pipeline Monitoring Coalition and other groups to form the Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI).
continue readingThreats to Water Quality from Mountain Valley Pipeline and Atlantic Coast Pipeline Water Crossings in Virginia
This report assesses threats and likely impacts to waterbodies in Virginia during the construction and operation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline (ACP) and Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP), two large natural gas pipelines that, as proposed, would cross rivers and streams over 1,000 times in Virginia. Specifically, this report focuses on erosion and sedimentation threats, as well as threats to drinking water supplies for cities like Norfolk and Roanoke, trout streams, minority communities like Emporia and Franklin, the Chesapeake Bay, and wetlands like the Great Dismal Swamp.
continue readingThe Seven Steps of Incident Investigation In the Event the Pipeline Goes Forward
The Allegheny-Blue Ridge Alliance and member organizations (Including the Cowpasture River Preservation Association) have developed a Pipeline Compliance Surveillance Initiative (CSI) to support citizen efforts to ensure strict application of environmental laws and regulations in the event the pipeline goes forward.
continue readingBlack Bear Cooling Off in a Livestock Watering Tank
A Black Bear Cooling Off in a Livestock Watering Tank in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana.
continue readingConstruction of Atlantic Coast Pipeline will destroy lands, endanger state’s waters
Construction of Atlantic Coast Pipeline will destroy lands, endanger state’s waters.
continue readingWest Virginia Revokes Approval Of Mountain Valley Pipeline As Legal Terrain Shifts
West Virginia’s Department of Environmental Protection revoked its previous approval of the Mountain Valley Pipeline.
continue readingWT4 Field Trip: “Explore Riparian Buffer Areas” (October 13, 2017 — 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 noon)
Join John Cowden, the owner of Fort Lewis Lodge, and John Wright, Area Forester from the Virginia Department of Forestry, as you tour sections of the Fort Lewis Lodge property where these riparian buffer areas have been put into place as part of the Conservation Reserve Enhancement Program (CREP).
continue readingVA Stream Cleanups
Celebrate National Public Lands Day and help keep Virginia’s waterways cleaner.
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