Virginia's Watershed Implementation Plan

Local Plans for Restoring Water Quality

The Commonwealth of Virginia asked 96 localities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed to explain how they would reduce nutrient and sediment pollution in their local waters. Plans that have been made publicly available to date are provided below.

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF) will continue to post these local cleanup plans as we receive them so citizens can read them, provide input to their locality, and help establish clean water priorities and goals in their community.

CBF encourages you to review your locality's plan, contact local officials with questions, and urge them to implement the plan.

If you don't see your locality's plan here, it may be because your locality or the state has not made it public.  Contact your locality and ask to see its Bay cleanup plan. If it refuses, ask why. Get involved. Demand clean water.

For more information, contact Chris Moore in Hampton Roads, 757-622-1964, or Ann Jurczyk in Richmond, 804-780-1392.

CENTRAL VIRGINIA

• Greene, Fluvanna, Albermarle, and Charlottesville
• Nelson County
  • Nelson County Submittal Letter (PDF)
  • Nelson County Phase II Staff Report (PDF)

HAMPTON ROADS

• Hampton Roads Regional Planning Framework, Scenario, and Strategies (PDF)
  This document reviews the Hampton Roads Regional Planning District's regional approach to water quality managment.  The document was attached to each of the region's local government strategies.
• City of Chesapeake
  • Supporting Data and Preferred Strategies document available on the City of Chesapeake website.
• City of Hampton
  • Local Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan available on the City of Hampton website.
• City of Virginia Beach
  • Chesapeake Bay TMDL Local Strategy for The City of Virginia Beach (PDF)
• City of Williamsburg
  • Chesapeake Bay TMDL Phase II WIP (PDF)
• James City County
  • Letter to Dept. of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) (PDF)
  • James City County Strategies (PDF)
  • Additional information and resources are available on the James City County Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) web page.
• Newport News
  • Watershed Implementation Plan Phase II (PDF) *This file is 16.3 MB so it may take a while to download.
• Norfolk
  • Summary of the City of Norfolk Response to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL (PDF)
• Suffolk
  • To receive a copy of Suffolk's WIP, please contact L.J. Hansen at the Department of Public Works, 757/514-7687 or lhansen@suffolkva.us.
• Surry County
  • All documents are available on the Surry County website.
• York County
  • Letter to DCR (PDF, 3 pages, 57.44 KB)
  • York County Phase II WIP Scenarios (PDF, 3 pages, 37.11 KB)
  • The following two documents catalog the best management practices (BMPs) currently in use in York County:
    • York County Stormwater Management Facilities (SWMF) Best Management Practices (BMP) (MS Excel)
    • York County Stormwater Management Facilities (SWMF) Site Info (MS Excel)

MIDDLE PENINSULA/NORTHERN NECK

• Gloucester County
  • Letter to DCR (PDF, 10 pages, 172 KB)
• Mathews County
  • Proposed Strategies (PDF, 2 pages, 17 KB)

NORTHERN VIRGINIA

Not Available

SHENANDOAH VALLEY

• Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Commission
  • Letter to DCR (PDF, 3 pages, 57.44 KB)
  • Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) for the Counties of Clarke, Frederick, Page, Shenandoah, and Warren (PDF, 12 pages, 167.70 KB)
  • Northern Shenandoah Valley Regional Phase II WIP Strategy and Resources (MS Excel)
  • Central Shenandoah Planning District Commission WIP II Letter (PDF, 5 pages, 412 KB)
  • Augusta (PDF, 2 pages, 159 KB)
  • Lexington (PDF, 2 pages, 604 KB)
  • Staunton (PDF, 2 pages, 80 KB)
  • Waynesboro (PDF, 8 pages, 223 KB)
• Harrisonburg
  • Presentation on Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load program and VA Department of Conservation and Recreation request. City Council Agenda, January 24, 2012, Agenda Item #8