Issues Facing Virginia

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Virginia's Path to Clean Water

A guide for public officials and residents to keeping Virginia on course to fully restoring its waterways.

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Virginia's Agricultural Cost-Share Program

Virginia's Agricultural Cost-Share Program provides financial and technical support to farmers to implement farm conservation projects.

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Atlantic Coast Natural Gas Pipeline

The proposed Atlantic Coast Pipeline would span more than 600 miles through Virginia, West Virginia and North Carolina. The planned route crosses Virginia waterways more than a thousand times, including many streams, rivers, and wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

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Fones Cliffs

Fones Cliffs defines a stretch of the Rappahannock River of immense environmental and historical significance and serves as a key hot spot for bald eagles. But the area is also the site of an enormous controversial proposed development.

Slowing the Flow: A Major Transformation in Waynesboro

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Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund

Virginia's Stormwater Local Assistance Fund provides matching grants to help localities install efficient and effective pollution-control measures.

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Atlantic Menhaden

Menhaden, Brevoortia tyrannus, are small, nutrient-packed fish that are central to the Chesapeake Bay's food chain and support one of the largest commercial fisheries on the Atlantic coast. As a result of their environmental and economic importance, management of the menhaden fishery is a political flashpoint across the region.

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Agriculture

What role do farms and agricultural production play in the health of our waters?

Carrie B. Grisham

Blue Crabs

The blue crab is one of the more resilient of Chesapeake species, but its fate depends on many factors.

Troy Wenger

Climate Change

How warmer waters and temps experienced across the globe are impacting us on a local level?

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Land Use

When the watershed's land suffers from pollution and poor management, so too does the water.

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Polluted Runoff

Polluted runoff is one of the most harmful sources of pollution to the Bay and its waters.

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Sea Level Rise

Cities and towns near the Chesapeake Bay are facing a major threat from sea level rise. The good news is that nature-based solutions can help us adapt to recurrent flooding.