Fluvanna Powhatan James River meets the Rivanna at the Point of Fork
2011/05/02
2011/04/23
2011/04/19
South of the Tracks
Sec. 10-71. Duty to retain or establish stream buffer.
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this article, any land adjacent to the following listed waters, shall provide buffers for the purposes of retarding runoff, preventing erosion, and filtering nonpoint source pollution from runoff:
(1) Rivanna River;
(2) Moore’s Creek;
(3) Meadow Creek.
(b) A required stream buffer shall be no less than one hundred (100) feet wide on each side of the stream, which buffer
shall be measured horizontally from the top of the stream bank.–CHO Minicode
North of the tracks we are spending millions to restore Meadow Creek. South of the tracks, on Moore’s Creek, the poor man’s creek, is there a mitigation plan, any plan? Put in the new sewer pipe, grind up the trees. That is that?
2011/04/18
e&s
Erosion and sedimentation controls, Moore’s Creek.
I wonder what the run-off volume from this project into the creek was last weekend?
2011/03/30
53 mgd
Tandem Friends School students test Rivanna River water with technical direction and apparatus provided by Rivanna Conservation Society executive director Robbi Savage.
The students canoed to Riverview Park from an undisclosed location on the north fork of the Rivanna.
April 6, 2011, the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors will hear from Rivanna Water and Sewer Authority executive director Tom Frederick about locating a new, fifty-three million gallon per day sewage pumping facility in this park.
If you are a county resident, please communicate with your supervisors about this bad idea. Riverview Park and Darden Towe Park are our community’s only gateways to the Rivanna River. Not good locations for sewage infrastructure.
To petition the Board of Supervisors on this issue click here.
Architect’s rendering of the proposal for the park.
2011/03/08
show of hands
I would like everybody in this room who loves the Rivanna to raise their hand, it's pretty much unanimous...I feel like I am being Jack Jouette again, you've got to save the river--Fran Lawrence
110307Lawrence
2011/02/06
2010/12/10
influent
Tom Frederick of the RWSA and Janice Carroll of Hazen Sawyer confer during slide presentation regarding RWSA’s Rivanna Interceptor Sanitary Sewer Pumping Capacity Improvements.
The Rivanna Pump Station is currently located adjacent to Riverview Park, at the end of Chesapeake Street in the Woolen Mills neighborhood.
Woolen Mills Neighborhood Association president Victoria Dunham summarizes the four pumping station options presented by the RWSA below…
The RWSA has presented four potential options. The new station will have a bigger footprint, but will also need to be taller because the electrical equipment has to be above the 100-year flood level.
Option A leaves the pumping station in roughly the same vicinity, but enlarges it and moves it closer to Bev and Dimi’s house. For the many folks in the neighborhood who have fought the good fight for so many years re odor and eyesore, this is a discouraging option. They say it probably won’t smell this time. but that’s one heck of a gamble for us to take as a neighborhood. Needless to say, this is the cheapest option.
Option B moves the pumping station down into the park. That will necessitate a lot of clearing and a road system into the park to service the station. As the park was always intended to remain as untouched as possible, and this solution would shrink the acreage a bit, this is alarming.
Option C moves the pumping station onto their own property (the main plant), which make a lot of sense. There’s a significant problem with this however, because the RWSA would have to acquire an easement across four properties along E Market St. As a neighborhood, we would need to be absolutely certain that those four neighbors were completely fine with that. (I’m not 100% sure exactly which of the properties would be impacted, but guess it would be from Jon Fink and Roger Voisinet, on down the north side of the street to the old mill property. The pipe would be placed 30ft deep, which is one heck of a trench to be dug in one’s back yard.
Option D moves the pumping station across the river on the opposite bank, which is owned by State Farm. From an environmental justice perspective, this is a sound solution. When one considers the negative quality of life suffered by our neighborhood at the hands of the RWSA over the last 30+ years, this is a mighty tempting option. Needless to say, it’s also the most expensive.
To see RWSA’s powerpoint and learn more visit…
http://www.rivanna.org/pumpstation/index.htm
Past contretemps with byproducts from the RWSA’s service region:
compost
wastewater
biosolids
mother of all outhouses
2010/10/18
Clean water
Rapidan River, near Somerville’s Ford, Virginia.
Audio above, Bob Koroncai speaks at EPA public hearing in RIC, October 6, 2010 regarding detail the EPA hopes the Bay watershed states will provide.
Send a letter to Governor McDonnell, ask the Commonwealth of Virginia to provide adequate pollution diet detail to the EPA.
2010/09/30
rain
I am a weather water streams nerd, product of growing up in the streams, rivers and estuaries of this state, Virginia.
This year, I introduced 80 yearling trees to the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the weather took a xeric turn.
I am so happy to see rain falling.
Good places to observe and quantify precipitation:
Doppler radar storm total.
iMap
Weather Underground personal weather stations
USGS stream flows
To the end that the people have clean air, pure water, and the use and enjoyment for creation of adequate public lands, waters and other natural resources, it shall be the policy of the Commonwealth to conserve, develop and utilize its natural resources, its public lands and its historic sites and buildings.
Further, it shall be the Commonwealth’s policy to protect its atmosphere, lands and waters from pollution, impairment or destruction for the benefit, enjoyment and general welfare of the people of the Commonwealth.–Constitution of Virginia
