Upcoming RappFLOW Events and Activities

News

Avon Hall Pond Watershed project gets green light from Soil & Water District for converting "Turf to Natives." Press release soon...

RappFLOW will be joining heads with The Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries' Lou Verner on Monday, December 17, 2013, to assess the health of the Avon Hall Pond in Little Washington, Virginia. An expert on ponds and wetlands, Lou Verner will give us his professional opinion on what we can do to bring the Avon Hall Pond back to life. We have laid the groundwork for a project to restore the health of the pond, and Lou is going to help fill in any gaps, and advise us on the best way to achieve our plan of action.

Rappahannock Rappidan Regional Commission, Land Use and Environment Committee. RappFLOW participates in the regional Land Use and Environment Committee at the Rappahannock Rapidan Regional Commission. Click here for minutes from August 2012.

Report on Water Temperature Study for Thornton and Rush Rivers

2010 Native Brook Trout Restoration Project.  With Trout Unlimited, PEC, and other conservation groups, RappFLOW is launching an initiative to engage landowners in restoring the quality of water in their streams to the high level required by native brook trout.  The water in these streams must be especially clean and cold. 
[MAP OF RESTORATION AREA] 
[MORE INFO]

12/18/08 In Ways to Protect Our Watershed:

• Rain Gardens
• Understanding Nutrients and the Environment
• Pond Management

12/5/08 Read Report on Watershed Assessment

10/23/08 Report Card on County Watersheds

8/18/08 RappFLOW Announces New Officers and Directors

8/14/08 GIS interns map county's watersheds

7/26/08 Virginia Legislature Commends Community Watershed Organizations

6/10/08 TMDL plan for Hazel, Hughes & Rush River watersheds

1/7/08 Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors adopts proposed Stormwater Management Ordinance.

Health of the Bay Declines 2007

• County Announces "Clean Streams Programs." John W. McCarthy announced that Rappahannock County is initiating several new programs to protect the quality of surface water in the county’s streams, ponds and rivers. More info

• Good news!  Thornton River De-listed as "Impaired" by DEQ

Tire removal project in the Rappahannock River, article by Terri Diley 7/17/07

Site last updated: 3/30/13

Announcements

February 2012 Report on Brook Trout Water Temperature Study

New RappFLOW Board of Directors Elected 2012
http://www.rappflow.org/about/bod.html

April 10, 2010: The 2010 Virginia General Assembly passed bills designating segments of the Hughes and Jordan Rivers in Rappahannock County as State Scenic Rivers. There will be a major event in Richmond on Friday April 23 with Gov. McDonnell to celebrate the Scenic Rivers program and to honor those who helped create and sustain the program. For more info, contact Hal@rappahannock.com.

Supervisors support Scenic River effort
See letter from County Administrator
John McCarthy to Virginia Dept. of
Conservation and Recreation

Planning Commission Commends RappFLOW
The County Planning Commission at its May 16, 2007 meeting voted unanimously to commend RappFLOW for its work to protect our watersheds.
Click here for RappFLOW's report to the Commission.

• Apply Now! Cost-sharing for your stream buffer vegetation improvements

• VA DEQ honors request for Rush River Monitoring
Last December, RappFLOW wrote a formal request to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, requesting that the DEQ provide additional water quality monitoring downstream of the town of Washington on the Rush River. On April 30, we received a letter stating that the DEQ will honor our request. This request was based on the desire of landowners on the Rush River to have water quality monitoring in place before the town starts to discharge effluent from a new wastewater treatment plant into the Rush River.

• Impaired streams study final results from VA DEQ March 22, 2007

"My Watershed" Section

To help you in understanding and protecting YOUR watershed, and to help neighbors work together on their local subwatersheds, RappFLOW has created a section called “My Watershed."Can you find YOUR watershed here?  Notice that there are several different maps available for each watershed, plus even more for the Upper Thornton, which is our current grant-funded study area. Read more about it!

Rappahannock County Water Quality Advisory Committee

WQAC Minutes

More RappFLOW Activities

Current RappFLOW project: "People, Land and Water of the Upper Thornton River Watershed"