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which provides compensation for crops for which crop insurance is not available.
In yet a third Monday drought event, Congressman Frank R. Wolf (R-Va-10) issued a release regarding an Aug. 2 press conference on the Mid-Atlantic Drought in which he participated with the US Geological Survey. In addition to noting the Glickman disaster designation reported above, Rep. Wolf reported that “Governor Gilmore is in the process of making a request to Secretary Glickman for a disaster declaration for 19 counties in Virginia, including Page, Warren and Rappahannock.”
According to the Farm Service Agency however, the process for Rappahannock will commence when the county resolution is received, and that will kick-off a process that may take weeks to complete.
Meanwhile, though the National Weather Service is still projected a slightly wetter than average August, water supplies in the region are at record low levels, and experts are beginning to see the current drought as the worst in years. According to USGS Chief Hydrologist Bob Hirsh, “The compounding effect of dry years— one after another—is building to what may be the worst period of drought of this century.”
Judging from climatological data reviewed from the mid-Seventeenth Century, this may become the worst drought, not only of this century, but in recorded Virginia history.
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