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better protection from any future land development projects;
• enhance its erosion and sediment control programs;
• promote septic system maintenance and offer costshare for septic system pumping and repairs to selected areas;
• sponsor public seminars and workshops on many aspects of water quality protection.
Partners in this initiative include the Culpeper Soil and Water Conservation District and RappFLOW, our local volunteer-based watershed protection group. There are many ways in which individual residents and landowners can participate in this initiative. For example, they can learn about the draft storm water ordinance before it comes up for public hearing, so they will be well informed to assist in the political process. Local volunteers are working with government officials and a professional contractor, Timmons, to craft an ordinance uniquely suited to our rural watersheds. RappFLOW’s Stream
Buffer Restoration
Program
RappFLOW, our local volunteer-based watershed protection group, is creating a new kind of program to assist residential and commercial landowners to protect their streams by protecting and restoring the vegetation along the streams. While the state and federal governments have long provided cost-sharing for agricultural landowners, there has not been a program to help non-agricultural landowners reduce the nutrients, sediments, and other pollutants entering the streams. This pilot program, led by Tim Bondelid of Woodville, depends primarily on volunteers who will work with a landowner to accomplish such tasks as assessing the site, removing invasive species, planting trees, shrubs and native grasses.
Volunteer Stream
Monitoring
State agencies do not have the funding needed to monitor water quality in our many streams, In fact, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality monitors only about five locations in our entire County. This year, under the leadership of Christina Loock, a renewed volunteer stream monitoring program is underway. RappFLOW received a small grant from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality to purchase equipment and supplies to support this effort, and the Culpeper Soil & Water Conservation District provides training for the volunteers.
CREP Cost-sharing: The Last Opportunity
Year
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