The Natural Resources Committee monitors and speaks out on local environmental issues as stated in the LWV C/A Local Positions (2010-11). We support the 50-year Local Water Supply Plan. Key Elements of the Plan are:
1. Replace the existing unsafe Ragged Mountain dam with a new dam and raise the reservoir pool level initially by 30 feet and to a total of 42 feet as demand requires.
2. Replace the 85-year old Sugar Hollow Pipeline with a newer, shorter pipeline connecting the South Fork Rivanna Reservoir with the Ragged Mountain Reservoir and the two corresponding treatment plants. Can be used to transfer water from South Fork to Ragged Mountain during wet periods or from Ragged Mountain back to the larger South Fork Treatment Plant during dry periods.
3. Upgrade and expand water treatment plants.
4. Provide enough water storage to get us through drought for the next 50 years.
Three documents are presented here in support of this plan:
(1) LWV C/A Water Statement by 2009 LWV C/A President Marge Cox supporting the Water Supply Plan;
(2) League Notes on Approved Community Water Supply Plan; and
(3) History of the Community Water Supply Planning Process.
For further information, email: Liz Palmer
With funds from the LWV Education Fund, the NR Committee has three current publications:
Groundwater: Our Unprotected Resource
For archived letters and other materials concerning the Natural Resources Committee, contact the League office: (434) 970-1707.
The Natural Resources Committee holds monthly meetings on the second Thursday of the month,
from 4:30 to 6:00 pm, at the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, located in the Boar's Head Inn
complex off Ivy Rd. (see Calendar for this month's meeting date). For further information about this committee, contact email: Linda Goodling
