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FOR’s Advocacy Efforts for a Healthy Rappahannock
Ensuring Environmentally Friendly Policy for The Rappahannock River
Friends of the Rappahannock works at the local, state, and federal level to ensure environmentally friendly policy for the Rappahannock River.
This includes a wide range of programs, issues, and campaigns that takes us across the watershed and beyond.
2025 General Assembly
Join us as a strong voice for the Rappahannock River at the state level.
- Review and comment of local ordinances, comprehensive plans, general development plans, permits, and more.
- Active presence at the Virginia General Assembly fighting for continued funding for clean water programs, agricultural and stormwater best management practice funding, living shoreline program development, fishery protection, and a variety of other issues.
- Federal advocacy to maintain a strong Chesapeake Bay Program and associated agency funding at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA), National Park Service, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and more. Federal advocacy to protect the Clean Water Act and other federal regulations that impact the Rappahannock River.
- Membership and participation in regional advocacy partnerships with the Virginia Conservation Network (VCN) and Choose Clean Water Coalition (CCWC).
- Annual leader at Virginia Conservation Lobby Day and Bay Day on the Hill.
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Advocacy In The News
City of Fredericksburg – Technology Overlay District
Update as of 01/13/2025: On January 7th the City of Fredericksburg posted a document outlining the proposed amendments to the Unified Development Ordinance (UDO) and Comprehensive Plan related to Technology Overlay District (TOD). City Council will have to...
Caroline County Water Withdrawal Open Comment
UPDATED: NOV. 21, 2024 Last week the Caroline County Board of Supervisors announced they were removing the request for industrial cooling water from their permit application to withdraw water from the Rappahannock River. This follows the announcement from DEQ that the...
Drought Advisory Announced –What does it mean for the Rappahannock River?
Last week, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (VA DEQ) and the Virginia Drought Monitoring Task Force expanded the drought advisory to 42 additional counties, many of which reside in the central Virginia region. While recent showers over the last few...