Watershed Initiatives

PEC does extensive work assessing, monitoring, and protecting the Piedmont's watersheds.

Cultivating Watershed Stewardship in Loudoun County, Virginia

In 2004, PEC initiated a highly successful program in Purcellville, Virginia that fosters watershed stewardship by empowering students to improve local water quality and wetland habitats.

Sep 16: Hazel River Watershed Clean-Up Forum

(Culpeper, Madison, Rappahannock) Attend this public meeting to learn about upcoming initiatives to reduce fecal coliform and e. coli bacteria in certain segments of the Hazel, Hughes and Rush Rivers in Culpeper, Rappahannock, and Madison Counties.

Streamwatch Issues 2008 Report

This new report assesses the biological health at 31 representative sites in the Rivanna River watershed based on three years of data ending in fall 2007, and finds that 3/4 of representative stream sites failed the Virginia aquatic life quality standard.