Duke Power’s plans for a fossil fuel-burning plant at Foster Falls will be opposed by FORVA unless plans include an effort to recycle cooling water. Recycling water within a closed system rather than allowing it to evaporate reduces the amount of water taken from the river. It was moved and seconded that FFV send a letter requesting a public hearing on Foster Falls.

In the planning stage is an Old Dominion power plant near Remington that will use water from a waste treatment plant.

For members’ perusal were copies of a Canoe Cruisers newsletter outlining their efforts to preserve areas around the Potomac Falls and a Nature Conservancy report outlining the inroads of an invasive plant called the phragmites australis.

VDOT is proposing an interstate-grade bridge crossing of the Rappahannock River just below the confluence. While not a 'raging whitewater' section, this is a remote wilderness setting that many of us value just as much. The usual claim is being made that this crossing is the 'only' way to reduce congestion.

God know folks, we can put highways anywhere but once a river is gone, it's gone forever. We can't relocate a river. This bridge will transform forever the River.

VDOT is accepting ONLINE comments on this harmful proposal. You gotta wade through a bunch of 'leading' questions but you can focus on your own concerns at the bottom.

The link is: http://www.vdot.state.va.us/
proj/fred/outerconn/outer_comment601.
htm.

If you want to learn more about the project and see a map go to this link: