How Healthy Are Our Watersheds?
Ways to Protect Our Watersheds
Stream Buffers
-Riparian Buffer & Rain Garden
-Buffer Handbook
-Sources of native plants
Upper Thornton River Watershed Study
RappFLOW is a member of the Orion Grassroots Network
See maps of the Middle Rush River in RappFLOW's My Watershed Section
Washington Sewage Treatment Plant Permit to Discharge Effluent to Rush River
UPDATES
• TMDL plan for Hazel, Hughes & Rush River watersheds 6/10/08
• Lower Rush Subwatershed Analysis
• Washington wastewater discharge permit approved
June 1
• May 2006 - Issuance
of VPDES Permit No. VA0091651,
Rush River WWTP Rappahannock County (PDF)
• April 2006 - Rush River and
TMDL Monitoring
• April 2006 - RappFLOW
Launches
Spring 2006
Stream Studies
of Rush River
• 3/15/06 Rappahannock News:The
Case for the Rush
- 3/6/06 Rappahannock News: Friends
of the
Rush River Brainstorm
• Public
Notice for Public Hearing
/28/06 (PDF)
• Public Hearing Letter
to Citizens (PDF)
• 2/4/06 - Friends of the Rush River Question Town of Washington Sewage Plan
The Town of Washington's application for a permit to discharge 60,000 gallons of treated wastewater effluent into the Rush River was approved on June 1 by a unanimous vote of the State Water Control Board.
During the months preceding this decision, many citizens became involved in discussion and research on many topics such as the condition of the Rush River, the nature of waste water effluent, the DEQ permitting process, water quality parameters of concern, and monitoring of the Rush. RappFLOW has assembled much of this information and attempts to make it easily accessible on this web site. Much of the information is also available in paper files at the RappFLOW headquarters in Sperryville.
RappFLOW volunteers started monitoring water quality at 13 sites along the Rush River and its tributaries in April 2006. We will be posting the data in the “My Watershed” sections of this website.