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Category: ACP History
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StreamSweepers cleans over 35 miles of the Clinch River, providing summer jobs to 15 young people, and removing over 1,600 tires and over 25 tons of other trash.
The Center launches the Rapidan Institute to focus on comprehensive fisheries and floodplain habitat restoration in the Rapidan and Robinson River watersheds, and the Rapidan Fish Passage Project (RFPP) to restore free flow to the Rapidan River by modifying a dam at the village of Rapidan and reconnect the river’s headwaters with the Chesapeake Bay […]
StreamSweepers launches the Clinch River Clean-Up and cleans over 13 miles of the river, providing summer jobs to 15 young people in Southwest Virginia, and removing over 1,000 tires and over 7 tons of other trash.
StreamSweepers cleans the Rappahannock from Waterloo to Remington and assists Hazel River and Middle River volunteers with comprehensive ecological assessments and light cleaning of those rivers, wrapping up the Rappahannock River Basin Comprehensive Clean-Up. The Clinch River Clean-Up continues its assessment of the river and plans for the launch of a five-year clean-up effort to […]
StreamSweepers cleans 20 miles of the Rappahannock River from Remington to the confluence with the Rapidan and performs an assessment and light cleaning of the Mattaponi River. The Clinch River Clean-Up kicks off an assessment of over 60 miles of the most scenic and bio-diverse river in Virginia.
StreamSweepers completes a final maintenance sweep of the full 100 miles of the Rapidan and Robinson Rivers, performs an assessment and clean-up on the Hughes River, and partners with the NIH/NCI on a multi-year project to test water samples from the Rappahannock watershed for endocrine-disrupting compounds.
The Center launches the Rapidan Blueway project with a group of local river enthusiasts and landowners to explore the feasibility of creating a river trail to enhance river recreational activities such as canoeing, kayaking, and fishing with legal and safe access points.
The Center leases offices in Orange, Virginia.
StreamSweepers program launches as a river clean-up, training and work experience program for college-aged young adults and veterans. The Rappahannock River Basin Comprehensive Clean-Up launches with a 17-mile clean-up of the Rapidan River in Orange County, from the Greene County line to Madison Mills.