Snow and freezing temperatures in January and February delayed work this year, but surveyors have begun work, with landowner notification. Additional real estate research work completed retrieving plats and deeds of properties near the dam to better gauge property boundaries. New mapping prepared. Individual landowner meetings will be scheduled beginning last week of April. Project […]
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Category: RFPP Project Timeline
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) awards $7.9 million for passage and river restoration to American Climate Partners. The Rapidan Institute holds a Fall community outreach and listening session on the Rapidan Fish Passage Project.
American Climate Partners (formerly Center for Natural Capital) creates ACP Realty Holdings, LLC. With the support of Virginia residents Don King, Mark and Ann Kington, David and Elizabeth Perdue, JB Birdsall, Montgomery Gingery, Tommy Hill, John MacFarlane, Al Weed, and Michael Collins — ACP purchases the Rapidan Mill dam and associated real estate in Culpeper […]
Rapidan Mill Dam Mitigation Bank Prospectus submitted to Interagency Review Team (IRT) of Corps of Engineers. Rapidan Institute tests three-year project on construction and maintenance of what is believed to be first Beaver Dam Analogues in Virginia near the Town of Marshall.
Center for Natural Capital with the support of donors, completed Phase I Due Diligence investigations and reports. Phase I sediment study completed revealing only Vanadium as element of concern. Professional Geologist hired to determine source is naturally occurring from bedrock in the area.
Rapidan Institute studies options to create fish passage and makes a preliminary determination that dam alteration is likely the only option for fish passage that doesn’t involve maintenance. Center for Natural Capital works with Mill Owners Robert and Kevin O’Brien to complete Phase I Rapidan Milling Company Office renovation. Conference room HVAC added. Office […]
Center for Natural Capital creates the Rapidan Institute (RI) to bring innovation and climate restoration related programming to Southern rivers conservation. Efforts begin to explore alteration or removal of the Rapidan Mill dam as a nationally significant fish passage project according to American Rivers, a nonprofit that has been at the forefront of protecting and […]
StreamSweepers holds fundraiser in Rapidan Mill Industrial Center. Center for Natural Capital begins discussions with Robert and Kevin O’Brien, former Owners of Rapidan Mill, to move HQ to Rapidan.