Rapidan Institute studies options to create fish passage and Rapidan 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 moves to Rapidan Mill. Rapidan Fish Passage Project (RFPP) is launched with a goal to reconnect the Rapidan River headwaters with the Atlantic Ocean, and once again share the river with American Shad, our “Founding Fish” (The Founding Fish, John McPhee, 2002), and related species. Center for Natural Capital signs a Memorandum of Agreement with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources to restore fish passage at Rapidan. Explorations begin to determine the most feasible strategy for achieving the goal. Phase I sediment study completed revealing only Vanadium as element of concern.