Planning Commission Moves to Limit Public Participation
Open Letter from the Jefferson County Foundation Recently the Jefferson county planning commission has move to limit public participation in...
Activities and Events Survey
Please consider responding to our 2025 Activities and Events Survey as we plan for this year and beyond. We will...
Enjoying Abrams Creek, a Tributary of Opequon Creek
On a gorgeous September morning, a group of about 20 people joined TOW on a walk in the Abrams Creek Wetlands Preserve in the city of Winchester. Standing by the sign for the city’s first nature preserve on its 20th anniversary, leader Woody Bousquet described the green heron that became the icon for the preserve and showed brochures about the area.
Illicit Discharge Contaminating Opequon Creek
Since the second week of December 2021, a petroleum-based contaminant has been entering an unnamed tributary of Eagle Run. The...
Raw Sewage and Drilling Mud Inundate Stream on Needy Road, Tributary to the Opequon
Journal Jump to Section Friday, May 28, 2021 Friday, June 4, 2021 Monday, June 7, 2021 Tuesday, June 8, 2021...
Video Journal: Intro to Illegal Dumping in Specks Run
During the first week of September, 2020, the week before Labor Day, construction slurry from a Dominion Energy fiber-optic drilling...
Video Journal: Specks Run Cleanup Monitoring
The Downstream Project’s Bill Howard returned to Specks Run to monitor the cleanup project.
Open Forum: The Clean Water Act and You
J. Stephen Bauserman November 3, 2020 reprinted from the Winchester Star In October, the Clean Water Act turned 40 years...
Illegal Dumping in Specks Run Threatens Opequon Creek
During the first week of September, 2020, the week before Labor Day, construction slurry from a Dominion Energy fiber-optic drilling...
Video Journal: Specks Run Initial Site Visit
Specks Run was filled with construction drilling mud from illegal dumping from a Dominion Energy project in Virginia.
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