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BRENT WALLS

BRENT WALLS

Everything flows downstream... Fighting for healthier headwaters of the Potomac from West Virginia to Harpers Ferry.

Shenandoah Riverkeeper

MARK FRONDORF

MARK FRONDORF

Protecting your right to use and enjoy a healthier Shenandoah River.

Potomac Riverkeeper

DEAN NAUJOKS

DEAN NAUJOKS

Restoring the Potomac to create an example for healthy water nationwide.

Despite some progress, the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers still suffer greatly from major pollution insults.

Our unique approach to this problem is to directly engage individuals, corporations, and government bodies who are responsible for pollution.

We identify specific polluters through several proven strategies.
We seek cooperation from polluters in cleaning up.
If polluters refuse to clean up voluntarily, we use our network of attorneys and the Clean Water Act to force them to do so.

Through our attorneys, we also forcefully assert the interests of clean water in critical county and state regulatory processes such as stormwater and agricultural runoff. We are the only non-profit group consistently willing to use hard-hitting legal remedies to stop pollution throughout the watershed. PRKN does the heavy lifting in the battles against pollution!

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You are mostly water.

Your brain is 70% water. Your blood is about 80% water and your lungs are 90% water. Most of the water we bathe in, cook in, and drink – including many well known bottled waters, soft drinks and beer – comes from the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers.

Water pollution puts you and your family’s health at risk.

Even small amounts of some chemicals can be harmful. Many of these chemicals are detectable in the drinking water that comes out of our taps.

Water pollution seriously harms the environment.

From the headwaters of our streams and rivers all the way to and including the Chesapeake Bay, water pollution harms life and has serious economic consequences. It also interferes with fishing, swimming, and other recreational enjoyments.

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Virginia Senate Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee
January 15, 2019
Virginia Senate Agricultural and Natural Resources Committee Richard H. Stuart District 28 Capitol number (804) 698-7528 District number (804) 493-8892 Email: District28@senate.virginia.gov Map: https://www.vpap.org/offices/state-senate-28/redistricting/ Emmett W. Hanger, Jr. District 24 Capitol number (804) 698-7524 District number (540) 885-6898 Email: District24@senate.virginia.gov Map: https://www.vpap.org/offices/state-senate-24/redistricting/ Frank M. Ruff, Jr. District 15
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Maryland Board of Public Works Denies Potomac Pipeline Easement Across State Property
January 2, 2019
In a stunning victory for clean water, the Maryland Board of Public Works today rejected, by unanimous vote, an application by TransCanada for an easement over state property to construct the Potomac Pipeline. Read the press release here.
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Buckingham Deserves the Same Treatment as Mount Vernon
November 20, 2018
Where Dominion’s gas compressor station is concerned, Buckingham deserves the same treatment as Mount Vernon, by Michael Paul Williams in the Richmond Times-Dispatch. Read the article here.
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