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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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Latest Posts

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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Statewide Conservation Groups Call on Northam to Reverse Decision to Replace Air Board Members During Pending Permit Decision
November 16, 2018
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Thursday, Nov. 15 Media Contacts: Claudine McElwain | cmcelwain@selcva.org | 434-977-4090 Lee Francis | lfrancis@valcv.org | 804-225-1902 Kate Addleson | kate.addleson@sierraclub.org | 804-225-9113 Denise Robbins | denise@chesapeakeclimate.org | 240-396-2022 Walton Shepherd | wshepherd@nrdc.org | 804-401-9236 Mary Raferty | mary@vcnva.org | (804) 614-7670 Statewide Conservation Groups Call on Northam to Reverse Decision to Replace Air Board Members During Pending Permit Decision RICHMOND
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Statement on Dominion’s Coal Ash Report
November 16, 2018
Potomac Riverkeeper Network (PRKN) notes, as it predicted, that recycling and landfill disposal are the best solution to the legacy problem of coal ash stored at Dominion Energy’s Possum Point plant in Dumfries, VA. The release of Dominion Energy’s report on coal ash recycling confirms that recycling and landfill disposal is
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Big Springs Filtration Plant & Firefighting Chemical Contamination Upper Potomac

Toxic Wastewater Discharges from Coal Power Plants Potomac River

Clean Water is Under Attack Shenandoah River