Blue Ridge Country Magazine / Mountain Report
By Cathryn McCue
January/February, 2012
The Virginia Update features StreamWatch’s Land Use Study. Read more here.
Outdoors: Rivanna basin streams fail standards
By Jim Brewer / Daily Progress outdoors columnist
January 12, 2012
Looks like we’ve got trouble in River City: The river being the Rivanna and the city being Charlottesville, along with Albemarle and nearby counties.
StreamWatch on WINA News
WINA Morning News / Jane Foy
December 13, 2011
StreamWatch Director Rose Brown, interviewed by Jane Foy on WINA. Listen here.
StreamWatch: More Stream Pollution On The Way
Fluvanna Review
October 26, 2011
The environmental monitoring organization StreamWatch has released a study showing that development and deforestation dramatically impact the biological health of rural and semi-rural streams.
Stream Quality and Land Use Study
Virginia Water Central News Grouper
October 19, 2011
In October, Streamwatch – a water-quality-monitoring organization in the Rivanna River watershed – released “Land Use and Stream Health in the Rivanna Basin, 2007-2009,” a two-year study of water-quality and stream-habitat conditions at 51 stream sites and of land uses around the sites.
Streamwatch Releases New Data on Rivanna River Watershed
By Ed Sykes / NBC 29
October 16, 2011
A community stream monitoring group, Streamwatch, released new data on the health of the Rivanna River Watershed on Sunday. We now know exactly how development affects the quality of our waterways, and it’s not quite a pretty picture.
Most Rivanna Basin Streams Impaired
By Brandon Shulleeta / Daily Progress
October 15, 2011
A new study piles on evidence that many streams in the Rivanna River Basin are in bad health, and much of the water degradation has to do with how the surrounding land is being used.
The Rivanna Rambler
06/19/2008, 4/24/2008, 2/21/2008
BY LESLIE MIDDLETON
Learn about some StreamWatch activities and become an informed citizen of your watershed with “The Rivanna Rambler.” Read transcripts or listen to past shows: Love Them Bugs, The Right River Shoes for the Job, Winter Stoneflies Equal Good Water.
The unusual suspects
Excerpt from C-VILLE Issue #19.25
06/19/2007 – 06/25/2007
BY C-VILLE WEEKLY WRITERS
John Murphy’s big concern is sediment. “When the landscape around a river or stream is disturbed, the stream morphology changes,” Murphy explains while knee-deep in the Doyles River, just outside White Hall. “An affected river becomes less efficient at moving sediment, and more sediment in the water changes the biological makeup of the river.” Moments later, as if to illustrate his point, he plunges his hand into the river and plucks out a dead fish. “Madtom,” he says.
Let it Flow
After nearly three centuries of human progress dirtied the Rivanna, local groups are trying to clean up Jefferson’s river
BY JAYSON WHITEHEAD
C’Ville Issue 05/08/2007 – 05/14/2007