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IT’S TIME FOR YOUR INPUT – PLEASE ANSWER!

Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on March 27, 2013

IMPORTANT QUESTION FOR YOU! As we get ready to set priorities for KLPW for this year’s
outdoor season, what are some of the projects, issues, complaints and accomplishments you would like to see addressed by the park officials who run the Virginia State Parks, the North Carolina
State Recreation Areas and the US Army Corps of Engineers Parks around Kerr Lake?

If you don’t want to post publicly, we would very much like to see your response, which …

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Posted in: KLPW - Campground Facilities and Improvements, KLPW - MAIN NEWS

URANIUM ISSUE…Sleeping…But Not Dead

Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on February 22, 2013

Radio advertising AGAINST and now FOR allowing Uranium mining in Virginia is blaring out all over the state as forces on
both sides refuse to give in on whether Governor Bob McDonnell should sidestep the Virginia legislature and move to allow mining the radioactive material at Coles Hill.

KLPW is watching the issue intensely because of the huge impact such mining could potentially have on the John H Kerr Reservoir and ultimately on lake and park users. Within the last few
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Posted in: KLPW - Uranium Mining Upstream from Kerr Lake, KLPW - WATER RELATED

NO PARTY YET! Virginia Senate Panel Kills Consideration of Lifting Uranium Mining Ban – Governor Now Considering

Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on February 2, 2013

Kerr Lake Park Watch is refraining from rejoicing about a Virginia State Senate panel dumping legislation to lift the ban on Uranium mining at Coles
Hill near Chatham, Virginia. “The problem is that while everyone is celebrating about that Senate panel saying no, politics has shifted the decision and maybe even the power to lift the Uranium
mining ban in Virginia to the Governor,” said Kerr Lake Park Watch Public Affairs Lead, Frank Timberlake.
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Posted in: KLPW - MAIN NEWS, KLPW - Uranium Mining Upstream from Kerr Lake, KLPW - WATER RELATED

RAINS COMING DOWN BRING KERR LAKE LEVEL UP!

Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on January 21, 2013

Kerr Lake levels have been improving due to upstream rainfall. Today’s
lake level was reported at 302 feet above sea level or two feet above normal pool.

At the end of the week, the US Army Corps of Engineers sent information to Kerr Lake Park Watch about dramatic increases that were discussed and forecast in a
meeting of stakeholders earlier in the week.

“Drought conditions/operations at John H Kerr were dramatically overcome this …

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Posted in: KLPW - US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, KLPW - WATER RELATED, KLPW - Water Safety

NERVES RISE WITH WATERS OF CREEK NEAR FLOOD STAGE AT COLES HILL PROPOSED URANIUM MINING SITE

Posted by KerrLakeParkWatch on January 15, 2013

A creek near flood stage in Piedmont Virginia near a proposed Uranium mining site today brought an emphatic and impassioned demand for the US Army
Corps of Engineers to take a position on proposed Uranium mining upstream from Kerr Lake. That request came Roanoke River Basin Association leader, Gene Addesso, Vice
President and acting President, as he told the group on the weekly meeting/call of the USACE Wilmington District Water Management Stakeholders that previous contact with the Corps has
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Posted in: KLPW - MAIN NEWS, KLPW - Uranium Mining Upstream from Kerr Lake, KLPW - US ARMY CORPS OF ENGINEERS, KLPW - WATER RELATED