KERR LAKE PARK WATCH takes on some of the tough issues. In less than 4 years we’ve grown to almost 400 MEMBERS!
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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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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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 …
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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Unfortunately, it seems that it’s gotten down to someone has to do something drastic to make media headlines or lead stories lately, but Kerr
Lake as an entity unto itself, is holding up three watery fingers that aren’t as watery as they used to be and saying, “help me with Hydrilla, get me more water and don’t let them slip
uranium waste into me. Oh, and if you get a chance, please check my PCP levels, they’re …
