Beaverdam Reservoir update....
Ernie
http://www.change.org/petitions/scott-york-allow-continued-access-of-beaver-dam-reservoir-for-the-public?utm_source=supporter_message&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=supporter_message
And if you are able to attend, there is a Loudoun Water- Beaverdam Reservoir Community Meeting on Wednesday, July 30 from 7-9:30 pm.
Stone Hill Middle School
23415 Evergreen Ridge Dr., Ashburn
Thanks!
Ernie
Matt S.
Ernie
Ernie
Ernie
MANY thanks to TPFR for your participation. I am hopeful that it will help.
Ernie
Ernie
The meeting went well but we must remember that we are dealing with a monopoly. That is how they think and act.
Lots of people showed up...more than normally attend a LoCo Board of Supervisors meeting. This was definitely noticed.
In attendance: 2 LoCo Supervisors, a rep from the Chairman's office, the former chair of DGIF, members (20+) of the Stone Bridge rowing team, a LoWa board member and 50 or so great citizens of Loudoun.
Many great comments were made as well as many questions (which they could not answer).
LoWa was unprepared for the quality of constituent that was in attendance. We were informed and armed with great info. They kept taking about teenagers swimming, gangs and graffiti. They focused on the bad...which will ahppen if no one is around anyway.
I don't know if we changed anything but the pressure was definitely on them. The LoCo BOS is also going to keep the pressure on as they were impressed with the passion we have for this great resource.
We will update on any future meetings....lots still needs to be done.
Matt S.
I find it interesting that they focused on gangs, teenage swimmers, and graffiti. Their initial statements to the press made it sound like this was all about public safety and repairs to critical county infrastructure. I assumed that the repairs to infrastructure created new presumed and overblown threats to public safety, and they were closing the area for a few years, which was bad enough. But here it sounds suspiciously like they just plan to keep teenage swimmers, dog walkers, gangs, picnickers, fisherman, kayakers, bikers, joggers, and other miscreant riffraff out of the area, permanently. I hope that is not true and/or they are not successful. Meanwhile it's kind of depressing, except for the part about how you and all these people showed up to represent some common sense.