Friends of Stafford Creeks Nonprofit organization of volunteer citizen scientists monitoring water quality, advocating sustainable land use policies and watershed protection, and promoting education and stewardship of aquatic and wildlife resources in Stafford County Virginia's Potomac River tributaries

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View Friends of Stafford Creeks monitoring map and soon-to-be-posted water quality monitoring results. We have been testing some creek areas of the Potomac Watershed since 2002.

Starting in August of 2011, developers will have to monitor the discharge from their sites for turbidity.  Hopefully this new EPA rule will help clean up Stafford’s waters. Here is the link to read more.

Conservation easements protect land permanently from development.  Virginia awards  tax credits to donors, making Virginia’s program the most successful in the nation.  Taxpayers are footing the bill for these credits.  Here is a story of one donor who was reined in by tax authorities after claiming an inflated appraisal and tax credit value.

 Stafford County has recently had three sewerage spills. On June 29, 2010, a break in a force main dumped 26,500 gallons into Aquia Harbour community. On 5/20/2009 a spill estimated at 23,000 gallons entered Aquia Creek, Austin Run, and backyards of neighbors. On August 22, 2009, approximate 2.5 million gallons flowed into Austin Run and Aquia Creek due to an equipment and then a software error. Stafford County agreed to pay a $54,000 fine for two of the spills. What's going on here?

The Stafford Board of Supervisors nullified the Potomac River Resource Protection Overlay on February 10, 2010. It appears that the Stafford legal staff again failed to initiate and advertise the legislation properly. This is not the first time this has happened. Read the story here.