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water for future generations                                                                                   November, 2007

“I find that….the King William Reservoir project, along with conservation measures and utilization of groundwater supplies, as well as the inclusion of the wetlands and streams mitigation plan, and the Section 106 Programmatic Agreement, is the least environmentally damaging practicable alternative to meet the public need…”.

                                                                  General Temple, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (July 2005)

With the Record of Decision in July 2005, General Temple, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers ignited the implementation efforts of this important regional water supply project. The reservoir project is more accurately a regional water supply program. The implementation phase will take almost 15 years to complete and includes more than a dozen large projects.


 What's New?   mattaponi river 
 ecological monitoring
 program
The project partners have established an ecological monitoring plan to ensure that the Mattaponi River is not harmed by the proposed water withdrawals needed to supply the reservoir. American Shad spawning is a major concern for this project, and to minimize potential impacts to them, a state-of-the-art screened intake structure with 1-mm openings and an inflow velocity of less than 0.15 feet per second was designed to make certain that shad eggs and larvae are safe. In addition, the project partners will not withdraw water from the Mattaponi River during the height of the spawning season except under extreme drought conditions.  CNU and other agencies currently monitor river quality at several points within the KWR watershed.  Click on the tabs below to view maps of these monitoring sites.
 
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