08/17/2021
Urgent!!
URGENT! TAKE ACTION NOW!!!
Action 1: Easy link to retweet https://tinyurl.com/SaveRVwater or Tweet - Mountain Valley Pipeline is preparing to blast through an aquifer below the headwaters for the Spring Hollow Reservoir watershed. Demand a qualified hydrologist assess the risk to suspend permit to blast until an investigation is finished.
Action 2: Email - Send emails to the people below subject: Emergency request to suspend Mountain Valley Pipeline blasting permit for Bent Mountain.
The following in the body of the email:
Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) currently doesn’t have a permit to be able to cross water bodies. It appears that MVP is ignoring the evidence that they are about to blast through an aquifer. This section of Bent Mountain contains the headwaters for the Spring Hollow Reservoir, built in 1996 to provide water security for the Roanoke Valley. Spring Hollow Reservoir is 158 acres holding 3.3 billion gallons of water and is a side-stream reservoir dependent on the tributaries to the Roanoke River. The cost was $73 million dollars to build it. Considering the high stakes at risk it’s reasonable to pause blasting in this area until an investigation can be conducted on site by a qualified hydrologist. The investigation must include an assessment of potential impacts to the watershed for the Spring Hollow Reservoir.
Contact by BCC: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected]
or personalize
Brian Moran, VA Secretary of Public Safety and Homeland Security - [email protected]
Laurence Starfield, Acting Assistant Administrator for the Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance, EPA - [email protected]
Mark Pollins, Director, Water Enforcement Division, EPA - [email protected]
Matt Strickler, Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources and Chief Resilience Officer for the Commonwealth of Virginia - [email protected]
Melanie Davenport, Director of the Water Permitting Division, Virginia DEQ - [email protected]
David Paylor, Director of Virginia DEQ - [email protected]
Senator Chap Petersen - [email protected]
Delegate Wendy Gooditis - [email protected]
Delegate Ken Plum - [email protected]
Want more info then read these and consider attaching them to your email: https://docs.google.com/document/d/18Dge08ujGK_gRgNuiBDhY5mPjJAcQxyZcbKeefInlKc/edit?usp=sharing
and
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1LQdQxofvzcoZmWn1ALvq0Ef6BMNgpUiX2cLlyydXHHE/edit?usp=sharing
