Three years ago I put my kayak into Powells Creek at Leesylvania SP looking forward to a leisurely paddle. I hadn't gone a hundred yards upstream before I heard the angry growl of a bulldozer tearing up the earth for a new development on the banks of the Potomac River. A week later I read in the paper that an angler fishing at Dogue Creek a couple miles upstream had reeled in dozens of snakefish. Dogue Creek may well have been despoiled by someone who lives in one of the many new developments that have cropped up along Route 1 nearby. This realization and the awful prospect of further despoliation of the Potomac and its tributaries made me dedicate myself to the Green Party of Virginia.

I want to put a stop to the gross development along Virginia's waterways. As a first step, I support Shenandoah Riverkeeper and Potomac Riverkeeper’s efforts to change the Construction General Permit to require that Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plans (SWPPPs) are available to the public for every constructions site in the Commonwealth.