Virginia Regulatory Town Hall
Agency
Department of Environmental Quality
 
Board
State Water Control Board
 
Guidance Document Change: This guidance document has been developed to assist local government and associated stakeholders with applying the policies and procedures related to submitting regional water supply plans in accordance with the Local and Regional Water Supply Planning regulation (9VAC25-780).
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10/8/25  12:00 pm
Commenter: Michelle Edwards, Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission

Lack of Actual Guidance
 

DEQ's Regional Water Supply Planning Guidance Document provides very little actual guidance. It is mainly a collection of quotes from the regulations. At times, that much is not even provided, and instead, users are only given a reference to the regulations, as if RPUs are not aware they exist. I had hoped to see a plain English step-by-step guide with suggestions that incorporates all the other documents and spreadsheets into a coherent process. This feels more like box-checking to rush the document out to meet a deadline. Overall, we have found this guidance document to be of very little help to our regional planning process, and I strongly urge DEQ to overhaul it, preferably with input from the RPUs.

 

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