Comments on: Fish in Blacks Run

By: Thanh

Thanh — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 17:49:48 +0000

Here’s a cool flash video on Cooks Creek/ Blacks Run TMDLs and improvements by DEQ, http://www.deq.virginia.gov/flash/tmdlimpr.swf

By: sunfish

sunfish — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 19:05:48 +0000

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By: Justin C

Justin C — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 15:16:10 +0000

Thanks Thanh and Billy, great information! It’s very encouraging to hear progress is being made. Maybe this can be used put together an even bigger crowd at next year’s Clean Up Day.

I too would like to know more about what Dave was getting at.

By: Thanh

Thanh — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 21:38:30 +0000

David, I don’t understand your question. Would you mind expanding on that thought?

By: David Miller

David Miller — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:50:19 +0000

So as the waterway approaches the landfill it degrades in water quality or at least the barometric measures of such quality?

By: BillyVW

BillyVW — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:23:08 +0000

You can find raw water quality data (including bacteria numbers) from DEQ’s database at http://gisweb.deq.virginia.gov/monapp/mon_query_form.cfm. However, I just looked at it, and it appears to be a few months behind in updates. The latest bacteria data is from March 2008. I left a message with the database administrator, but he’ll be out until next week.

Select watershed B26R for Blacks Run’s data.