Please see below (after the transcript and show notes) for links to news and upcoming events.
TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of May 14, 2012.
This week, we feature the May 9, 2012, start of a 42-day,
400-mile walk across Virginia to explore the Commonwealth’s water resources and
meet people working to protect them. Have
a listen for about three minutes.
MUSIC AND SOUNDS - ABOUT 3:22.
Laurel
plans to reach Northampton County’s Hog Island and the Atlantic Ocean on June
19. You can follow her walk across
Virginia at http://walkacrossvirginia.blogspot.com/. Thanks to Whitetop Mountain Band and Arhoolie
Records for permission to use excerpts from the song, “Banks of New River,” and
good luck, Laurel!
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia
water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the
Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo,
thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
Acknowledgments and Sources: “Banks of New River,” from the 2008 album “Bull Plus 10%,” is copyright
Whitetop Mountain Band and Arhoolie Records, used with permission. This music was used previously by Virginia Water Radio in Episode 109, 5-7-12. More information about the Whitetop
Mountain Band is available from their website: http://whitetopmountainband.tripod.com/index.html. Information about the Center for Watershed
Protection, where Laurel is a stormwater and watershed planner (in the
Charlottesville, Va., office), is available online at http://www.cwp.org/.
Recent Virginia Water
News
For
news relevant to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Virginia Water Central News Grouper,
available online at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/.
Water Meetings and
Other Events
For
events related to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Quick Guide to Virginia Water–related
Conferences, Workshops, and Other Events, online at http://virginiawaterevents.wordpress.com/. The site includes a list of Virginia
government policy and regulatory meetings occurring in the coming week.
