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 June 11, 2012.
This week, we feature voices of Virginia high-school
students competing in Virginia’s Dominion Envirothon. Conducted by the Virginia Association of Soil
and Water Conservation Districts, the Envirothon challenges teams of five
students to show their knowledge and skills about aquatics, forestry, soils,
and wildlife, and to make a 20-minute oral presentation on a current
environmental issue. For the 2012
competition, teams presented proposed solutions for a real-life
stormwater-management problem in the Fairfax County community of McLean. The
teams were required specifically to consider low-impact development, or LID,
practices as alternatives to more conventional stormwater-management
techniques. Have a listen for about 3
minutes to an excerpt from this year’s state-level competition, held in May at
James Madison University. The excerpt
starts with brief comments from two Association staff members.
SOUND.
Envirothon offers students a chance to learn about natural
resources and to develop communication and teamwork skills. If you’re interested in starting a team in
your area, contact your local soil and water conservation district.
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: Thanks to the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation
Districts for permission to record presentations at the 2012 state-level
competition. More information about the
Envirothon and about Virginia soil and water conservation districts is
available online at http://vaswcd.org/;
from the Association at 7308 Hanover Green Drive, Suite 100,
Mechanicsville, Virginia 23111, phone (804) 559-0324,
e-mail kendall.tyree@vaswcd.org; or from your local soil and water conservation district.
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.
