Mattaponi River Reservoir project is dead!!!

From this month's edition of the Virginia Chapter of the Sierra Club...the "Old Dominion Sierran"

"All of our efforts, a seven year fight by the Virginia Chapter, have resulted in a big win May 14. The Virginia Marine Resources Commission voted 6-2 to deny a permit for an intake structure for the King William Reservoir, which officially kills the project..."

"At the VMRC public hearing on April 22...221 people signed up in opposition...recessed until May 14"

"...May 14th, the hearing continued all day, with 39 speakers against the project, citing harm to shad, river ecology, farmers, fishermen, Native Americans,...Newport News was given a 45 minute rebuttal, then commissioner Russell Garrison moved to deny."

"We ask you now to send a note to Governor Warner to thank him for letting the project to proceed without interference."