Tag: chesapeake bay

To the editor: This is Alexandria’s continuing story of three watershed streams: Strawberry Run, Taylor Run and Lucky Run. It shows how our actions can...

To the editor: For the moment, Alexandria has dropped its plans to reconstruct two local waterways – Taylor Run along King Street and Strawberry...

To the editor: During her time as mayor, Allison Silberberg made improving the city’s tree canopy a priority. Thousands of trees were planted, helping alleviate...

To the editor: An environmentally destructive and unnecessarily costly plan advocated by two city officials in the Department of Transportation & Environmental Services – Yon...

To the editor: My name is Amarantha Flachs-Hernandez and I am an eighth grade student at George Washington Middle School. Last year, the Virginia Department...

To the editor: Cities and “natural stream restoration” contractors are cheating the Chesapeake Bay by inflating the environmental credits they get for stream restoration projects....

To the editor: Mayor Justin Wilson recently defended the proposed Taylor Run stream reconstruction project in the Facebook group “Bring Integrity Back to Alexandria,” saying...

To the editor: The city’s plan to re-engineer Taylor Run to reduce phosphorus erosion is shortsighted because it fails to take into account the substantial...

By Missy Schrott | [email protected] Is reducing pollution in the Chesapeake Bay worth cutting down 269 trees in Alexandria? This is the question at the...

To the editor: Don Brady's “Defending Rosgen’s design” in the Oct. 1, 2020 Alexandria Times missed the whole point as to adverse environmental impacts incurred...