Bill Text: VA HJR269 | 2024 | Regular Session | Enrolled
Bill Title: Commending the River Basin Grand Winners of the Clean Water Farm Award.
Spectrum: Slight Partisan Bill (Democrat 7-3)
Status: (Passed) 2024-03-06 - Bill text as passed House and Senate (HJ269ER) [HJR269 Detail]
Download: Virginia-2024-HJR269-Enrolled.html
WHEREAS, the Department of Conservation and Recreation and the Soil and Water Conservation Districts provide farmers throughout the Commonwealth with education, technical assistance, and incentive programs to encourage nutrient reduction and water quality improvement; and
WHEREAS, the General Assembly passed legislation in 1998 to establish the Clean Water Farm Award Program, which is administered by the Department of Conservation and Recreation; and
WHEREAS, the Clean Water Farm Award Program furthers the Commonwealth's water quality goals by recognizing farmers actively engaged in implementing important conservation practices that control nutrients, sediment, and other agricultural nonpoint source pollutants; and
WHEREAS, the Soil and Water Conservation Districts selected local farms across the Commonwealth for recognition in 2023 as winners of the Clean Water Farm Award; and
WHEREAS, farms have been selected to represent the Commonwealth's major river basins and to recognize the exemplary efforts of such farms in implementing best management practices; and
WHEREAS, the 2023 winners are:
Lazy M Farm, Tazewell County, for the Big Sandy-Upper Tennessee River Basin;
Shelton Alley Farms, Northampton County, for the Coastal Basin;
Old Tavern Farm, New Kent County, for the James River Basin;
Summerfield Pastoral Farm, Grayson County, for the New River Basin;
Justin and Casey Wisch, Long Stone Farm, Loudoun County, for the Potomac River Basin;
John Paul and Mollie Visosky, Locust Dale Cattle Company, Culpeper County, for the Rappahannock River Basin;
Tim, Amy, Justin, Samuel, Faith, and Zachary Alderson, A-Plus Farms, Pittsylvania County, for the Roanoke River Basin;
Justin and Kristi Schmidt, Rockingham County, for the Shenandoah River Basin;
Fred Massie and Peter Massie, Louisa County, for the York River Basin; now, therefore, be it
RESOLVED by the House of Delegates, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly hereby commend and congratulate the River Basin Grand Winners of the Clean Water Farm Award; and, be it
RESOLVED FURTHER, That the Clerk of the House of Delegates prepare copies of this resolution for presentation to the River Basin Grand Winners of the Clean Water Farm Award as an expression of the General Assembly's admiration for their commitment to conserving the Commonwealth's natural resources and their outstanding conservation achievements.
