News and Events (Announcements)

VWMC Announcements

Announcements are provided to the members of the Virginia Water Monitoring Council (VWMC) via e-mail messages on a regular basis.  These water-related announcements are archived on our website for several weeks. If you have water-monitoring related news of regional or statewide interest or would like to join the VWMC’s listserv, contact the VWMC administrative assistant at vwmc@vt.edu. 

Special Summer Announcement: Information about Outdoor Recreational Waters

• Beach Standards, Monitoring, and Notification (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) -- http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/beaches
• National Coastal Condition Report (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency) -- http://epa.gov/owow/oceans/nccr/index.html
• Healthy Swimming (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) -- http://www.cdc.gov/healthyswimming
• Beach Monitoring (Virginia Department of Health) -- http://www.vdh.virginia.gov/epidemiology/DEE/BeachMonitoring/
• Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program (Virginia Department of Environmental Quality) -- http://www.deq.virginia.gov/coastal
• Beaches and Bacteria -- (Virginia Water Central, newsletter of the Virginia Water Resources Research Center, August 2004, PDF file)

Archived Announcements

• Upcoming Conferences Beyond Virginia
• Upcoming Water-Related Events in Virginia
• Low Impact Development Training Session
• 2009 Virginia Citizens for Water Quality (VCWQ) Summer Summit 
• Recreational Water Illness Prevention Week
• American Reinvestment and Recovery Act: State Revolving Fund Programs (EPA PowerPoint Presentation)
• Upcoming Conferences (html)
• Special Announcement, August 21, 2009
• World Water Monitoring Day
• 2009.10.29 (html)
• 2009.10.19 (html)
• 2009.10.03 (html)
• 2009.09.30 (html)
• 2009.09.14 (html)
• 2009.08.25 (html)
• 2009.08.20 (html)
• 2009.08.11 (html)
• 2009.08.07 (html)
• 2009.7.28 (html)
• 2009.7.22 (html)
• 2009.7.14 (html)
• 2009.7.6 (html)