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		<title>What to Ask VDOT on January 8, 2013 at Next North-South Corridor open house</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2013/01/06/what-to-ask-vdot-on-january-8-2013-at-next-north-south-corridor-open-house/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Jan 2013 03:34:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgrymes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[On January 8, VDOT has scheduled an open house to discuss the North South Corridor at the Four Points Sheraton next to the Manassas battlefield (10800 Vandor Lane, Manassas), 6:30-8:30pm. Here are some questions to ask at the meeting: - since funding for new construction is tight, what is the return-on-investment (ROI) of the different [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5524&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>VDOT reveals North-South Corridor Master Plan Study on Wednesday, December 19 &#8211; and hopes no one will come to meeting</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/vdot-reveals-north-south-corridor-master-plan-study-on-wednesday-december-19-and-hopes-no-one-will-come-to-meeting/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/12/17/vdot-reveals-north-south-corridor-master-plan-study-on-wednesday-december-19-and-hopes-no-one-will-come-to-meeting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 00:00:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgrymes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Transportation]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[How do you hold a public meeting, but minimize public participation?  Hide the announcement on a rarely-visited website, hold the meeting during the December holidaze, and cut off public input on January 2. That&#8217;s the game VDOT is playing with the Northern Virginia North-South Corridor Master Plan.  There is a meeting Tuesday night in Loudoun [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5518&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>City May Win the Right to Keep Lake Manassas Closed &#8211; But Is That Good Public Policy?</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/city-may-win-the-right-to-keep-lake-manassas-closed-but-is-that-good-public-policy/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/10/16/city-may-win-the-right-to-keep-lake-manassas-closed-but-is-that-good-public-policy/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:35:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgrymes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In July 2012,  a Prince William Circuit Court judge dismissed the lawsuit filed by the developer of a community of the shores of Lake Manassas (Case CL04077794-00).  The judge&#8217;s decision, if upheld on appeal, allows the city to continue to block recreational access to the lake. Lake Manassas is owned by a public body, the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5510&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How to Get Your Well&#8217;s Water Quality Tested</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/how-to-get-your-wells-water-quality-tested/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/10/01/how-to-get-your-wells-water-quality-tested/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Oct 2012 21:34:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgrymes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Got a Well or Spring? Here&#8217;s an opportunity to get the water quality checked: Prince William Drinking Water Clinic sponsored by Virginia Cooperative Extension Kick-off: November 5, 2012, 7 &#8211; 8:30pm Sample Drop off: Wednesday November 7, 6:30am-10am ONLY* Results Interpretation Meeting: December 5, 2012, 7 &#8211; 8:30pm Old Courthouse, 9246 Lee Avenue Manassas, VA [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5505&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Who Will Pay For a New &#8220;Free&#8221;way to Dulles?</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/who-will-pay-for-a-new-freeway-to-dulles/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/09/04/who-will-pay-for-a-new-freeway-to-dulles/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Sep 2012 13:06:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgrymes</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[According to the September 3, 2012 Washington Post, the fix is in for building the Outer Beltway/Western Transportation Corridor/Bi-County Parkway (now North-South Corridor) in western Prince William/Loudoun counties.  It would connect Interstate 66 to the west side of Dulles airport, extending Route 234 north through areas planned for low density development. Advocates for the road argue it [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5486&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Looking a $100,000 Gift Horse in the Mouth</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/looking-a-100000-gift-horse-in-the-mouth/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/08/17/looking-a-100000-gift-horse-in-the-mouth/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Aug 2012 02:50:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>cgrymes</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Parks and Trails]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[It took less than a year for the Coles District supervisor to act on the opportunity to open up the Dove&#8217;s Landing parcel to public use, after magisterial district boundaries were redrawn to shift the parcel from the Brentsville District. On August 7, 2012, the Board of County Supervisors committed $100,000 for Dove&#8217;s Landing from [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5460&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>PWCA Comments on Virginia&#8217;s Phase II Chesapeake Bay Water Improvement Plan</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/pwca-comments-on-virginias-phase-ii-chesapeake-bay-water-improvement-plan/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/05/31/pwca-comments-on-virginias-phase-ii-chesapeake-bay-water-improvement-plan/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 31 May 2012 17:44:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PWCA</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Chesapeake Bay]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the last 300 years, Prince William County has damaged its streams and polluted its waters. We have removed the natural forest cover, used creeks as sewers for sewage wastes, and piped excessive runoff from our roads directly into our waterways. Not surprisingly, many of our lakes and streams are classified as “impaired” by the [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5450&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nature Notes – Merrimac Farm April 29, 1012</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/nature-notes-merrimac-farm-april-29-1012/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/04/30/nature-notes-merrimac-farm-april-29-1012/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 21:21:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discover Nearby Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merrimac Farm WMA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[by Harry Glasgow On the last Sunday of every month, the Prince William Conservation Alliance sponsors a nature walk at the Merrimac Farm Wildlife Management Area in Nokesville.  This morning, we walked this very beautiful remote property and tallied 38 species.  Of particular interest were Warblers.  We found an abundance of Prairie Warblers, and what [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5431&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>There is no such thing as a dead tree</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-dead-tree/</link>
		<comments>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/04/20/there-is-no-such-thing-as-a-dead-tree/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Apr 2012 20:38:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Guest Post</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discover Nearby Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Streams, Trees & Wetlands]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Guest post by Harry Glasgow In the forest, in autumn, an acorn drops from an oak.  Soon, a bushy-tailed squirrel finds it and obeys an ageless urge to bury it to be dug up later during the spare oncoming winter. Soon forgotten by the squirrel, it remains buried through the winter, and begins to germinate [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5419&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Bluebell Festival a Hit!</title>
		<link>http://pwconserve.wordpress.com/2012/04/17/bluebell-festival-a-hit/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 17 Apr 2012 10:13:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Terry Reardon</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Discover Nearby Nature]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Environment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Merrimac Farm WMA]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This year’s annual Bluebell Festival at Merrimac Farm (and my first) on April 15, turned out to be a great experience even though the famous bluebells were past their peak due to the unseasonably warm weather. As such, there was a greater focus on wildlife and history. Several hundred participants, including many families with children, [&#8230;]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=pwconserve.wordpress.com&#038;blog=4102399&#038;post=5411&#038;subd=pwconserve&#038;ref=&#038;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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