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New Hope for Trout in Spout Run
Posted on August 2, 2016
Carter Hall Spring April 25, 2016 Downstream of Project Hope’s Carter Hall spring, students from Ms. Robin Coutts lower school science class at Powhatan School released trout fry they had raised from eggs into Spout Run. For the last several years, the school has participated in Trout Unlimited’s “Trout in the Classroom” program as part […]
A Watershed Event: Concert for Clean Water in Clarke County
Posted on December 9, 2014
BERRYVILLE—Barns of Rose Hill, Saturday, January 3, 2015- Benefit performance by Where’s Aubrey, with a guest appearance from the The Bitter Liberals! Ring in the new year, enjoy some special holiday refreshments, and help support clean water in Clarke County while you enjoy the always entertaining and inventive sounds of Where’s Aubrey at Barns of […]
Putting Down Roots on Spout Run (video journal)
Posted on November 26, 2014
Carter Hall Spring November 8, 2014 It was a crisp November morning and over 20 volunteers from Clarke County and the surrounding community gathered on the banks of Spout Run to plant over 150 native trees and shrubs to improve habitat and do their part to restore this unique spring creek. On the heels of the stream […]
Landowner Leadership in the Spout Run Watershed
Posted on November 25, 2014
Richard Farland recently completed a conservation project on his farm along Page Brook. The two hundred acre farm is home to a cow-calf operation. In partnership with the Lord Fairfax Soil and Water Conservation District, Mr. Farland has fenced the livestock out all 2,360 feet of Page Brook. An additional 1,237 feet of wetland was […]
High Water Earns High Marks for Stream Restoration Efforts
Posted on June 6, 2014
A potentially record-breaking and damaging storm surge came down Spout Run earlier this month along with monsoon rains, just two days after this restored reach of Spout Run at Carter Hall spring below Millwood had been staked and seeded. The Downstream crew joined stream restoration specialists, Seth Coffman and James Fulcher from Trout Unlimited, to […]
Spout Run Restoration begins below Millwood
Posted on May 16, 2014
Stream restoration specialist, Seth Coffman, from Trout Unlimited describes progress on the first targeted streambank restoration project on Spout Run, just below Millwood and the Carter Hall spring. In May of 2013, we captured video of Seth and James Fulcher recording topographic information as we witnessed the severity of the vertical and incised banks which […]
Spout Run: A case study on the effect of biosolid fertilizer application on water quality
Posted on March 4, 2014
How does nitrogen get in the streams of the Shenandoah Valley? Spout Run watershed was a case study in this FOSR 2013 report from Clarke County, Virginia which indicates that springs located near fields or areas where biosolids have been applied have higher Nitrate concentrations than those springs located in areas where biosolids have not been […]