MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Va. (WDBJ7) UPDATE
The Montgomery county board of supervisors sent a letter to DEQ Wednesday morning.
They asked the DEQ to reverse it’s position to give a blanket permit to MVP to cross Virginia waterways.
That letter can be viewed to the right of this article.
ORIGINAL STORY
A Montgomery County group fighting the Mountain Valley Pipeline now has the support of their local government to ask for help in protecting their water.
Preserve Montgomery County asked the Board of Supervisors in their meeting Monday night to send a letter to the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality Director David Paylor.
They want the DEQ to reverse it’s position to give a blanket permit to MVP to cross Virginia waterways.
Preserve Montgomery County wants each waterway to need it’s own permit for the pipeline to cross them.
Right now, the group thinks the U.S. Army Corp of Engineers doing the blanket permit only cares about navigable waters.
Lynda Majors with Preserve Montgomery County said, “The level of concern that they have for sedimentation and other uses of Virginia water, I don’t think that’s their mission at all.”
WDBJ 7 – 09.16.2017
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