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2023 SESSION

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SENATE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 366 Commending the River Basin Grand Winners of the Clean Water Farm Award.

 

Agreed to by the Senate, February 21, 2023 Agreed to by the House of Delegates, February 22, 2023

 

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 2022 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 2022 winners are:

Steve and Charlie Smith, Holston Vista Farm, Washington County, for the Big Sandy-Upper Tennessee River Basin;

John Shepherd, Shepherd Grain Farms, LLC, Nottoway County, for the Chowan River Basin;

Jim Evans, Evans Farms, Accomack County, for the Coastal Basin;

The Teel Family, Clover Green Farm, LLC, Albemarle County, for the James River Basin;

The Hudgins Family, DRH Farm, Wythe County, for the New River Basin;

Karla H. Evans, Creek Hill Farm, Loudoun County, for the Potomac River Basin;

Jacob and Jennifer Gilley, Heaven’s Hollow Farm, Madison County, for the Rappahannock River Basin;

Brian Hall, IJN, LLC, Halifax County, for the Roanoke River Basin;

Weldon Heatwole, Cedar Ridge Dairy, Inc., Rockingham County, for the Shenandoah River Basin; and

The Sedwick Family, Lakeland Farm, Orange County, for the York River Basin; now, therefore, be it

RESOLVED by the Senate, the House of Delegates 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 Senate 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.