There seems to be a disconnect between the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (VDHR) and the James River Water Authority (JRWA). At issue is an anticipatory burial permit from the authority to build its water intake and pump station at Point of Fork, which was formerly the capital for the Monacan Indian Nation.
A Central Virginia water authority is appealing decisions by a state department related to a controversial planned water intake and pump station project in Fluvanna County.
A host of issues have emerged in recent months that look to complicate the James River Water Authority’s plans to construct a water pump station at the confluence of the James and Rivanna rivers.
The courts have long recognized that government has the power to regulate properties based on aesthetic and historic features, an attorney affiliated with the University of Florida told a historic preservation forum Wednesday.
An urban historian, a research professor and a lawyer/scholar make up the panel of historic preservation experts who will be in Palm Beach on Wednesday for a forum on historic districts.
An archaeologist who participated in the survey of a proposed water pumping station on the James River at Point of Fork said in a sworn statement that work conducted at the site was “illegal, unethical, and unscientific”.
A whistleblower alleged that he observed “unethical” practices during recent archeological work at the location where Louisa County hopes to build a water pump station near the banks of the James River.
The authority in charge of a water project in Fluvanna County is now investigating a consultant’s archaeological work on the contentious project, after a former employee came forward with allegations of unethical practices by the consultant.
For centuries, a site in central Virginia was capital of the Monacan Indian Nation. Today it’s owned by Fluvanna and Louisa Counties and officials plan to build a water pump there. They say the infrastructure is needed to provide water to residents and businesses in Zion Crossroads.
I am not sure which is more disturbing: the vigorous defense by the James River Water Authority of its consultant or its apparent failure to verify her credentials for overseeing the disturbance of one of the Monacan Indians’ most important sites as it plans to locate a water intake station there on the James River.
‘The land of the free and the home of the brave” — that famous line from “The Star-Spangled Banner” — doesn’t ring true for all people in this nation.
The elected leaders of Louisa and Fluvanna counties should step in to resolve the dispute over the James River water permit, the attorney for the Monacan Indian Nation said this week.
An archaeologist consulting on a controversial water project in Fluvanna County misrepresented her degree on her resume, according to state officials.
A senior state official says the consultant overseeing archeological work at the site where Louisa County hopes to draw a public water supply is not qualified to do the job.
The following poem was shared at the Sept. 16 Louisa County Board of Supervisors meeting during public comment period, in response to the board’s continued pattern of saying one thing but doing another.
The James River Water Authority is pushing back against a surprise decision by the Virginia Department of Historic Resources (VDHR) and the Army Corps of Engineers (ACOE) to disqualify work done by the archaeologist who surveyed the proposed site on the James River at Point of Fork near Columbia.
A planned water intake and pump station slated to be built along the James River on the site of the ancient village of Rassawek, the historic capital of the Monacan Tribe, could be delayed after officials determined an archaeologist consulting on the project was unqualified.
In Central Virginia, at a point where two rivers merge, there’s a little-known site with great historical value. For centuries, it was home to the chief village of the Monacan Indian Nation.
In John Smith’s 1612 map of Virginia, at the point where the Rivanna River meets the James, he marked Rassawek, the capital of the Monacan Indians. Jump forward 400 years and the site is on another map, this one targeting it as a pump station to quench Zion Crossroads’ thirst.
The site of Rassawek, important to the Monacan Nation, is proposed to be destroyed by a pump station built by the James River Water Authority for Fluvanna and Louisa counties.