Advocates propose reclassifying the water quality of the river from Rumford to Lisbon — a move they say could spark economic ...

Otters once inhabited every river system in Pennsylvania, but by the early 1900s, most of them were gone. Now, they’re making a comeback.

After early signs of drought from Georgia through Virginia this spring, a slow-moving storm brought flooding rain to the ...

To view rivers only as sources and drains is to reduce them to base functions rather than to see them as the life-giving, ...

He’s a hydrologist with the United States Geological Survey ... ordinances to ensure the long-term protection of the Rappahannock River and the Potomac aquifer.” The report also calls for ...

Rappahannock Electric Cooperative also showed ... “What we would wish for is nice steady rain and storms that give us normal rainfall,” he said, not the extreme periods of either no rain ...

In the tiny hamlet of Topping, Virginia, there’s a waterfront gem that serves seafood so fresh you’d swear the crabs jumped straight from the Rappahannock River onto your plate ... It’s the kind of ...

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. (7News) — The Rappahannock River has been named one of America’s most endangered rivers of 2025. American Rivers ranked the Virginia river number six on the list ...

The Rappahannock Indian Tribe ... the eastern bank of the Rappahannock River. The Conservation Fund, a nonprofit devoted to preserving land in the United States, bought the property in 2022 ...

The devastation was so thorough and far-reaching that American Rivers, in its annual list of endangered rivers across the United States ... is touched by the Rappahannock River, which flows ...

The third largest river ... in the United States. Many of those resources are found east of Interstate 95 in Fredericksburg. "As the region continues to grow, protecting the Rappahannock’s ...