INSIDE BEYOND WORDS page 4 LESTER SEAL page 10 BARREL MAKING page 11 BIKE RACERS page 13 HOT DOGS page 20
SEPTEMBER 2015 VOL. 10, NO. 4
The County’s Rising Water Programs
DO IT YOUR WAY page 21 MATTHEWS page 22
By Dirk Nies
GMO TESTS page 24 NEW BREWS page 25 PASTA A LA NORMA pages 26 BEACH PLANTS page 28 WEATHER CHART page 30 NATURAL KILLER page 31 COPY LAW page 32 YESTERYEAR page 33 FLEAS page 34 GET IN SYNC page 37 MYTHS OF SCIENCE page 38 ME, MYSELF & I page 39
Brewing equipment was delivered to Crozet’s newest craft brewery in August. See story page 25.
Advisory Committee Reviews New Block Plan for Barnes Lumber The Crozet Community Advisory Committee was introduced to a block development plan for the former Barnes Lumber company property at its meeting August 19 and responded with a rare spontaneous round of applause as plan architect Warren Byrd ended his presentation. White Hall residents Byrd and his wife Susan Nelson, also an architect, drafted the plan to demonstrate how the community’s goals, as defined in the Crozet Master Plan and the Downtown Crozet District, a special
By Jerry Reid jerry@crozetgazette.com
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Riding up I-81 from Crozet last Friday, heading for an away opener, the tug of Friday Night Lights was palpable. This was the beginning of high school fall sports, and Western Albemarle’s Warriors were going visiting. Broadway is down the Valley, near Harrisonburg, and on a waning sum-
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zoning area, can be realized in a design for the 20-acre lumberyard parcel. Now retired, they were both on the architecture faculty at the University of Virginia. They also ran a design firm in Charlottesville, then called Nelson Byrd Landscape Architects and now known as Nelson Byrd Woltz, for Thomas Woltz, who took over leadership of the practice. Their firm was selected by Albemarle County as the consultant for the development of the foundational
Albemarle County is blessed with abundant, fresh water flowing through its 2,360 miles of streams and rivers. Alterations of the landscape and intensive land use have diminished their water quality, especially in highly urbanized areas. Much remedial work has been done in recent years to improve the health of these surface waters. Nevertheless, significant impairment of County water resources continues, with adverse effects that may be felt downstream as far away as the Chesapeake Bay. Albemarle County’s Department of Water Resource Management is charged with overseeing the County’s surface and groundwater resources, protecting and restoring stream corridors, and generally preserving the integrity of our natural environment. Program costs for water use planning, land use regulation, capital projects,
mer night, it was home to a perfect jewel of small town gridirons. Before the lights were lit and the National Anthem performed by the Gobblers’ band, though, the trek to the field meant treading on painted turkey paws spread all over the concrete. Hot dogs and hamburgers were heating up on the concession stand grill, and the home crowd was happily tailgating. Filtering into the stands, they were continued on page 45
Nitrogen load map in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Red area indicates highest effectiveness.