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☼ FY 2009 ANNUAL PLAN OF WORK ☼
☼RADFORD GREEN INFRASTRUCTURE PROGRAM The City of Radford, Virginia’s green infrastructure contributes a variety of ecosystem benefits including air and stormwater filtration, energy conservation and carbon sequestration that improves the quality of life for City residents. These benefits represent an economic opportunity on two fronts-first, efficient provision and maintenance of costly ecosystem services, and second, realizing economic opportunities from underutilized and untended environmental capital. The future capacity of the City’s green infrastructure to produce these benefits is uncertain if these benefits (and their worth) remain unnoticed, unprotected and undermanaged. This proposed project has three phases that would cultivate an economically sustainable green infrastructure for the City of Radford. The first would be an inventory and appraisal of the City’s green infrastructure-a calculation of the worth of green infrastructure to the City. The second would prioritize management needs for the City’s green infrastructure and would recommend actions for City managers and/or private residents to implement. The third component would be a series of demonstration projects that illustrate appropriate management actions. All phases of the project would emphasize the economics of green infrastructure and the ecosystem services that green infrastructure provides. Partners: Virginia Department of Forestry; City of Radford; Virginia Tech-Department of Forestry Goal II: Increase the economic return, management and sustainability of the area’s forest resources. Objective II-E: Promote the value of urban and community forests. Strategy E1: Better educate communities, municipal employees and the general public in Southwest Virginia on the benefits and values of the urban forest and help provide them with the tools to properly care for them. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ACTION COST COUNCIL STAFF PLANNED ESTIMATE: REPRESENTATIVE: REPRESENTATIVE 2009: 2010: & TIME ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Complete | | $60,000 | Louis Brossy | Gary Boring 16 hours David Richert 120 hours
☼NEW RIVER STREAMBANK RESTORATION PHASE I The New River-Highlands RC&D Council will develop streambank stabilization and restoration demonstration projects throughout the RC&D Area. Partners will include the Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries, U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service, Natural Resources Conservation Service and local Soil & Water Conservation Districts to plan and implement demonstration projects. Partners: Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation; Local Soil & Water Conservation Districts, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries; Town of Bluefield; Pulaski County; Landowners Goal IV: Improve the quality of the surface and ground waters of the RC&D Area. Objective IV-C: Decrease non-point source pollution from agricultural lands through voluntary incentive based cost-share programs. Strategy C2: Work with local groups to secure funding for agricultural Best Management Practices through state, federal and other programs. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ACTION COST COUNCIL STAFF PLANNED ESTIMATE: REPRESENTATIVE: REPRESENTATIVE 2009: 2010: & TIME ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Complete | | $250,000 | Thomas Dumper | Gary Boring 160 hours
☼NEW RIVER STREAMBANK RESTORATION PHASE II The New River Highlands RC&D Streambank Restoration Phase II Project will address streambank and channel erosion in the New River Watershed. This will be accomplished with a series of demonstrations that will focus on streambank stabilization and channel stabilization as a means to reduce sediment pollutants in streams. This is a continuation of the 2006 New River-Highlands RC&D Streambank Restoration Project. Partners: Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation; Local Soil & Water Conservation Districts, Virginia Department of Game & Inland Fisheries; Town of Bluefield; Pulaski County; Landowners Goal IV: Improve the quality of the surface and ground waters of the RC&D Area. Objective IV-C: Decrease non-point source pollution from agricultural lands through voluntary incentive based cost-share programs. Strategy C2: Work with local groups to secure funding for agricultural Best Management Practices through state, federal and other programs. ___________________________________________________________________________________ ACTION COST COUNCIL STAFF PLANNED ESTIMATE: REPRESENTATIVE: REPRESENTATIVE 2009: 2010: & TIME ___________________________________________________________________________________________ Complete | | $200,000 | M. Jay Hubble | Gary Boring 60 hours
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