Clean Virginia Waterways (CVW):
  • Founded in 1995 -- Celebrating 15 years of serving Virginia's waterways!
  • Statewide, nonprofit, incorporated
  • Award-winning track record of success
  • Affiliated with Longwood University
  • 501(c)(3) tax status; donations are tax-deductible
  • Guided by a board of directors
  • Dedicated to increasing public awareness and knowledge of Virginia’s watersheds by increasing citizen stewardship of Virginia’s water resources
  • Virginia Water Monitoring Council member since 1999
  • Virginia Resource Use Education Council member
CVW is recognized by the Ocean Conservancy as the formally sanctioned State Coordinating Body for the International Coastal Cleanup, held annually in September and October. The ICC is the world's largest volunteer effort to collect data about trash and debris in the aquatic environment.
 

CVW's Mission/Purpose:

Educate the public, school children and teachers about freshwater and marine pollution as well as measures needed to reduce pollution and enhance conservation of Virginia's waterways

To organize volunteers to remove debris from Virginia's shorelines, waterways and beaches

Collect and catalog valuable information on the amount and types of debris, then use the information collected from the cleanups to effect policy changes

Work closely with state and local watershed groups to develop water quality monitoring programs.

Results -- what we've done

2007 Annual Report

Why do we do it?

Funding and Membership

 

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Clean Virginia Waterways, Longwood University, 201 High Street, Farmville, VA 23909
434-395-2602 Fax: 434-395-2825 Email: cleanva@longwood.edu