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Elizabeth River Project, Wetlands Watch, and Coastal Virginia Conservancy Partner to Protect Wetlands From Sea Level Rise
First Rolling Conservation Easement in the Nation to be Signed on January 16, 2024 Norfolk, VA – The Elizabeth River Project, a non-profit organization dedicated to restoring the Elizabeth River and its native ecosystems, is proud to announce a groundbreaking project...
Notes from the Coast | 2023
Coastal Virginia Conservancy - Doing the Most for the Coast! Can you believe it's been almost six months since the spring equinox, when the Living River Trust announced its name change to Coastal Virginia Conservancy? (See video “Introducing Coastal Virginia...
Notice: IRS rule changes that may affect your conservation easement.
Please let this serve as notice to our conservation easement donors that a recent IRS notice that may impact your easement and federal tax deduction. In response to recent legislation passed by Congress, the IRS issued Notice 2023-30 in late April of this year. Notice...
The Living River Trust is now Coastal Virginia Conservancy
Norfolk, Virginia. March 20, 2023 Serendipitously coinciding with the spring equinox, today Norfolk based non-profit The Living River Trust announced its name change to Coastal Virginia Conservancy. The new descriptor reflects the organization’s expanded goal to...
Paradise Clean Up Effort Complete
PORTSMOUTH, VA With a hand from local environmental non-profit, the Living River Trust, Portsmouth’s Paradise Creek again lives up to its name. After an intense 12- month cleanup effort, work is complete cleaning one of the Elizabeth River’s pollutant hotspots. “The...
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Completion of first phase of Portsmouth’s Paradise Creek restoration a ‘colossal step forward,’ conservancy says
Coastal Virginia Conservancy has completed the first of three phases of its sediment restoration project in Paradise Creek, situated on the Southern Branch of the Elizabeth River in Portsmouth. The achievement marks a milestone of restoring 26 acres to date in the...
5 million pounds of contaminated sediment removed from Portsmouth’s Paradise Creek
A local nonprofit recently finished the first phase of a years-long cleanup project in Portsmouth’s Paradise Creek. The Coastal Virginia Conservancy, formerly known as the Living River Trust, has now removed about five million pounds of historically contaminated...
Sea level rise will swamp Norfolk nonprofit’s $8 million new headquarters. That’s the whole point.
Sea level rise is projected to eventually swamp the roughly one-acre spot of land along Knitting Mill Creek in Norfolk where the Elizabeth River Project chose to build its brand new headquarters. Over the next six decades, waters will encroach until the shoreline has...
In Norfolk, an environmental headquarters plans to live with the water, then surrender to reality
For Marjorie Mayfield-Jackson of Norfolk’s Elizabeth River Project, signing a groundbreaking agreement to tear down the organization’s new $9 million headquarters when waters rise too high was bittersweet. “It’s hard to not even have had the grand opening yet and...
Preserving Nature’s Legacy: Hampton Roads REALTORS® Foundation Grants $10,000 to Coastal Virginia Conservancy for Land Conservation Efforts on the Southside
Preserving Nature’s Legacy: Hampton Roads REALTORS® Foundation Grants $10,000 to Coastal Virginia Conservancy for Land Conservation Efforts on the Southside CHESAPEAKE, VA—The Hampton Roads REALTORS® Foundation is proud to announce that they have granted $10,000 to...
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