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Inquiring minds want to know\u2026 why Ashville Park? Why not Heritage Park, or even Lago Mar?\u00a0 For that matter, why not the early farmers who cut, ditched and drained the mostly forested wetlands that historically comprised a good portion of the Back Bay watershed? And don\u2019t forget the Civilian Conservation Corps, who \u201cstabilized\u201d dunes up and down the mid Atlantic coast, preventing barrier island migration, wash overs, and all kinds of natural, dynamic processes\u2026 why not blame them for the current state of Back Bay?<\/p>\n
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As BBRF prepares for our Public Meeting\/Listening Session, we\u2019ve been trying to gather, and focus our thoughts on the best ways to capture new ideas about this complex watershed. Most importantly, how do we focus on actions and decisions, that will impact the watershed in the future?\u00a0 What actions\/decisions should be made today, that will serve to conserve the watershed well into the future?\u00a0 How do we improve water quality and mitigate the long term impacts of Sea Level Rise (SLR)?\u00a0 With the City\u2019s SLR meetings beginning on May 29th<\/sup>, we wanted to give those concerned about Back Bay a way to talk and listen to each other.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n And in that preparation, it became abundantly clear that our meeting could not be about the past.\u00a0 Sure, we need to learn from our past decisions, but only as they inform solutions.\u00a0 In the continuum of land use history, it\u2019s impossible to mark a point in time when things started to go \u201cwrong\u201d in the watershed.\u00a0 It\u2019s also not productive.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n So\u2026. Why Ashville Park?\u00a0 The answer is simple.\u00a0 Ashville Park is only partially developed.\u00a0 Ashville Park can serve as an example, proving ground, and focus area for Virginia Beach to show how we use science to actually implement new policies. Back Bay is almost certainly at or near it\u2019s \u201ctipping point\u201d, and Ashville Park could be the land that nurses the watershed back to health.<\/p>\n [\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Inquiring minds want to know\u2026 why Ashville Park? Why not Heritage Park, or even Lago Mar?\u00a0 For that matter, why not the early farmers who cut, ditched and drained the mostly forested wetlands that historically comprised a good portion of the Back Bay watershed? And don\u2019t forget the Civilian Conservation Corps, who \u201cstabilized\u201d dunes up […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"on","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/backbayrestorationfoundation.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}