Committee Mission:
To advise and educate the public on sustainable landscape practices to improve water quality.

Primary Goals:

• To expand contact with the public to provide education on proper landscape practices. · To have nitrogen and phosphorous levels meet the SAV habitat requirements (Dennison et al. 1993) as noted in the State of the River report.
• To have 175 acres of underwater grass beds in the river reestablished.
• To increase buffer plantings through the Lynnhaven watershed.
• To reduce total acreage of turf and other high input plant materials in the watershed.
• To continue increased community involvement with LRNow.

Recent Projects:

• Workshops to build your own rain barrel are offered several times a year to help citizens reduce stormwater runoff from their property.
• Provide Lynnhaven-friendly landscape management information through publications available to citizens, gardening groups and landscape professionals.
• Periodically provide citizen workshops on building rain gardens and buffer gardens.
• Currently, the LPC is pursuing soil test options that are sensitive to water quality problems in regard to nitrogen loading

Meeting Schedule:
The Landscape Practices committee meets monthly at Bayville Golf and Country Club, First Court Road, Virginia Beach unless otherwise announced and noted. This group meets on the 4th Thursday of each month at 8:30 am. It does not meet during the months of August and December.

Scheduled meeting dates for 2010 are January 28, February 25, March 25, April 22, May 27, June 24, July 22, September 23, October 28 and November 18.

Contact:
Please contact Helen Kuhns at HKuhns@lynnhaven2007.com or 757-962-5398 if you wish more information or are interested in serving on the Landscape Practices Committee.