Regional Coordination

Unifying Efforts to Address Environmental Challenges

Southern Rivers Roundtable

The Southern Rivers Roundtable brings together partners from across the region to collaborate on protecting and enhancing the health of southern Virginia’s waterways. Through shared research, coordinated planning, and regular meetings, the Roundtable fosters communication among local governments, nonprofits, and state agencies working toward common water quality and conservation goals.

Resilience

Whether it be flood resilience or community resilience broadly, Crater PDC is working to bolster the region’s ability to withstand, recover from, and adapt to changing environmental conditions that threaten safety and wellbeing.  Communities across the Crater Region face flooding hazards from multiple sources, including riverine, tidal, flash, and rainfall-driven events. Many areas also struggle with undersized and outdated stormwater infrastructure, which is increasingly overwhelmed by intensifying rainstorms, which can cause flooding even outside designated floodplains. Crater PDC works closely with localities to provide proactive support in flood prevention, preparedness, and recovery, helping to protect critical infrastructure, homes, and essential services for long-term community resilience.

Crater PDC is currently working with localities and partners to develop the first Crater Regional Resilience Plan–a comprehensive document that explores strategies for local capacity building, vulnerability across multiple types of hazards (flooding, extreme heat, wind, and wildfire), project recommendations across multiple time horizons, and initiatives for Crater PDC to better support the region and serve its localities. This plan is funded by an award from Virginia Department of Conservation & Recreation’s Community Flood Preparedness Fund Round 4.