UVa cut their water usage after our last serious drought, but their usage has climbed every year for three years.
News and meta-news about Charlottesville, VA, since 2001.
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UVA graduation is this weekend (May 20th). Consider yourself warned. #
Theodore Roosevelt’s Albemarle retreat, Pine Knot, is looking to become more well known and accessible. #
Tablet computers are working out pretty well in city schools. #
VDOT got seven bids for the Western Bypass, but they’re secret until one is selected in June. #
One small car part is the sole evidence of who killed a Waynesboro woman in a hit-and-run on Saturday. The community at Jalopnik figured it out—it’s from the grille of a 2003 Ford F150 XL. #
Does the city have the power to set the speed on the bypass so ridiculously low? Several people argue that it does not. #
Council has again shot down the police department’s request for funding to put CCTV security cameras all along the Downtown Mall. #
A little light reading: Charlottesville’s charter. These are the rules, set by the legislature, under which C’ville exists. #
The plan for Shoppers World has been made public. Stein Mart and DSW will moving in to the complex recently vacated by Whole Foods. #
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When will they step up their attention to these issues. Water, their dirty coal plant, encouraging traffic with new parking decks everywhere, and on and on….
UVA has done an incredible job in reducing daily water consumption in dormitories and cafeterias. They are currently engaged in a massive amount of construction and of course their water consumption will go up. Fortunately, the water consumption will go down with construction is complete. UVA has installed a ton of water-saving devices around grounds and has a on-going campaign to educate its citizens about ecological matters in general and water usage and recycling in particular. It has begun to not using lunch trays to cut back on water usage. I dare say, the citizens of Chalbemarle have a long ways to go to emulate UVA’s efforts.
As far as traffic goes, congestion in the university area is so much less, in opinion, than it was say twenty years ago, I expect to see a few horse and buggy riders each time I go through there. You can actually see spaces between the cars.