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LORI WAS DIAGNOSED AT AGE 3 MONTHS OLD, WEIGHING ONLY 5LBS. LITERALLY SHE HAS LIVED EVERYDAY OF HER LIFE WITH THIS WICKED DISABILITY "CYSTIC FIBROSIS" SHE VISITS DUKE UNIVERSITY AT LEAST 4 TIMES A YEAR FOR CHECK-UPS & REHAB. ALSO OTHER STAYS AT VCU MEDICAL CENTER IN RICHMOND VA. SPENDING AT LEAST 8/12 WEEKS IN HOSPITAL. SHE IS 22 YRS OLD & A MECHANICSVILLE NATIVE. CYSTIC FIBROSIS ATTACKS THE RESPIRATORY SYSTEM, LUNGS, ESSENTUALLY CAUSING HER TO DROWN.....EVERY DAY. DAILY THERAPY OF BACK & CHEST HELP BREAK UP ANY FLUID BUILDUP. LORI JO WAS NOT EXPECTED TO LIVE PAST AGE 6... JUST SHOWS HOW MUCH OF A FIGHTER AND A TROOPER SHE IS... HELP US, HELP HER- here is her sister Brandi-lori jo fund any union First market Bank too

Ann Mallek is Chair of the Albemarle County Board of Supervisors, and has served on the board since 2008. She also runs a family farm, Currituck Farm, in Earlysville, where she raises grass-fed beef.  Jon Devine is the senior attorney for Water for NRDC. Either are available for phone interview from today through May 18 to discuss:

ü  In Virginia, approximately 57 percent of streams are headwaters, and 30 percent of streams do not flow year-round.*  (*Those categories can overlap, which is why they can add to more than 100%.)

ü  In addition, there are 536 industrial and municipal sources permitted to discharge into headwaters and 234 such sources that are authorized to discharge into irregularly-flowing streams.  If the Clean Water Act does not cover those waterways, those sources can get rid of their permit under the federal law, along with the pollution controls their permits require. 

ü  Finally, 2,364,709 people in the state get their drinking water from systems that draw some or all of their supply from headwater or irregularly-flowing streams.

ü  The 2012 guidance will exclude artificial waters and preserve the existing  exemptions for farming, forestry, mining and certain other land use activities.

ü  How the new guidance will more clearly protect our waterways at risk.

ü  Why this new guidance will improve protections for small streams and wetlands that safeguard downstream communities from flooding

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