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This law was first created in 2002. The record of its establishment is cataloged in chapter 708<\/a> of that year\u2019s edition of \u201cActs of Assembly,\u201d the annual state publication listing all changes made to the Code of Virginia in that year. It has been modified 1 time. Those modifications are cataloged by \u201cThe Acts of Assembly,\u201d a state publication, by year and chapter. Those modifications that can be read on the General Assembly\u2019s website will be linked accordingly. That modification is as follows: in 2007, chapter 29<\/a>.<\/p>","references":false,"refers_to":[{"id":67779,"section_number":"62.1-44.19:5","catch_line":"Water quality monitoring and reporting","order_by":null,"url":"\/62.1-44.19_5\/"}],"permalink":{"id":269877,"object_type":"law","relational_id":55450,"identifier":"62.1-44.19:11","token":"62.1\/3.1\/4.01\/62.1-44.19_11","url":"\/62.1-44.19_11\/","edition_id":1,"permalink":0,"preferred":1},"url":"\/62.1-44.19_11\/","token":"62.1\/3.1\/4.01\/62.1-44.19_11","dublin_core":{"Title":"Citizen water quality monitoring program","Type":"Text","Format":"text\/html","Identifier":"\u00a7 62.1-44.19:11","Relation":"Code of Virginia"},"html":"\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

A.<\/span> The Department<\/span> of Environmental Quality shall establish a citizen water quality monitoring program to provide technical assistance and may provide grants to support citizen water quality monitoring groups if (i) the monitoring is done pursuant to a memorandum<\/span> of agreement with the Department<\/span>, (ii) the project or activity is consistent with the Department<\/span> of Environmental Quality’s water quality monitoring program, (iii) the monitoring is conducted in a manner consistent with the Virginia Citizens Monitoring Methods Manual, and (iv) the location of the water quality monitoring activity is part of the water quality control plan required under § 62.1-44.19:5<\/a>. The results of such citizen monitoring shall not be used as evidence<\/span> in any enforcement action. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t

B.<\/span> It shall be the goal of the Department<\/span> to encourage citizen water quality monitoring so that 3,000 stream miles are monitored by volunteer citizens by 2010. <\/i><\/a><\/p><\/section>","plain_text":" CODE OF VIRGINIA\n\nCITIZEN WATER QUALITY MONITORING PROGRAM (\u00a7 62.1-44.19:11)\n\nA. The Department of Environmental Quality shall establish a citizen water\nquality monitoring program to provide technical assistance and may provide\ngrants to support citizen water quality monitoring groups if (i) the monitoring\nis done pursuant to a memorandum of agreement with the Department, (ii) the\nproject or activity is consistent with the Department of Environmental\nQuality’s water quality monitoring program, (iii) the monitoring is\nconducted in a manner consistent with the Virginia Citizens Monitoring Methods\nManual, and (iv) the location of the water quality monitoring activity is part\nof the water quality control plan required under § 62.1-44.19:5. The\nresults of such citizen monitoring shall not be used as evidence in any\nenforcement action.\n\nB. It shall be the goal of the Department to encourage citizen water quality\nmonitoring so that 3,000 stream miles are monitored by volunteer citizens by\n2010.\n\nHISTORY: 2002, c. 708; 2007, c. 29.","edition":{"id":1,"name":"2025","slug":"2025","date_created":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","date_modified":"2026-06-21 22:39:22","current":1,"order_by":1,"last_import":null}}