Environmental groups in Hampton Roads often conduct yearly or biennial health assessments of waterways, such as the Elizabeth and James rivers and Chesapeake Bay writ large.
A new report is the first in 25 years to focus on the York River watershed, a sprawling ecosystem home to more than 630,000 people, stretching from Yorktown and the Middle Peninsula north to Lake Anna and the Mattaponi River.
The State of the York was spearheaded by the Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve in Virginia, which operates out of William & Mary’s Virginia Institute of Marine Science in Gloucester Point…