Mountain Valley Pipeline in Our Backyards Harm Our Waters and Communities
Since construction began in early 2018, the Mountain Valley Pipeline (MVP) has resulted in nearly 1,500 pollution incidents and violations in Virginia alone. These include:
• 113 times when Mountain Valley made measurable sediment deposits in waterbodies,
• 684 times when sediment deposits were made on land off the right of way (ROW), and
• 687 times when pollution control structures were undermined, overtopped, overwhelmed, or otherwise bypassed, resulting in discharges of poorly treated or untreated water, in most cases to streams and wetlands.
These findings are based on a comprehensive review of 980 inspection reports from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and 5,352 reports of “action items” prepared by DEQ’s contract inspectors.*
Each time sediment is released from the MVP work sites, adjacent properties are affected, sometimes causing severe damages.
This information is taken from Mountain Valley Pipeline Pollution in Virginia Watersheds, Wild Virginia, February 2023.
MOUNTAIN VALLEY PIPELINE VIOLATIONS
The photographs and descriptions here show some of the MVP impacts that have plagued landowners and damaged our precious natural resources.
The following images show more of the sediment deposits MVP caused in streams and wetlands
and onto adjacent properties.
