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Poague Run Watershed Demonstration and Education Site The Poague Run Watershed is a 2,858.3 acre mixed agricultural/urban watershed situated along a highly travelled entrance corridor to the City of Staunton, the county seat of the second largest agricultural-producing county in Virginia. It is in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.  Poague Run is a tributary of Lewis Creek which is on the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality’s Impaired Waters 303(d) TMDL Priority List for excessive bacteria and an inability to support aquatic life. This Project partners will take a two-pronged approach concentrating on both the urban and agricultural portions of the watershed. Partners will demonstrate that agriculture, riparian buffers, clean streams and trout, bird and pollinator habitat go together, while encouraging the urban residents of this watershed to do their part in keeping this watershed clean. We will use this project to encourage watershed rehabilitation and restoration in agricultural, residential, and commercial sites throughout the entire Poague Run watershed.  (Augusta County) Poague Run Newsletter Volume I July 2010