State regulators are heightening their scrutiny of plans to control the muddy and sediment-laden storm water likely to flow from the construction of a natural gas pipeline through Southwest Virginia.
While it marks a change in procedure, the move is likely to have little effect on a process that is nearly complete.
Before work on the Mountain Valley Pipeline can begin, the State Water Control Board will receive a report on how erosion, sediment and rainfall runoff will be regulated, the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality announced Friday.
