Accomplishments

Building Community Trust

By initiating a community dialogue, the V-REMS partnership develops trust between its community partners and allows them to develop a “common language” to address environmental issues.  The V-REMS partnership anticipates and identifies community challenges and then develops and shares solutions across the partnership that minimize the partners’ environmental risks.

  • The V-REMS partnership established trust between the DSCR and its community and allowed the DSCR to address its local stakeholders’ concerns regarding remediation issues at the facility. 

  • The V-REMS partnership has facilitated healthy and trusting relationships between its participants and the Virginia DEQ, an active participant in the V-REMS partnership.  The Virginia DEQ views the V-REMS partnership as a critical tool for providing the region with a common approach to environmental challenges.