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PROBLEM

Learn more about the challenges Brown Grove is working diligently to solve, including but not limited to:

Wegmans
Landfill
Residential Community Being Industrialized

Resident feels unheard and ignored. Their history, health and safety is being put at risk.

Brown Grove is a historically Black community now listed in the National Register of Historic Places (2022).

We are a community descended from formerly enslaved people. In the last 50 years, the Brown Grove community has been impacted by industrial encroachment.

In the last 50 yeas, the Brown Grove community has been impacted by a landfill, a concrete plant, a municipal airport, I-95, and industrial development.

The community now faces a 1.1 million square ft. Wegmans distribution center only yards from their homes. This facility will serve the entire Mid-Atlantic region and will destroy a whopping 15 acres of protected wetlands and the unmarked graves of community ancestors.

The Northam administration complained after Delegate Elizabeth Guzman called for a relocation and the US Army Corps of Engineers and the VA Department of Environmental Quality aren't following appropriate procedure.

Wegmans will generate an estimated 2,864 additional vehicle trips per day

Fumes from diesel trucks daily

24-hour noise from the distribution center and truck traffic

Increase in accidents on a residential road

24-hour lights shining in the community

Destruction of wetlands causing more flooding on roads and resident property

Disturbance of African American Burial Ground

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