Friends of Lake Anna

Sugar called this morning to say that she has joined a new environmental group called Friends of Lake Anna. They are meeting Friday morning to get everyone around the lake involved in petitioning the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, local governments, and the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to keep the lake from getting too hot when new reactors are built in 20 years at the North Anna Nuclear Power Plant. The warm side of the lake, the cooling lagoons, are already as hot as a hot tub, and people are worried that the water gets much hotter in the warm and "cold" sides of the lake, it will be harmful to people and the environment. Sugar is going to help with the petition drive, she said.