A Cleaner River Starts Here!
RIVERFest 2014
is in the works!
Check back soon
for more information
on how you can become part of this day-long celebration promoting
the restoration of
the Lafayette River!
For more information call:
(757) 399-7487
RIVERFest 2013: Huge Momentum for Swimmin' By Next Year!
THANK YOU to everyone who turned out for by far our biggest Lafayette RIVERFest yet on Saturday April 27, 2013.
  • Ayme Becnel of Norfolk, a new River Star Home, won the drawing for the stand up paddleboard donated by Michael Dolsey Designs
  • Attendance of 3000+ means the festival has doubled since we and many partners, led by City of Nofolk, started Lafayette RiverFest in 2011
  • Elizabeth River Project exceeded our goal of signing up 200 new River Star Homes, signing up 227 (total River Star Homes, committed to 7 easy steps to help the river, now exceeds 1500)
  • A 13-year-old pug nose named Isabel won Canine Crusader for Clean Waterways through a Facebook contest with City of Norfolk
  • Student-painted rain barrels sold out - all 17 of them, painted with a river theme by Norfolk Public Schools
"Keep up this high energy until next year's RiverFest, and I am sure we will all be swimming," said Marjorie Mayfield Jackson, Executive Director, Elizabeth River Project.

The Elizabeth River Project is coordinating community-wide efforts to make the Lafayette the first branch of the Elizabeth to be safe for swimming and eating oysters. Scientists at the festival's Science Dome presented a scorecard with the Lafayette getting all C's except for one B for 2013 data findings.
Many THANKS to our Sponsors for Making RiverFest a Reality!
GOLD LEVEL:
 
     
 
 
BRONZE LEVEL:
NOAA Chesapeake Bay Office, HDR, Doody Calls, Virginia Pilot Association, Dixon Hughes Goodman, Timmons Group, Kimley Horn