Spring Valley Technology Park

The Spring Valley Technology Park is a proposed 362-acre data center campus to be located off of Evergreen Mills Road. This project would destroy swaths of mature forests and create excessive impervious surfaces close to Goose Creek. If approved, it could add up to 3.5 million more square feet of data center servers that would further stress our power grid and exacerbate Loudoun’s energy crisis by an order of magnitude. Read more about the data center campus.

The 2025 Virginia General Assembly

The 2025 General Assembly session has come to an end, and the Governor has completed his review of the bills that passed through the Senate and House of Delegates. Now that the session has concluded, you can see the list of bills for wildlife in Loudoun that the Governor has signed into law, and the full list of all successful and failed bills we tracked on the General Assembly page.

Dominion Energy Infrastructure Development Projects

To meet heightened energy demand coming from the increase of data centers in the county, Dominion Energy has started the process of building new major transmission lines, substations, and infrastructure linkages. This mult-year, multi-project expansion currently includes a new high voltage transmission line along Broad Run between Northstar Blvd. and Loudoun County Parkway; a series of substations adjacent to Goose Creek and Belmont Ridge Road; and new transmission lines along Route 7 and Loudoun County Parkway. Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy has grave concerns about these applications. The proposed locations of these infrastructure improvements would further fragment habitat within the Goose Creek and Broad Run riparian buffer and floodplain creating more challenges to wildlife and the ecosystem as a whole. Learn more about these projects and our recommendations:

• Twin Creeks to Apollo and Aspen to Golden projects (Updated August 23, 2024)
• Wishing Star to Mars project
• Mars to Golden Project

Leesburg W&OD Trail Lighting

A proposal is being discussed with the Leesburg Town Council to add lighting to a portion of the W&OD trail south of Leesburg. Loudoun Wildlife Conservancy has been working with our partners Northern Virginia Bird Alliance and Dark Sky NOVA to advocate for minimizing the impacts of the proposed lights on dark skies and wildlife as part of the collaborative Bird-Safe NOVA campaign. While specific designs are still being developed, we are pleased to see that the Town of Leesburg is demonstrating notable efforts to implement sustainable and minimally disruptive lighting for this project.