With a crucial meeting of the State Water Control Board looming next month on water-quality reviews for a pair of contentious natural gas pipelines, Democratic state lawmakers again urged Gov. Ralph Northam Thursday to halt the projects and insist on a stream-by-stream review of the hundreds of spots where they will cross Virginia waterways. In a separate letter last week, Sen. John Edwards, D-Roanoke, also urged Northam to put a stop to the MVP construction. “We also ask you to direct the DEQ to stop work on all construction activities for these two projects until those analyses are complete,” they wrote. Northam on pipelines July 26, 2018.