Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Grundy, VA

Grundy is a town and the county seat of Buchanan County in Virginia's Appalachian coalfields, and it is the county's only incorporated town.

The town had a population of 875 at the 2020 census.

When Buchanan County was established in 1858, the legislation creating it designated a plot of land at the confluence of the Levisa Fork River and Slate Creek as the county seat, the site that became Grundy.

Grundy began as a logging town squeezed onto a narrow strip of flat land along the river, and coal mining later replaced logging as the economic mainstay.

The town has suffered major floods roughly every 20 years since 1937; in April 1977 a catastrophic flood put nearly six feet of water through downtown, killed three people, and caused about $15 million in damage.

In a one-of-a-kind federal floodproofing and revitalization project, much of Grundy's downtown is being physically relocated to higher ground blasted from the mountainside across the river.

Grundy is home to the Appalachian School of Law, a private law school that admitted its first class in 1997 and gained full American Bar Association accreditation in 2006.

Buchanan County deliberately recruited the law school to Grundy as an economic development tool to revive a town in decline since the 1977 flood, and the school is estimated to bring about $12 million a year into the local economy.

The same redevelopment effort led to the Appalachian College of Pharmacy, which opened in 2005 in nearby Oakwood.

Census Bureau survey estimates for 2020–2024 describe Grundy as an older community, with a median age of about 52 years.