The State Water Study Commission was continued in 1981 pursuant to Senate Joint Resolution No. 152. The membership of the Commission. expanded in 1981, was as follows: Delegates Lewis W. Parker, Jr., L. Ray Ashworth, Gerald L. Baliles, J. Paul Councill, Jr., James H. Dillard, II, Glenn B. McClanan, Owen B. Pickett, and Clifton A. Woodrum; Senators Charles J. Colgan, Howard P. Anderson, Wiley F. Mitchell, Jr., William T. Parker, and Stanley C. Walker; and citizen members Louis L. Guy, Jr., Robert R. Peters, J. Lewis Rawls, Jr., and George W. Williams. George M. Cornell continued to serve ex officio.

In January, 1982, L. Ray Ashworth and Gerald L. Baliles left the Commission, and Delegate James B. Murray joined it.

Lewis W. Parker, Jr., and Charles J. Colgan were chosen chairman and vice chairman, respectively, at the Commission's initial 1981 meeting.