November 27, 2020
Mount Vernonite Don Robinson helped with the river's shad restoration project, led by Jim Cummins of the Interstate Commission, on the Potomac River Basin.
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The Potomac River, a Stalling Recovery?
Cleaner than it was in 2011 when it got a D, but “its recovery is plateauing.”
While the Potomac River is clearly not what the Washington Post in 1951 called an “open sewer,” for the first time in a decade, the river’s health has declined, reported the Potomac Conservancy last month, falling from a grade of B to B- and still unsafe for swimming or fishing.
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