Summary
Here are sure signs of spring: Bluebirds and robins visit backyards everywhere, daffodils and weeping cherry trees bloom and environmental officials in Virginia wonder where the next freshwater river fish kill will take place.
Let's face it. Virginia is beset with thoughts of gloom and doom when it comes to its rivers and the creatures who call those rivers home - and it has good reasons to worry. The Shenandoah River has had a steady string of unexplained fish kills; the upper James and Cowpasture rivers have seen smallmouth bass die inexplicably. In years gone by, the lower James River had fish die by the thousands when a chemical company dumped toxic Kepone into the river in the town of Hopewell. The list goes on with mercury pollution in parts of the Shenandoah in the 1970s.See the full content of this document
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Fish Kills Continue to Worry Virginia
None of the known offenders then suffered great financial hardships because of the misdeeds. In fact, it doesn't sound unreasonable to suspect that various...
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