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tne ract in&t ww 1 Fredericksburg' Is the tidewater section of the Rappahannock, lapping at Its very door Aep and stretching a hundred miles away on out into the Atlantic Ocean. :
This recreational lake is al- j
ready there, beautiful and vast I and not costing the taxpayer
: one cent Great and free as is j this age-old tidewater lake at ; Fredericksburg, not many peo- ]
pie use it for boating and fish- j tag. So why destroy the valleys and natural beauty of the Rappahannock and Rapldan and flood out hundreds of families to make more water that will not be used?
Who wants this great lake anyway? For one, the city of Fredericksburg because it will save expense on a new water system for the town. Another great force pushing for this dam is the Army Engineer Corps. They need to keep their Jobs and are looking for great projects to keep a tremendous force of personnel. This is like the old admirals who wanted to build more costly battleships with taxpayers’ money In order to keep their jobs and their floating palaces, while playing j down the. fact that airplanes had ‘made battleships useless. This great self-perpetuating lobby is continually looking for ways to Justify its immense payroll before Congress.
Another great lobby wbrking steadily in the halls of Congress and the Senate is the powerboat lobby—the more lakes the more equipment they can sell to the public. Hence they want every river, no matter how naturally beautiful, dammed to make a new sales area.
These 21,000 acres the Army wants to flood are already a great recreational area. It affords excellent hunting and natural park areas. It has the only beautiful fast water river left on the Atlantic Coast that is not ruined either by dams or city sewerage. Why destroy this last white water river ? It is unsurpassed for canoeing and fast water fishing on the East coast. It is now used for these
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