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frayed by the Kelly’s Fords rapids of the Rappahannock near Remington, and he had just sent off to the printers the seventh edition of “White Water Canoeing in Virginia and West Virginia.”
Perhaps it has been Randy Carter’s efforts, more than any other person’s that has postponed the building of the Salem Church Dam on the Rappahannock, what Carter called the Corps of Engineers’ “great concrete monument to themselves.”
The dam would back water over two day's of paddling on a river unchanged since the days it separated the Union and Confederate armies, would quiet the rapids at the confluence of the Rapidan and Rappahannock, and Kelly’s Ford, ideal white water for the open canoe.
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