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Carter s efforts (he attended most every meeting ever called by engineers and politicians about damming the Rappahannock) earned delays, and Randy Carter invariably took those opportunities to paddle individuals undecided about the Salem Dam down through his favorite 3/4 mile rapids at Kelly’s Ford.
“The Army Engineer Corps seems to have little concern for the destruction of a beautiful white water river, whose wild beauty was made by God and cannot everry be replaced by man. They are ready to flood our most beautiful river sections in order to build a great concrete monument to themselves.
“And right behind them are the Fast Buck Real Estate boys and the fellows waiting to sell the material for the dam, and right behind them are the politicians ready to pour the taxpayers’s money down the drain if it drains into supporters’ backyards,” he wrote in his book on canoeing.
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