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“Direct loss of forested and open field habitat will occur,” the report reads. Several hundred acres of agricultural and forestal districts in Fauquier and Loudoun counties would be crossed by two of the western corridors.
Possible impacts on the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal, the Washington and Old Dominion Trail, Balls Bluff National Cemetery, the National Institutes of Health animal farm, Sugarloaf Mountain, the Patuxent River watershed and proposed parks at Symington and Temple Hill are cited in the report.
The report notes that ‘the quality of the Chesapeake Bay depends on its watershed.”
No state-designated wetands in Virginia would be crossed by a western bypass. But other non-tidal wetlands, esepcially “forested wetlands” could be impacted, according to the report.
The report singles out Goose Creek as one of several major environmental concerns in Virginia.
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