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By Mary Beth Martin

Rappahannock News Staff Writer

Hal Wiggins, ajj, environmental scientist who works for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, presented an informative talk at the library about the benefits of woodland along streams and rivers, technically called riparian buffers and water quality best-management practices.

Water quality is fast becoming a critical issue in Virginia and surrounding states.; Hunt Harris of Rappahannock’s Ragged Mountain Resource Center said, according to marine biologists, the last two years of flooding has brought many nutrients down river in non-point pollution. It is contributing to the “cell from hell” which is attack

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