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ties to the county will discuss the Thornton River and the importance of healthy streams in the county. The panel includes:

• Charles “Pete” Estes, chairman of the Rappahannock County Board of Supervisors who will describe the county’s experience with a very polluted Thornton River back in the 1950s, caused by human waste and other pollutants openly flowing into the river. There was also a bout with chlorine that killed fish in the South Branch of the Thornton River when the sewerage treatment plant in Sperryville first opened;

See WATER, Page A8

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