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sons that would be the end of life as we know it.
According to a VDOT official, the public can be assured that the weed-killing chemicals that the Virginia Department of Transportation is spraying on the median of Route 211 are meant to help farmers and adjacent landowners, and not to despoil the environment.
“By eradicating these weeds, we are trying to be good neighbors,” said Bill Watson, VDOT’s Roadside Division Manager for the Culpeper District. He manages vegetation on the state’s rights of way in nine counties including
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