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The Board of Supervisors

and others are currently debating whether to support designation of the Hazel River as a “State Exceptional Water,” which is also known as “Tier III status.” As a landowner with property along both sides of the Hazel River in the Hawthorne District, I strongly support this designation.

Over the past quarter of a century, I’ve seen one river after another succumb to the harmful effects of unrestrained development in Virginia and elsewhere in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. As a result, there are today few rivers in Virginia like the Hazel that remain truly

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