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a ting dead zones where aquatic animals cannot breathe.
Our runoff impacts
the Rappahannock River, the Chesapeake
Bay, and other
communities
All 755 miles of streams here in Rappahannock County (headwaters of the Rappahannock River Basin) eventually drain to the Rappahannock River and thence to the Chesapeake Bay. The Rappahannock River and the Chesapeake Bay are degraded. Excess amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment flow into the bay and its tributaries from land, the air, wastewater treatment plants and industrial facilities. These nutrients and sediments foul our waters and harm the water supplies of communities downstream from us, and also finfish, shellfish, aquatic plants and other organisms that make up the Bay's fragile ecosystems. We also suffer economically from impaired waters. The living resources of the rivers, the Bay and their economic potential are compromised by poor water quality. Commercial and recreational
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