Potomac Basin

Vol. 63, No. 3 Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin May/June 2007

D. Kain/Va. DEQ A redbreast sunfish taken from the upper James River. The lesion on this fish is typical of the fish kills occurring in the Shenandoah and South Branch Potomac watersheds.

Potomac Murder Mystery Shenandoah, South Branch Fish Kills Continue

While the Potomac River Ramble satisfaction–five years after the kills began, paddle trip was in Harpers Ferry, W.Va., the culprits have not been identified. one of the Ramblers talked about his The Shenandoah Fish Kill Task Force, livelihood as part of a company that formed in 2004, has worked relentlessly in produces weekend murder mysteries. He studying the kills. The task force, coordinated produces several in Harpers Ferry each by the Virginia Department of Environmental year. They are very popular–people love a Quality (DEQ) and the Virginia Department good murder mystery, he noted. Especially of Game and Inland Fisheries, also includes when the murder is solved at the end of representatives of the U.S. Geological the weekend. Survey, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Biologists and others studying die-offs Forest Service, West Virginia Department of of smallmouth bass and some other Environmental Protection, several species in segments of the Shenandoah universities, and watershed groups. Task and its tributaries, the South Branch force members continue to cooperatively Potomac, and just this season in the examine diseased fish, intensely monitor upper James River basin are similarly water quality, and use sensors to sample trying to solve a murder mystery, but they water for tiny amounts of toxic or hormone- aren’t getting much murder mystery mimicking substances that might lead to an

424071.pmd 1 7/5/2007, 11:56 AM Our mission is to enhance, protect and conserve the water and associated land resources of the answer (see March/April 2007 Reporter). Potomac River and its The scenario has been the same each tributaries through year for the fish, with the locations changing somewhat from year to year. Each spring regional and interstate brings a new outbreak, primarily smallmouth bass, that get burn-like lesions on their cooperation. bodies, and don’t behave normally. As time goes on, researchers find small to ICPRB moderate kills, often just a few fish at a time as a river segment is patrolled. As the COMMISSIONERS season progresses, the situation seems more like a continuous, low-level kill, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Hamid according to some researchers. Unaffected Karimi*, Anne D. Snodgrass, Alternate; fish are found in the same areas as those Lloyd Preslar; John R. Wennersten, with lesions. Later in the summer, the kills Alternate; subside, and fish are captured that show lesions that are healing. : Gov. Martin O’Malley, Many ideas for the causes of the kills Robert M. Summers*, Alternate; James circulate, including a mutated pathogen, H. Gilford, Minny Pohlmann, Alternate; toxic or hormone-like chemicals related to George H. Shoemaker, John Parran agricultural operations or sewage plants Bowling, Alternate that may be hampering fish’s ability to resist bacteria or viruses, or other contamination. PENNSYLVANIA: John T. Hines, Lori Another hypothesis is that because the kills Mohr, Alternate; Rep. Bob Bastian, tend to end in summer, there may be a Alternate; Roger C. Steele, Alternate pathogen that is strong in the cooler spring waters, but dies out or becomes inactive VIRGINIA: John D. Markley, Jr., Andrew when temperatures climb. Research has H. Macdonald*, Alternate; Del. Joe T. proven none of the ideas, nor ruled them May, Del. Marian Van Landingham, out. A general point of agreement is that there Alternate; David K. Paylor, Scott W. probably are multiple stresses that interfere Kudlas, Alternate; with the fishes’ immune response, making them susceptible to infections they might WEST VIRGINIA: Marten R. Jenkins, Jr., otherwise resist. Researchers hope to know Phyllis M. Cole, Alternate; Del. Harold K. more when they have sorted through all the Michael; Stephanie R. Timmermeyer, information collected this spring. William D. Brannon*, Alternate; There are some differences with this year’s event, compared with previous : J. Winston Porter*, seasons. Task force co-chairman Don Kain Frederick R. Eames, Alternate; George of DEQ has observed that this year’s kills Reiger, Mel M. Baughman, Alternate; are strange in that “They seem to be at one Jane G. Witheridge, Howard Graeffe, place on one day, and at another the next.” Alternate He noted it is hard to determine the persistence of the kills, or the amount of *Executive Committee Member adult fish lost overall. Researchers were surprised when a similar kill was observed in the upper ICPRB Officers: James River system this year, including the Hamid Karimi,Chairman Cowpasture River, a tributary. Early on in Robert M. Summers, Vice Chairman the investigations into the kills, the Joseph K. Hoffman, Executive Director Cowpasture was selected as a control river Robert L. Bolle, General Counsel for study. As a control, the Cowpasture was used as a relatively clean benchmark river to compare with the Shenandoah system. Commissioners and their alternates are “The kills on the Cowpasture threw appointed by the state’s governors, the everybody for a loop,” said Jeff Kelble, the mayor of the District of Columbia, and the Shenandoah Riverkeeper. But in retrospect, President of the United States. it shouldn’t have, he noted. Kelble, who has researched the kills, did some research on

424071.pmd 2 7/6/2007, 9:52 AM the Cowpasture River, and found “a significant number of poultry operations in Anglers Asked to Protect the watershed that weren’t accounted for before,” and that his research has revealed Against Whirling Disease that a significant amount of poultry litter Smallmouth bass in the upper parts of was being imported into the watershed for the basin aren’t the only species spreading on fields. experiencing problems. The Maryland Kain is hopeful that the data collected Department of Natural Resources has this year will help bring an answer for the destroyed more than 150,000 trout being fish kills. He noted that the task force has raised at trout rearing facilities for been looking in a variety of directions, and distribution in the state’s rivers after that the inclusive, open nature of the task whirling disease was found. The disease force keeps the group open to new ideas– is a parasite fatal to trout. It deforms trout especially since an answer is yet to be skeletons, and the fish lose the ability to found. The intensive studying of the swim straight. Shenandoah watershed is also providing a To reduce the likelihood of spreading tremendous baseline for looking at the the spores of the organism, the Maryland watershed, Kain added. “All the attention Department of Natural Resources is also helps to educate about the stresses on asking trout anglers not to move caught the river that we do know about–nutrient fish from one stream to another, not to loadings, development pressures–its all discard carcasses in the stream or on the being discussed to a higher degree,” he stream banks, and to remove mud from said. boots and equipment before moving Virginia is strongly supporting the task from one stream to another. force’s efforts, providing $150,000 so that the investigation can continue.

Potomac River Ramble 2007 Through Whitewater, Thunderstorms, and Comradery, Ramblers Get a New View of Potomac

C. Dalpra Ramblers arriving at Point of Rocks.

Most residents of the basin have some familiarized Ramblers with the river’s fish impression of the Potomac River, often from and aquatic insects, the birds that fly over it newspaper articles about one issue or and the trees and plants that grow along its another, or from the commuting experience banks. of driving over or alongside it. Those The 2007 Potomac River Ramble kicked impressions evolve and blossom when off on Wednesday evening, June 6, at the those same people spend several days on, National Conservation Training Center in and occasionally in the river. Shepherdstown, W.Va. The center graciously Many of the more than 25 people who allowed the group to camp on its riverside signed on for the Potomac River Ramble, property. A leave-no-trace fire was made on which over four days covered nearly 40 a mound of deposited Potomac sediment miles of the Potomac came away from the and ICPRB’s Watershed Coordinator, Adam four-day paddle with a new perspective Griggs attempted to call owls using owl- about the Nation’s River. “I’ll never be able ringtones stored on his cell phone, but it to look at the river, or read about it, without seemed nobody was home. thinking about all the things I’ve learned, On Thursday morning, the group got off to and how important the river is in our daily a good start. Elevated water levels and lives,” noted one paddler after her first trip eager arms helped the group complete the down the river. Her comments eloquently first 10 miles before lunch in only 2.5 hours. summed up much of the feedback offered This section of the river is spotted with about the trip, which featured programs that occasional riffles but is mostly slow, flat,

424071.pmd 3 7/6/2007, 9:53 AM water popular with power boaters and jet unwelcome at the time, but useful for skiers. getting downstream the next day. The group During a lunch stop at the Shepherdstown actually got off easy, as the crackling radio boat launch, the group met with forecast 60 mile-per-hour winds and hail representatives of Mirant Mid-Atlantic, a that thankfully never came. River Ramble sponsor and donator of that Saturday would bring another day of day’s lunch. Mirant took the time to educate great weather and the largest rapids of the the Ramblers about their mission to trip, Mad Dog and White Horse. The upgrade their three area coal-burning majority of Ramblers came through just power plants to meet more stringent fine, but a pair of canoes and their Maryland air pollution standards three years ahead of schedule. The discussion broadened into the generation of electricity in general, and how it might change in the future. That evening found the Ramblers at the Antietam campground along the C&O National Historical Park, where a few more people joined the group. Jen Dotson, C. Dalpra ICPRB’s certified arborist, Ramblers check their seine net to gather and identify the great variety of bugs and fish that call the riverbed home. took the group on a riparian tree walk along the towpath, pointing out natives such as swimmers were reeled in after swamping Hackberry, Sycamore, Osage Orange, and out in the wave trains. The great weather Box Elder amongst invasive species like actually made a short swim through the the Tree of Heaven. Ramblers were shown waves to shore a refreshing experience. how to avoid the dreaded poison ivy and Potomac wildlife was the theme of this stinging nettle, which was very successful. day as the group passed by an active None of the Ramblers were unduly itching Heron rookery, and saw Bald Eagles and at the end of the trip. Great Egrets on their way downstream. The On Friday morning, coffee ran hot and lunch program consisted of sampling and nerves were cold as the ramblers, some of seining for insects and fish that live in the them first-time paddlers, prepared for a day Potomac’s waters. ICPRB biologists Jim of whitewater on the Needles section Cummins and Adam Griggs were on hand upstream of Harpers Ferry. Mike Dudash, a to identify the various insects and fish highly energized kayak instructor from collected in the seine nets, including River and Trail Outfitters, came on at the mayflies, water pennies, fallfish, smallmouth lunch stop to help prepare the group for the bass, and spotfin shiners, and other upcoming whitewater. The Needles consist creatures. The trip was laced with special, of Class I and II rapids that require some simple moments that stay in memory. One technical turning due to the striated example happened on an afternoon break geologic formation that runs across the that found many of the party pulled up on a Shenandoah River, Harpers Ferry, and the shady shoreline. This editor’s boat was Potomac River. The entire group, from along shore, anchored by a stand of water seniors with no experience to minors, made willow that ran from out in the river to about it through the big waves without a hitch. 20 yards in-shore. A very young deer, about Harpers Ferry National Historic Park, golden retriever size, ventured out of the where the Shenandoah River joins the brush and almost to the boat before Potomac, provided a riverside campsite that pausing, and after a surprised stare, evening. The Ramblers were joined at the ambled back into the woods. A river trip is site by another paddling group finishing the often filled with such chance meetings. Shenandoah Sojourn. Programs included a Once at Brunswick, the group caught the guided tour of the historic town by NPS staff tail end of the Potomac River Family and some traditional period music from a Festival and indulged in snow cones and string band complete with cloggers. There lemonade. The group was greeted by also was an informal remembrance of Carroll Jones, Mayor of Brunswick, who told ICPRB Pennsylvania Commissioner Bill the group about development in the town, Plank, a longtime participant in the Rambles, and the enhanced nutrient removal who died in January after a car accident wastewater treatment plant being and to whom the trip was dedicated. The constructed to handle sewage. His festivities went on despite a strong discussion with the group on planning for thunderstorm that dumped a lot of rain, increased population while trying to

424071.pmd 4 7/5/2007, 11:56 AM preserve the town’s homey feel and rural great time. Besides getting good advice on nature is one being had in many growing canoe techniques, learning about the communities along the Potomac. efforts of the coal-fired electric plants to Continuing with the wildlife theme later reduce emissions, white water safety, tree in the evening, Adam Griggs called in a identification, stream bugs and their barred owl, this time without using his importance as indicators of water quality, phone, and it alighted in the center of camp and why gages are important, made the where it continued to hoot loudly until 1:30 Ramble an informative trip. Despite my old in the morning. age, I learned a lot! Sunday, the final day, found the Ramblers “In addition to its importance as a water paddling to Point of Rocks for a lunch stop. supply for residential and commercial use, The historic narrows is the site of the oldest it is important to have a clean and adequate U.S. Geological Survey stream gage in the Potomac available for recreational boating watershed, and one of the oldest in the and fishing; to be able to enjoy ‘the great nation, beginning operation in 1895. The outdoors,’ cast a line and reel in a fish, have group learned about the gage, one of more an opportunity to get your adrenaline than 100 in the watershed that provide pumping as you cascade through the information used in managing floods and Needles and White Horse Rapids. Being droughts, recreational safety, and other on and in the water makes one appreciate scientific uses. what a valuable resource it is. Many thanks After another couple of hours, the to ICPRB and the trip sponsors for providing Ramblers reached the end of the float, us an opportunity to get ‘into’ the river.” landing at the Tarara Winery near Many similar emails were received. Leesburg, Va., in the afternoon, with time to The ICPRB thanks the many sponsors do some wine tasting and have some that made this trip possible. Sponsors relaxed goodbyes. included the Washington Suburban The following week, Ramblers began Sanitary Commission, Mirant, PEPCO, sending comments, suggestions, and Washington Gas, and Hunton and Williams photos back to ICPRB, reminding the LLP. Thanks also go to C&O and Harpers recovering staff about the value of the trip. Ferry National Historic Parks and the One Rambler emailed: “We really had a National Conservation Training Center for camping sites, water, and other help, EU Services, which printed flyers and trip brochures, and Tarara Winery, which allowed the Ramblers to park on their property for the duration of the trip. Watch Remembering Bill Plank this space and our website for information on the next Ramble! Pennsylvania Commissioner Bill Plank was a fixture on Potomac River Rambles, and was well known in the Pennsylvania portion of the Potomac basin for his many efforts to protect and ICPRB Honors Potomac preserve the Potomac’s natural resources. The ICPRB is working with several Stewardship other groups, including the Bedford County, Pa., Conservation District, the The Interstate Commission on the Ridge and Valley Streamkeepers Potomac River Basin (ICPRB) honored a watershed group, which he helped form, number of individuals who have helped in the University of Maryland, and the restoring American shad to the Potomac Maryland U.S. Geological Survey to River. Honorees were lauded at the annual implement various environmental National Casting Call, held along the projects in Plank’s memory. Projects Potomac’s shore in Washington, D.C. at include dedication of a stream gage at Fletcher’s Boat House on April 30. Sideling Hill Creek in Plank’s name, Populations of the historically and erecting stream signage, educational economically important fish have been in gardens, a river access project, and decline throughout the Chesapeake Bay other ideas. The coalition is seeking watershed for decades. During that time, cash donations to help. A specific project the migratory fish suffered from poor water can be noted on donations, which quality, obstructions to migrations including should be sent to the Bill Plank Memorial dams and other blockages, and fishing Fund, c/o Ridge and Valley pressure. Streamkeepers, P.O. Box 55, Artemas, The ICPRB began a stocking project in PA 17211-0055. For more information 1995, and with the help of other agencies, call Ronald Stanley at the Streamkeepers volunteers, and school students, have at (814) 784-3652, or email him at placed more than 17-million shad fry in the [email protected] Potomac. The most recent assessments have shown a strong rise in the Potomac

424071.pmd 5 7/6/2007, 9:54 AM during the last several years, helping to jump-start the restoration of American shad on that river. Maryland Congressman Steny Hoyer has done much to protect the Potomac over his career. Hoyer’s support for construction of the fish passageway at the Little Falls Dam in support of the shad restoration project is only one in a long list of accomplishments benefitting the Potomac. He has been a key leader of a number of projects aimed at restoration of the Anacostia River, support C. Dalpra for and participation in the Congressman Jim Moran addresses the crowd, while ICPRB Chairman annual Potomac River Hamid Karimi looks on. Watershed Cleanups, the Potomac Watershed Trash-Free population, which is responsible for most of Initiative and the creation of the Captain the positive upturn in Chesapeake Bay John Smith Water Trail. stocks. Virginia Congressman James Moran has Many groups and individuals are viewed protecting natural resources and responsible for the success of the project the environment as one of his top priorities. which included the government Locally, Moran has enacted legislation to modification of the dam at Little Falls that preserve thousands of acres of open space allowed shad to regain about 10 miles of and facilitated a land exchange protecting upstream spawning and nursery habitat, about 800 acres on Mason Neck. Moran which was completed in 2000. has been very involved in a project along Honorees included: Four Mile Run, aimed at restoring the Maryland Senator , for a watershed shared by Arlington and lifetime of achievement in helping protect Alexandria. He also has been a strong the Potomac. In addition to many, many supporter of the Potomac Heritage National efforts to preserve and restore the river, the Scenic Trail. senator was instrumental in the push to Virginia Delegate Vincent Callahan has modify the dam at Little Falls, which for been a strong supporter of conservation many decades was a barrier to migratory and protection in the Virginia House, where American shad. The construction of the he is chairman of the Appropriations fishway at the dam, which has reopened Committee. In the last legislative session, about 10 miles of river upstream for Delegate Callahan was the patron of a spawning, took many years and could $250 million bond bill that will provide easily have faltered without the efforts of upgrades for sewage treatment plants, people like Senator Sarbanes. His benefitting both the Chesapeake Bay and contributions to many other environmental the Potomac River. He has supported many issues on the Potomac and Chesapeake other funding bills to help restore the Bay are numerous. environment during his tenure. Delegate Virginia Senator John Warner has been a Callahan also served as a Virginia strong proponent of protecting the Commissioner to ICPRB for one term from environment since he was first elected to 1997 to 2001. the Senate in 1979. During his senate Washington, D.C., Representative career, Warner has championed the Eleanor Holmes Norton has strongly Chesapeake Bay Program for restoring the supported a range of environmental efforts bay and the Potomac, and has worked on on both the Potomac and the Anacostia efforts to conserve land and support Rivers. Norton has forwarded development national parks and refuges. Last year, of a 10-year comprehensive action plan for Warner appeared in the movie “On the the Anacostia River and its tributaries. Edge/The Potomac River and Dyke Marsh.” Combined sewer overflows are a major Along with Senator Sarbanes, Warner cause of Anacostia pollution, and its spearheaded the successful effort to remediation is an important part of the bill. establish the Captain John Smith Water She is a member of the Environmental and Trail, the first in the nation. Warner also Energy Study Conference and a member of helped to bring about the removal of the the subcommittee on Water Resources and Embrey Dam on the Rappahannock River, the Environment. reopening historic shad habitat. With U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Virginia Warner’s help, shad fry from the Potomac Coordinator Albert Spells, who, as have been placed in the Rappahannock manager of the Harrison Lake National Fish

424071.pmd 6 7/6/2007, 9:55 AM Hatchery, recognized the vital role it would students involved. play in the project. Albert Spells also spent “While we note the contributions of a few many nights working with ICPRB project individuals who worked very hard on the manager Jim Cummins, including meeting project, thousands of others gave their time him at late hours to transfer the shad eggs and energy to ensure that it would succeed. to the hatchery. Albert went well above and Along the way, we were able to beyond his duties to ensure the project demonstrate to politicians, government would succeed. agencies, and the general public that the Sandy Burk wrote an outstanding book project was worthwhile and deserved about the Potomac shad restoration project support,” said ICPRB Executive Director entitled “Let the River Run Silver Again!” Joseph Hoffman. “As a small, nonregulatory This book, which describes how a few agency, ICPRB’s projects largely rely on students made a big difference fostering partnerships with other agencies and support for a fish passageway and raising groups; public knowledge about and shad in their classrooms for stocking the support of projects like shad restoration Potomac, has been an inspiration to remain strong because of that support.” thousands of students, not only in the Potomac watershed, but across the country. The book received the Izaak Walton League’s 2005 Conservation Book of the Friend of Potomac, ICPRB, Year and the Green Earth Book Award for Gilbert Gude Passes 2006. Her award recognizes her contributions not only with the book, but Away also the many hours she has spent working closely with many of the schools and The Potomac River, ICPRB, and anyone with a strong interest in the preservation of the watershed lost a valuable friend and ally when former Maryland congressman and champion of the river Gilbert Gude died on June 7. He was 84. Gude’s interest in the river was evident from his work as a state delegate in the 1950s and as a state senator until 1966. He then served five terms as a U.S. Congressman representing Montgomery County, retiring in 1977. In 1969, he was the chief sponsor of a bill that protected the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from a proposed highway that would hug the river, and later resulted in the 1971 legislation that created the C&O Canal National Watching the River Flow Historic Park. In addition to the recreational and cultural benefits enjoyed by millions Flow of the Potomac River measured today, the park’s creation created a green near Washington, D.C., began well below buffer alongside the river for more than 180 average in April, but a strong storm miles, protecting it from development and boosted river levels, which then fell pollution. steadily for the rest of the month and Gude, in a disarming, affable voice, through May, according to provisional spoke and acted strongly for the river’s data provided by the U.S. Geological protection. In 1975, he led a month-long trip Survey. from the river’s source at Fairfax Stone to its April river flow averaged about 15.45 mouth at Point Lookout, of which several billion gallons per day (bgd), or about 16 ICPRB staff and commissioners were a part. percent more than the long-term average. The group bicycled, hiked, canoed, and River flow ranged from a low of about boated its way down, meeting with local 5.99 bgd on April 11 to a high of about officials and groups, and publicizing the 72.39 bgd on April 17. Water withdrawn beauty and heritage of the river environs. for metropolitan area water supply That same year found Gude pushing a bill averaged about 368 million gallons per that would have created a 200-foot wide day (mgd). buffer strip along the Potomac from May was a very dry month in the Washington, D.C., to Cumberland, Md., basin. The May flow was about 4.86 bgd, creating a green buffer on the river’s other or only 49.8 percent of average. Daily bank, complimentary to the C&O Canal. A extremes ranged from a high of about similar bill was sponsored in the Senate. 8.27 bgd on May 1, sliding to a low of The visionary idea, unfortuantely never about 3.12 bgd at month’s end. Water became law. withdrawn for water supply averaged After leaving Congress, Gude became about 421 mgd. head of the Congressional Research

424071.pmd 7 7/6/2007, 9:56 AM Service at the , and ICPRB Honored as continued to explore and research the river. During the 1980s, Gude wrote two books Watershed Steward chronicling the history and culture of the upper Potomac, “Where the Potomac The Frederick County, Md., Division of Begins: A History of the North Branch Public Works recently nominated ICPRB as Valley,” in 1984, and “Small Town Destiny: A a “Watershed Steward,” and the agency Story of Small Towns along the Potomac was awarded a sign from the Monocacy Valley,” in 1989. He also wrote an article, and Catoctin Watershed Alliance for “Presidents and the Potomac,” for the improving watershed health through Journal of the White House Historical outstanding community partnerships during Association. the past three years. He also was active in helping to form the The award represents ICPRB’s Potomac River Basin Consortium, a group leadership on projects including the Clover of professors and researchers from basin Hill Community Park riparian buffer universities that meet to advance planting, assisting the New Forest Society knowledge and scholarship about many in building a grow-out station for trees used aspects of the watershed. Gude also taught in plantings, the Middletown, Md., rain a course about the Potomac at Georgetown barrel project, a rain garden constructed at University, and would contact ICPRB each Brook Hill Methodist Church, and the year before class started to get an update ongoing 2007 rain barrel project. More and trade information about aspects of the importantly, the partners who worked with watershed. What was nice about Gude’s ICPRB also received signs as a tribute to annual fishing expedition at the their efforts. Commission was that he usually had as The Monocacy watershed includes most much information to give as he got. of Frederick County, and is the second- Gilbert Gude’s efforts to preserve and largest Potomac tributary. These projects protect the river that he felt flow through him benefit the Monocacy watershed and the gained success through his focus on the downstream Potomac. The Chesapeake big picture, his respectful, low-key Bay Trust helped to fund the projects. approach to dealing with people, and his unbridled love of the Nation’s River. Gilbert, the river and many people who work for it will miss you. PAID U.S. Postage U.S. Rockville, MD Permit No. 800 No. Permit Non-Profit Org.

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Editors: Curtis M. Dalpra Jennifer K. Dotson Published six times a year by the Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin, 51 Monroe St., Suite PE-08, Rockville, MD 20850. (301) 984-1908. (ISSN 1072-8627) E-Mail: [email protected] Internet: http://www.potomacriver.org Joseph K. Hoffman, Executive Director This publication does not necessarily reflect official Commission policies. Funds for the Reporter are provided by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the signatory bodies to ICPRB: District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. Interstate Commission on the Potomac River Basin River Interstate Commission on the Potomac 51 Monroe St., Suite PE-08 Rockville, MD 20850 Address Service Requested May/June 2007

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