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The Shenandoah River was contaminated with mercury which was released by a DuPont rayon manufacturing facility located in Waynesboro, Virginia from 1929 to 1950. [6] This mercury is still present in the fish population of the river today; data collected over the last several decades shows that mercury levels remain stable. [ 7 ]
Shenandoah River Raymond R. "Andy" Guest Jr. State Park, known generally as Shenandoah River State Park, is a state park near the town of Bentonville, Virginia, United States. The park was established in 1994, and covers 1,619 acres (6.55 km 2 ) along the South Fork Shenandoah River . [ 1 ]
Staunton River State Park: Scottsburg: 2,336 acres (9.45 km 2) 1939 Open Staunton River Battlefield State Park: Randolph: 300 acres (1.2 km 2) 1955 Open Sweet Run State Park: Hillsboro: 884 acres (3.58 km 2) 2016 Open Facilities under development Tabb Monument: Amelia County: 1 acre (0.0040 km 2) 1936 Open Twin Lakes State Park: Green Bay
Seven Bends State Park is a state park in the U.S. state of Virginia, located approximately 2 miles (3.2 km) from the town of Woodstock, near the historic "Seven Bends" region of the North Fork Shenandoah River. The park, Virginia's 41st, provides recreational and land-based outdoor recreational and educational opportunities for visitors while ...
The Shenendoah river locks (section 109), were across from Harper's Ferry, just below Lock 33 at the Shenandoah River. [7] This lock let boats cross to Harpers Ferry with the mules walking on the railroad bridge, up the Shenandoah river, to the old Potomac Canal Bypass on the Shenandoah river by Virginius island.
Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, in the lower Shenandoah Valley.The town's population was 269 at the 2020 United States census.Situated at the confluence of the Potomac and Shenandoah rivers, where Maryland, Virginia, and West Virginia meet, it is the easternmost town in West Virginia as well as its lowest point above sea level.
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A skilled raft guide is able to recognize river features and understand their effects on a raft, and what is required to navigate among or around these features with passengers. On rapids where the potential risk of injury is high, it is the guides' responsibility to keep the raft from overturning and the passengers from falling overboard.