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Posted By:
Hal Brown
Date Posted:
Sep 29, 2012
Description:
On Wednesday I flew around Richmond, VA, crossing the James River about 8 miles above the fall line and again about 20 miles below it.
When you see bridge construction, you don't ordinarily think of water pollution--unless you see it from above.
Date Taken:
Sep 29, 2012
Place Taken:
Richmond, VA
Owner:
Don Maxwell
File Name:
BridgeMud1.jpg - Photo HTML
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23, Max Pix
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Frank A. Carr - Sep 29,2012
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Perhaps the VA Highway Department should receive a cc of your photo?
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Don Maxwell - Sep 29,2012
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I sent it to a reporter who has written extensively about the James. This particular instance isn't such a big deal, but we're all concerned about the overall water quality in the river downstream of the city, and this photo makes the point somewhat dramatically. Here's another angle on it:<br /><br />In both shots the river bottom is visible through about 8-10 feet of water--except through the runoff.<br /><br />I forgot to mention above that this is a RE-construction project. First they built a second bridge on the far side (west) of the original two-lane bridge. Once that was complete they began tearing down the old bridge and will build a second new two-laner in its place.<br /><br />The old bridge was only 62 years old, but carried a lot more heavy traffic than its designers ever imagined. <a href="http://www.huguenotbridge.org/">http://www.huguenotbridge.org/</a>
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Kenneth Leonard - Sep 30,2012
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That looks like a 1 millionth scale of the silt the Savannah river was moving when I flew over it. Except it's not considered pollution then because it never stops moving that silt. Think of it as building estuaries.
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