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As a stream ecologist and an environmental lawyer, respectively, we are greatly concerned about this lack of parity and its potential consequences for the bay.
Fairfax County uses an exceptionally robust protocol to identify which streams to protect, relying on 26 hydrological, physical and biological characteristics that decades of scientific inquiry have shown mark the critical features of a perennialstream.
While the fate of the Wedderburn stream alone will not exacerbate the record dead zones predicted for the Chesapeake this year, similar streams across Fairfax are at risk, and the cumulative threat is profound.
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