Richmond officials say the state’s plan could require the city to spend millions — perhaps hundreds of millions — of dollars to clean a stream that people probably don’t get in and shouldn’t get in.
The city wants to conduct a study that is expected to show, among other things, whether people actually go into Gillies Creek.
via timesdispatch.com Rex Springston.
Of local interest, the report disclosed additional problems with the James River in Richmond.
The stretch from the Boulevard Bridge to just upriver from the Mayo Bridge — an area popular with paddlers, waders and swimmers — was listed as polluted with mercury and the long-banned pesticides DDT and chlordane.
That stretch already was known to be polluted by fecal bacteria, primarily from the waste of wildlife and upriver cattle, among other sources.
