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	Potomac River Watershed Cleanup - Watershed Map & Facts
		1971- DC Council prohibits water contact sports in the Potomac, Rock Creek and Anacostia; urban sediment is a major concern.
		Potomac River Watershed Cleanup - Watershed Map & Facts
		Major Tributaries: South Branch, Savage, Monocacy, Shenandoah, Cacapon River, Antietam, and Conococheague Creek
	www.fergusonfoundation.org /cleanupfacts.html

	Washington, D.C. - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Anacostia River and Rock Creek are tributaries of the Potomac River.
		However, the area south of the Potomac River (39 mi² or about 100 km²) was returned, or "retroceded", to Virginia in 1847 and now is incorporated into Arlington County and the City of Alexandria.
		Washington is surrounded by the states of Virginia (on its southwest side) and Maryland (on its southeast, northeast, and northwest sides); it interrupts those states' common border, which is the Potomac River's southern shore both upstream and downstream from the District.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Washington,_D.C. (5916 words)

	Potomac River Winter Waterfowling
		The Potomac River, Monocacy River, and Conococheague Creek are the only three rivers where sneak boat hunting is permitted in Maryland.
		The Potomac River, from its beginning in the farther reaches of western Maryland to its mouth at Chesapeake Bay some 300 miles later, is full of waterfowling opportunities.
		While the non-tidal Potomac River may not be the first thought in Maryland waterfowlers' minds when planning a hunting trip, it can be a very productive destination whether pursuing early-season resident geese or late-season black ducks and redheads.
	www.midatlanticgameandfish.com /hunting/ducks-geese-hunting/at_aa120502a (2506 words)

	potomac.doc
		Major tributaries in the Potomac basin include: the Shenandoah River (181 miles), the South Branch (130 miles), the North Branch (97 miles), the Cacapon (113 miles), Conococheague Creek (80 miles), the Monocacy River (50 miles), and the Anacostia River (9 miles).
		How fitting, then, that on the eve of that anniversary, this river should be recognized officially as an “American Heritage River.” In modern times the Potomac River has been viewed by some as a dividing line, a barrier between states, to be neglected or exploited and abused almost to the point of destruction.
		Near the river’s mouth, the Commonwealth of Virginia and the Army Corps of Engineers are developing plans to deepen and stabilize the Coan River, making it safer and more accessible to watermen and relieving the stagnation that is destroying prime oyster and crab habitat.
	www.epa.gov /rivers/plan/potomac.doc (15426 words)

	Washington DC City Pages: History
		Between Oxon Creek and the Eastern Branch (or Anacostia River) was Blew Playne, a tract of 1,000 acres granted in 1692 to George Thompson.
		In the homeland, Lord Baltimore received a royal grant of that part of Virginia north and east of the Potomac River between 38 degrees and 40 degrees north latitude.
		The Native Americans were hostile to Calvert; and so he returned with Fleet down the Potomac to its mouth and settled a short distance inland north of the river, where "the Cittie of St. Mary", first capital of Maryland, developed.
	www.dcpages.com /History/dchistory.html (1412 words)

	Harpers Ferry - in Maryland rafting, tubing, canoeing, kayaking in whitewater West Virginia - River and Trail Outfitters
		Our river trips and lessons take place on the Potomac and Shenandoah River as well as Antietam Creek.
		We do customize trips on other creeks and rivers for groups of 20 or more.
		River and Trail Outfitters is one of the oldest year-round outdoor adventure companies in the Mid-Atlantic region.
	www.rivertrail.com (576 words)

	Web One The Traveler - snapshots from the Maryland Virginia area
		The birthplace and family home of George Washington, on Pope's Creek in Virginia, just a few hundred yards from the Potomac River; surrounded by modern farms, this National Park is a working replica of an 18th century farm, including crops and farm animals of the period.
		Sharpsburg, Maryland - in northwest Maryland, along the headwaters of the Potomac River and in the shadow of the South Mountain ridge, a few miles from the Antietam National Civil War Battlefield.
		From Front Royal at the north entrance to Waynesboro at the south entrance, a few miles wide and a hundred miles long, the central ridge of the Shenandoah National Park hosts Skyline Drive, which looks out southeast over the hilly Virginia plain and northwest over the Shenandoah river valley which parallels the West Virginia border.
	home.att.net /~web1a (576 words)

	Headwaters
		One of the traditional rendezvous points for the bartering apparently was at the flat river bottom area where Seneca Creek joins with the North Fork of the South Branch of the Potomac River under the shadow of the exposed upended slab of tough Tuscarora Sandstone which constitutes Seneca Rocks.
		Although the Senecas were not a local tribe -- occupying homelands in what is now western New York -- they made trading forays out of their granitic northern tribal territories south into these settled down, earthy, humid Alleghenies.
	www.wvhighlands.org /VoiceMay99/Slocomb.May99Voice.htm (576 words)

	Pearl Dace
		Semotilus margarita (Cope), in the Potomac River drainage.
		Two previously reported localities for pearl dace in the lower Yellowstone River (Gould and Brown 1968; Brown 1971; Holton and Johnson 2003) were probably attributable to misidentified creek chubs.
		In the Red River of the North basin, pearl dace have undergone moderate reductions in range (Koel and Peterka 1998).
	www.fisheries.org /AFSmontana/SSCpages/Pearl%20Dace/Pearl%20Dace.htm (576 words)

	Rivers That Flow North
		And even in an era where traveling by river is uncommon we speak of "downriver" and "upriver", and we know that "upriver" (or "up the creek") means against the current, while downriver, with the current, is much easier going.
		Other north-flowing rivers in that area are the Unare and Cuyuni, the Magdalena in Colombia, the Berbice and Essequibo rivers in Guyana, the Corantyne or Corantin on the border between Guyana and Suriname, the Mana in French Guyana.
		For a good example of a large, famous river that loops around in all sorts of directions, look closely at a map of the Ohio River, which flows mainly west-southwest for 981 miles from Pittsburgh until it meets the Mississippi at Cairo, Illinois.
	www.geocities.com /loisnotlane/rivers.html (576 words)

	GEORGE WASHINGTON MEMORIAL
		The Potomac Company laws were immediately followed by an agreement between Virginia and Maryland assuring freedom of navigation on the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay on a basis of complete equality.
		On his return journey he looked over the terrain of the region where the Potomac River's headwaters are nearest those of the Monongahela.
		Farther south, the frontier difficulties followed familiar patterns: Kentuckians were clashing with the Spaniards in the Mississippi River Valley, and Georgian squatters were pushing ever deeper into territory that by treaty belonged to the Creek.
	www.sangha.net /messengers/washington.htm (576 words)

	kennedyword.doc
		To the west, the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway (hereafter called the Rock Creek Parkway) impedes direct access from the Center to the Potomac River, the river trail, and the Georgetown neighborhood.
		Two areas are of particular concern: the connection between the Rock Creek Parkway and the Potomac Freeway-I-66, and the intersection of Ohio Drive with the Potomac Freeway/I-66 and the Rock Creek Parkway.
		New connections between the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and the Potomac Freeway in the vicinity of K Street.
	www.efl.fhwa.dot.gov /planning/Kennedy/kennedyword.doc (4163 words)

	The C&O Canal: Part III
		Beginning at the Goergetown end of the canal (mile 0), the mouth of Rock Creek (and the end of the C&O) is flanked by the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway on one side, with the Watergate Hotel across that street, and by Thompson's Boat House on the north side.
		Now, the peaceful creek by the aqueduct, and the Potomac a short stroll away are used by people from a campsite a few hundred feet further up the canal.
		There are numerous vistas of the river here, with the rapids in the Potomac as it ripples over and between rocks in the river.
	members.aol.com /mjtrekker/cando3.html (5871 words)

	Johns Hopkins University Press Books America's National Park Roads and Parkways
		Parkways: Baltimore-Washington Parkway; Blue Ridge Parkway; Colonial Parkway; George Washington Memorial Parkway; Natchez Trace Parkway; Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway
		Also included are non—Park Service projects that utilized similar design strategies, including the Bronx River Parkway and the Columbia River Highway.
		America's National Park Roads and Parkways brings together 331 measured and interpretive drawings commissioned by HAER to illustrate the physical characteristics, design strategies, construction practices, and visitor experiences of roads in national parks from Acadia to Zion and parkways from the Blue Ridge to the Natchez Trace.
	www.press.jhu.edu /books/title_pages/3272.html (519 words)

	THE GEORGETOWN WATERFRONT PARK & THE C & O CANAL NHP
		The tidelock, at the confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac River, is the historic terminus of the C&O Canal.
		The town flourished as a tobacco port until silting of the Potomac River early in the 19th Century caused a decline in port activity.
		The area is important in providing pedestrian linkage from the waterfront and the west side of Rock Creek to K Street and eventual access to the C&O Canal to the north.
	users.erols.com /anc2e/waterfront/1987plan.html (3468 words)

	EPA: Federal Register: Environmental Impact Statements; Notice of Availability
		EIS No. 030124, Draft EIS, NPS, DC, Rock Creek Park and the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Project, General Management Plan, Implementation, Washington, DC, Comment Period Ends: May 12, 2003, Contact: Adrienna Coleman (202) 282-1063.
		EIS No. 030127, Draft EIS, BLM, WY, West Hay Creek Coal Lease Application, To Lease Federal Coal to the Buckskin Mine in Wyoming Powder River Basin, Campbell County, WY, Comment Period Ends: May 27, 2003, Contact: Patricia Karbs (307) 261-7600.
		EIS No. 030129, Draft EIS, FHW, ND, Liberty Memorial Bridge Replacement Project, Rehabilitate or Reconstruct Due to Poor and Deteriorating Structural, U.S. Coast Guard Permit and U.S. Army COE Section 10 and 404 Permits, Missouri River, Bismarck and Mandan, ND, Comment Period Ends: May 12, 2003, Contact: Mark Schrader Ext.111 (701) 250-4343.
	www.epa.gov /fedrgstr/EPA-IMPACT/2003/March/Day-28/i7502.htm (703 words)

	Rock Creek Park - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A later addition of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway extended the park along a narrow corridor from the zoo to the mouth of Rock Creek at the Potomac River.
		Rock Creek is a popular venue for jogging and cycling, as well as the path of a major traffic throughfare, the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, especially along the portion south of the zoo.
		Rock Creek Park is home to at least one urban legend, The Bunnyman, or the rabbitman.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Rock_Creek_Park (855 words)

	Rock Creek Park: An Administrative History (Section 3)
		At the critical confluence of Rock Creek and the Potomac River, the west bank of the creek was in commercial occupancy.
		The eastern terminus of the C and O Canal entered Rock Creek on alignment with L Street and used the lower creek, raised by a dam at its mouth and diverted by a mole of stone and earth fill, as a barge basin and trans-shipment area.
		Rock Creek Park was and is limited to the creek valley north of the National Zoological Park.
	www.nps.gov /rocr/cultural/history/adhi3.htm (3814 words)

	Statement of Mr. Tangherlini, June 4, 2002
		The Center’s initial design concept provided pedestrian access to the Potomac River and vehicular access from the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway, yet, due to funding constraints, the Kennedy Center was built in its isolated environment.
		This plaza would be created by constructing a deck over the Potomac Freeway.
		The centerpiece of the proposed transportation access improvements would be the creation of a plaza, which would carry E Street NW directly into the Kennedy Center.
	www.senate.gov /comm/environment_and_public_works/general/107th/Tangherlini_060402.htm (678 words)

	pedantic nuthatch
		I can drive to a lot of places scenically on the George Washington Parkway, Canal Road and the Clara Barton Parkway, the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway and Beach Drive, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
		The Potomac River, surging through Great Falls, down Mather Gorge, rumbling under Chain Bridge, to the relaxed estuarial waterfront at Alexandria.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /nouveau/blog/2004/03/19.html (482 words)

	The Committee of 100 - History
		The pattern was set across the Potomac River, where Arlington County supported the enormous high-rise concentrations of office buildings in Rosslyn (across Key Bridge from Georgetown) and Crystal City (immediately west of National Airport).
		Next, the road planners proposed a U.S. 240 extension down the so-called Wisconsin Avenue corridor to Tenley Circle, then splitting with one leg through Melvin C. Hazen Park and Rock Creek Park and a second leg running down Glover-Archbold Park to the Potomac.
		It began with a proposal of District and Maryland highway planners to extend U.S. 240 down Rock Creek Park to downtown Washington.
	www.committeeof100.net /history.html (4768 words)

	Text Only Version of Michigan's Third District House Site
		Located near the Jefferson Memorial and Potomac River.
		Located at the west end of the National Mall in West Potomac Park at the foot of 23rd Street NW, this memorial honors our nation's 16th president.
		Located at New Hampshire Avenue at Rock Creek Parkway NW.
	www.house.gov /ehlers/text_only.html (2907 words)

	West Virginia DNR - Favorite Fishing Waters
		Bluestone, East Lynn, Burnsville, Stonecoal, Tygart, and Stonewall Jackson lakes; South Branch of the Potomac, Kanawha, New, and Ohio rivers.
		Summersville and Tygart Lakes; New, Shenandoah, Greenbrier, Cacapon, South Branch of the Potomac, mainstream Potomac, Ohio River upstream of New Martinsville, Elk, and Little Kanawha rivers.
		Middle Island Creek, Little Kanawha River, Buckhannon River, Elk River, Hughes River, South Fork Hughes River, Stonecoal Lake, Stonewall Jackson Lake, West Fork River, Burnsville Lake, Tygart River, Sandy Creek, Mud River, McElroy Creek, North Fork Hughes River, Dunkard Creek, Mill Creek, Pocatalico River, West Fork of the Little Kanawha River, and Leading Creek.
	www.wvdnr.gov /Fishing/FavFishWaters.shtm (2907 words)

	potoh_text.html
		When comparing the regions mapped between 2002 and 2001, SAV decreased on the southern shore of the Potomac River, from Brent Marsh to Brent Point (Map 055); in Aquia, Potomac, and Choptank creeks (Maps 055, 064, 066); and on the western shore of Port Tobacco River (Maps 161, 057).
		On the northern shore of the Potomac River, SAV decreased off Goose Bay (Map 047); in Mallows Bay (Map 055); in Wades Bay (Map 055); on both shores of Nanjemoy Creek (Maps 056, 057); in Wards Run and Burgess Creek (Maps 056, 057); and on both shores of Port Tobacco River (Map 057).
		On the northern shore of the Potomac River, SAV decreased off Maryland Point and north of Maryland Point (Maps 065, 056) and on the eastern shore of Port Tobacco River (Maps 057).
	www.vims.edu /bio/sav/sav02/segments/potoh_text.html (349 words)

	Maryland Trips
		See below For Potomac River and Seneca Creek trips - Montgomery County
		After a brief paddling refresher on the CandO Canal, We put in at Violets Lock; paddle across the Potomac, where the river is about 3/4 of a mile wide, and into the "Old Potomak Canal" surveyed by George Washington in the 1750's, to get river punts and barges around Seneca Breaks Rapids.
		The old canal is now an intimate creek and island maze within the river that enjoys a secluded wilderness aura shared with herons, deer, owls, hawks and occasional paddlers.
	www.canoeinstructor.net /maryland_trips.htm (535 words)

	USGS CIRC 1166 subpage: Nutrients and pesticides in streams and ground water -- A regional perspective
		The Monocacy River and Conococheague and Muddy Creeks, which drain primarily agricultural watersheds, and Accotink Creek, which drains a small urban watershed, yield the greatest amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus per square mile to the Potomac River.
		Long-term impacts of the unprecedented flooding within the Potomac River Basin during 1996 have yet to be determined; however, the USGS is currently studying aquatic vegetation downstream in the Potomac estuary, and State and local governments are planning to sample drinking-water sources for pesticides more frequently during peak application periods.
		Although the Shenandoah River contributes the greatest loads of total nitrogen and phosphorus among streams at which data were collected over time, Conococheague Creek, Muddy Creek, and the Monocacy River, which drain primarily agricultural watersheds, yield the largest loads of total nitrogen per square mile.
	pubs.usgs.gov /circ/1998/circ1166/nawqa91.5.html (3641 words)

	elnl200106.htm
		Four Mile Creek enters the Potomac River just south of Ronald Reagan Airport [Washington National Airport].
		This land is along the Potomac River extending easterly from the mouth of Spout Run.
		Lying on the east side of Lawnes Creek, extending to the main river along land reputed THOMAS GAYNES, along the great river to a creek dividing same from land of Alice Bennett.
	bz.llano.net /gowen/electronic_newsletter/elnl200106.htm (3641 words)

	Dunker Church : Who are the Dunkers?
		This was a large valley, at some points nearly thirty-five miles wide and over fifty miles long, extending from the Susquehanna River to the east and then curving south to the Potomac River in the west, and bordered its full length by the Blue Mountains to the north.
		For this reason, numerous Brethren congregations are still known by the body of water where these baptisms or dunkings took place: Beaver Creek, Yellow Creek, Lost Creek, Marsh Creek, Pike Run, Spring Run, Trout Run, Blue River, Eel River, West Eel River, Little River, Valley River, Falling Springs, Roaring Springs, or Three Springs.
		Intellectual disagreement remains over the full effect of Anabaptism on the Schwarzenau Brethren, however, a clear imprint of these early convictions is most visible as the Original Eight souls initiated their faith community through the rebaptism of each other as believing adults in the Eder River near Schwarzenau.
	www.cob-net.org /antietam/dunkers.htm (3641 words)

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