Station to Be Installed on Potomac River to Monitor Water Quality

Washington Post ( AP ) -- July 19, 2007 -- Virginia plans to install a monitoring station in the Potomac River that will help boaters and fishermen while assisting marine biologists studying the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. The monitoring station is planned at the mouth of Monroe Bay in a section of the Potomac plagued by fish kills. It will collect water-quality information every 15 minutes and post it on a Virginia Institute of Marine Science Web site (www.vims.edu) The station, which should be in place next month, is the first of two real-time monitoring sites the institute will offer on its year-old Virginia Estuarine and Coastal Observing System. A second real-time station will keep tabs on the James River near Hopewell.

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