South River in Waynesboro, Virginia The South River is one of
the two main tributaries of the South Fork of the Shenandoah
River. It begins south of Staunton, Virginia, and flows
northward to Port Republic, where it merges with the North River
to form the South Fork. The river is 52.6 miles (84.7 km) long.
Communities along the route The South River flows through
Stuarts Draft, Waynesboro, and Grottoes. In Waynesboro, the
DuPont (now Invista) plant, and others, heavily polluted the
river with mercury. It is unsafe to eat fish caught from the
river, and fishing most of the way down the South Fork of the
Shenandoah is catch and release only. - ^ U.S. Geological
Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline
data. The National Map, accessed August 15, 2011 - ^ "Mercury
Still Stains South River", The Daily News Record, April 5, 2008
Coordinates: 38°0′57.9″N 79°1′54.3″W / 38.016083°N 79.031750°W