- The Enterprise - The Recorder The news for our local waterways
hasn’t been good of late. Last month, American Rivers, an
advocacy group, listed the Potomac River as the country’s most
endangered river. The environmental advocacy group Potomac
Riverkeeper noted that the Potomac received a “D” grade from a
University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science report.
The study found that the river’s water clarity, which had been
showing some improvement in recent years, declined between 2009
and 2010. A news release in May from the Smarter Growth Alliance
for Charles County notes that the Mattawoman Creek is showing a
loss of stream spawning sites and that fish habitat has
declined. The report is called “The Case for Protection of the
Watershed Resources of Mattawoman Creek: Recommendations and
Management Initiatives to Protect the Mattawoman Ecosystems.” A
few years back, American Rivers named the Mattawoman the fourth
most endangered river in the nation in its annual listing of
threatened rivers. It was o