River Potomac

Note Accdg to Dutton (Ref 58, pp 141-43), the Repauno Plant manufd Dynamite until 1954, when it was converted to chemicals. There were in 1960 other du Pont Dynamite plants, the largest located on the Potomac River near Mar-tinsburg, W. Virginia. It was operated by remote control robots... 

You would never have spent so much money on a car, but you ve been able to obtain it for practically nothing. A few months ago while trolling in the Potomac River for murder victims, you hooked something big underwater. A day later you dived, saw the car, and had a friend tow it to shore. Mr. Duchovny, your boss at the FBI, said that because the vehicle identification numbers had been filed off, there was no way to trace the car. There was no sign of foul play—no blood stains or evidence of any kind except for a wet roll of hundred dollar bills you later found hidden beneath the spare tire. Because the police thought the car worthless after being under the river for a few months, they allowed you to keep it. Little did they anticipate your ingenuity for repair. 

Third Street winds downhill—past Leo s Pizza and Pasta, past life-size holograms of Clinton, Reagan, and Carter—following the kinks and bends of the Potomac River. The buildings are set well back from the streets and it isn t until you get nearer to the water that you see a considerable number of people. Hundreds. The nearby avenues are themselves very busy with endless streams of noisy taxis. A few joggers pass—no matter how swiftly they run, they are constrained to the asphalt and concrete and probably always would be. Would they want to experience, as you do, a jog into the fourth dimension ... 

Hall LW Jr, Hall WS, Bushong SJ, Herman RL. 1987. In situ striped bass (Morone saxatilis) contaminant and water quality studies in the Potomac River. Aquat Toxicol 10(2-3) 73-99. 

From a small beginning research was expanded to form three other laboratories with a combined personnel of chemists, engineers, physicists and assistants. The physical assets comprise more than 100 buildings distributed over several hundred acres. The duPont Co maintains four Development Laboratories. Two of these are concerned directly with explosives research. They are the Pomp-ton Lakes Development Laboratory near Pompton Lakes, NJ and the Potomac River Development Laboratory, near the duPont s new and modern Dynamite Plant at Martins-burg, West Virginia (Ref 6, pp7—10)... 

Africa. In January 1954 the manuf of expls was discontinued at Repauno which thruout the years had become a large chemical plant. To supply the requirements formerly handled by Repauno, the new, ultra-modem Potomac River Works was constructed near Martinsburg, W. Virginia (Ref 6, pl7)... 

Great Barrier Reef and other coral reefs are Paper mill on the Potomac River near Weslemport, Maryland, neutralizes acid mine... 

Part of the North Branch of the Potomac River runs crystal clear through the scenic Appalachian Mountains, but it is lifeless—a victim of acid drainage from abandoned coal mines. As the river passes a paper mill and a wastewater treatment plant near Westemport, Maryland, the pH rises from an acidic, lethal value of 4.5 to a neutral value of 7.2, at which fish and plants thrive. This happy "accident comes about because calcium carbonate exiting the paper mill equilibrates with massive quantities of carbon dioxide from bacterial respiration at the sewage treatment plant. The resulting soluble bicarbonate neutralizes the acidic river and restores life downstream of the plant.1... 

Chesapeake Bay Patuxent River Potomac River York River... 

Callender, E., and Hammond, D.E. (1982) Nutrient exchange across the sediment-water interface in the Potomac River estuary. Estuar. Coastal Shelf Sci. 15, 395—413. 

Simon, N.S., and Kennedy, M.M. (1987) The distribution of nitrogen species and adsorption of ammonium in sediments from the tidal Potomac River and Estuary. Estuar. Coastal Shelf Sci. 25, 11-26. 

Wang, D.P., and Elliott, A.J. (1978) Non-tidal variability in the Chesapeake Bay and Potomac River evidence for non-local forcing. J. Phys. Oceanogr. 8, 225-232. 

Diamond, J. M., W. Bower, and D. Gruber. 1993. Use of man-made impoundment in mitigating acid mine drainage in the North Branch Potomac River. Environ. Management 17 225-238. 

As at St. Andrews, Purves drew most of his close friends in Washington from outside the laboratory—economists, lawyers, newspaper correspondents. With them, he hiked extensively in the hills of Virginia and Maryland, and took long canoe trips on the Potomac River. Always interested in history and politics, he became very well acquainted with many aspects of American affairs, and developed an especially deep interest in the history of the Civil War, much of which had centered about that part of the United States. 

Figure 18.10 Scatter plot of average annual TN mass versus average annualTN loads for a portion of Chesapeake Bay and a selection of Chesapeake Bay tributary rivers. All concentration data were from sampling stations located in the mesohaline regions of the Bay and tributary rivers. Inset shows annual TN concentrations versusTN loads to the Potomac River estuary for an 8 year period. All data were from the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Monitoring Program (2004).

Boicourt, W. C. (1983). The Detection and Analysis of the Lateral Circulation in the Potomac River Estuary. Maryland Power Plant Siting Research Program Publication No. 66, Annapohs, MD, 209pp. 

Cohen, R., Dresler, P., Phillips, E., and Cory, R. (1984). The effect of the Asiatic clam, Corbicula fluminea, on phytoplankton of the Potomac River, Maryland. Limnol. Oceanogr. 29, 170—180. 

Lovley D. R. and Phillips E. J. P. (1986) Availability of ferric iron for microbial reduction in bottom sediments of the freshwater tidal Potomac river. Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 52, 751-757. 

White, W. B., and White, E., 1974, Base-level control of underground drainage in the Potomac River Basin, in Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Karst Geology and Hydrology H. W. Rauch and E.Werner, eds., West Virginia Geological Survey, Charleston, pp. 41-53. 

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