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"Brian Raines (TheChesapeakeBay.com)" wrote:

> Tulloch Ditching is Destroying Vital Wetlands in Virginia
>
> Last summer a Federal Court of Appeals decision struck down something known as
> the "Tulloch Rule" (pronounced "Tul-ic") thus allowing the drainage of vast
> tracts of Virginia wetlands. In Southeastern Virginia alone, the Chesapeake
> Bay Foundation (CBF) estimates that over 3,000 wetland acres have been drained
> or are about to be drained and another 5,000 acres are under immediate threat.
> Conservative statewide estimates suggest wetland losses may exceed 500,000
> acres.
>

Are developers then allowed to reclassify these lands as non-wetlands.
That's some nice loophole for people who don't give a shit about the bay.

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