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logo 9/23/2024 12:29:53 AM     
Fairfax County relocates fish, eels affected by government center pond dredging 
By Angela Woolsey US Source: ffxnow 12/13/2023
Angela Woolsey
Credit: DPWES		 Work is underway to restore the waterways around the Fairfax County Government Center.

To support the Difficult Run stream restoration project, which began in October, the Fairfax County Department of Public Works and Environmental Services (DPWES) worked with a consultant to relocate over 200 fish and eels to the pond outside the Herrity Building (12055 Government Center Parkway).
 

In an approach that DPWES says is “unprecedented” for the county, the aquatic creatures were corralled using an electro-fishing boat provided by the consultant, Prince William County-based Solitude Lake Management.

  
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