Wasteland or Wetland?

Wasteland or Wetland? (HM1OLG)

Location: Alexandria, VA 22307 Fairfax County
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Country: United States of America
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N 38° 46.665', W 77° 3.057'

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— George Washington Memorial Parkway —

Here, 400 years ago, the Piscataway tribe fed themselves on fish and waterfowl. In the early 1800s, Virginia farmers built retaining walls, called dykes, to drain this marsh and make farmland. The dykes proved too hard to keep intact. Without dyles, in a matter of decades Potomac tides reclaimed this marsh.

By the 1950s, metropolitan Washington D.C. was booming. Developers dug gravel out of Dyke Marsh and dumped debris in its place. Gravel mining stopped in the early 1970s, but the erosion that digging started still harms Dyke Marsh today.

In 1974, Congress directed the National Park Service to protect and restore Dyke Marsh. Even now, there is much left to do. What we do today will determine if these wetlands ever truly recover.
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HM NumberHM1OLG
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Placed ByNational Park Service, U.S. Department of the Interior
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Date Added Tuesday, October 13th, 2015 at 9:02pm PDT -07:00
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UTM (WGS84 Datum)18S E 321842 N 4294111
Decimal Degrees38.77775000, -77.05095000
Degrees and Decimal MinutesN 38° 46.665', W 77° 3.057'
Degrees, Minutes and Seconds38° 46' 39.9" N, 77° 3' 3.42" W
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Area Code(s)703
Closest Postal AddressAt or near Mt Vernon Trail, Alexandria VA 22307, US
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