Waynesboro’s DuPont plant was an industrial juggernaut providing thousands of jobs near the city’s South River for decades.

But mercury spillover from the plant between 1929 and 1950 left the waterway and its banks contaminated for years until a $50 million environmental settlement was brokered by Gov. Terry McAuliffe and the federal government in 2017. Local News

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The environmental damage stretched for more than 100 miles of river and floodplain, affecting both the South River and the Shenandoah River's South Fork.

Of the settlement, $3 million was for the creation of the South River Preserve, a Waynesboro project that converted a 7-acre former parking lot along the waterway into meadows of native grasses an

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