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Democrats have decided to allow a quarter-century ban on drilling for oil off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts to expire next week. The Interior Department estimates there are 18 billion barrels of recoverable oil beneath coastal waters now off-limits.
It's an ambitious goal – make the Elizabeth River swimmable and fishable by 2020 -- but that's what the Elizabeth River Project believes can happen.
Cooke's Gardens and Landscaping was installing a cistern to gather rainwater for reuse rather than drawing groundwater for everything.
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In a year’s time, you could nurse a thousand baby oysters into creatures capable of filtering thousands of gallons of water a day.
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