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The Virginia Department of Health (VDH) has modified several existing fish consumption advisories and added three new advisories due to mercury and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) contamination. Recent test results show mercury and PCBs levels exceed the amount considered safe for long term human consumption. Mercury Advisories have been added or modified for the following water bodies:

--Rappahannock River Basin- Motts Run Reservoir and Chandlers Mill Pond (both new)
--Chowan and Dismal Swamp River Basin- Nottoway River (new), Blackwater River
--Roanoke River Basin- Roanoke (Staunton) River, Kerr Reservoir and Dan River