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From Pittsburgh Post Gazette, February 1, 2013.
“State residents have voted the Monongahela River as Pennsylvania’s 2013 River of the Year.
The Mon, which flows through Greene, Fayette, Washington, Westmoreland and Allegheny counties, was chosen from among six candidates for the River of the Year honor, which is administered by the state Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and the Pennsylvania Organization for Watersheds and Rivers. This is the third year the contest has been determined by public online voting.
More than 25,000 ballots were cast, and the Mon eked out a win by securing 8,156 votes. The Schuylkill River of the Philadelphia area came in a close second, with 8,010 votes.
DCNR secretary Richard Allan said in a news release that the online voting “generates local enthusiasm for conservation and recognition of the importance of our waterways.””
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