Locals call the river that runs through Richmond, Virginia, "James Brown" when it looks like this: a slick coffee-with-a-little-cream color that isn't appetizing. Not even Starbucks could sell it. When it's not colored by mud after a major storm, the James River is a rock star to this southern city, voted by Outside magazine as the nation's best river town. "On a warm day like this, there are usually thousands of people out on the river," says Pat Calvert, the Upper James Riverkeeper, whose job it is to monitor the health of Richmond's river.
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