Virginia added about 1,100 miles to its list of polluted rivers and streams in the past two years,bringing the total to 10,604 miles, according to a report Monday from the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

“We have a polluted river from Richmond to California and back — twice,” said Mike Gerel, staff scientist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, a nonprofit advocacy group for the nation’s largest estuary. “The more we look, the more pollution we find.”

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