In the roaring waters of the gorges in the Potomac River above Washington, as many as nine people drowned in accidents each year during the 1990s.
Yet in 2005, there were no accidental deaths, though a few people did take their own lives in the Potomac River, and the annual averages have sunk to two or three deaths.
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