At least that is the key finding of a water quality experiment conducted last month by reporters at the University of Maryland working for News21, a national consortium of journalism schools.
The team took water samples before and after significant rainfall at seven beaches and recreation spots along five rivers that feed the Chesapeake Bay, including two in Anne Arundel County.
Their goal was to gauge the impact of stormwater - one of the fastest-growing pollution...
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on the mark - 2010-08-10 08:19:08
sal... I completely agree with how inconsistent our "bay reports" are. One week we read a report about how terrible the bay is, and the next theres one lauding the great progress thats been made and how much things have improved...then the next week theres a report saying how terrible things are.
Its really difficult to decipher what the heck is really going on and if there truly IS any progress being made.
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Selling the Bay Down the River - 2010-08-09 23:37:24
Harry, the problem is not nearly as convoluted as the politicos would have you believe. The fact that the Chesapeake Bay, which should be the crown jewel of American waterways, is an open cesspool is because of failure, bordering on corruption, of our federal, state, county, and city representatives. All of them. Take the most ardent bay-friendly environmentalist in state government, and his actionable efforts to preserve the bay can be measured as laughably weak. Oh, hell do just enough that he can tout his bay-friendly efforts in re-election ads, but he is being treated to dinner by lobbyists representing the chicken or farming industries who will suggest that, sure, saving the bay is great, but we should take bay reforms very, very slowly since so many jobsvoter jobsare at stake. So some weak, watered-down, ineffectual legislation is proposed and passed. And the Chesapeake Bay Foundation will take that tiny, stupid victory and blow it up into a huge feel-good moment that leads people to believe that, hey, the bay is going to be okay after all. But its not. And the lobbyists continue to write the legislation that will be passed by the legislators who have been in office since Christ was in kindergarten. BUT, come election timeevery candidate is pro-bay. And like suckers, we fall for it every time. Because everyone hates Congressexcept for their own representatives. How stupid are we?
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CRAP - 2010-08-09 21:59:48
The only difference is when its calm it's lying on the bottom, and when it rains it stirs up. Either way, it's still there. I think it's odd this comes out when summer is almost over?? These studies should be done prior to the break, and several times during..so swimmers, boaters, etc can be kept informed of what they are in for.
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Mill and Dividing Creeks - 2010-08-09 12:08:11
These two creeks are still closed a week after another failure of sanitary sewer lines. This area has had 3 million gallons of raw sewage in 3 years. Interesting there does not appear to be more comments or responses to on-going failure of our infrastructure. This and fact each time it rains multiple areas are closed for unsanitary conditions is unacceptable.
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