The Chesapeake Bay as a whole should only have 187.4 million pounds of nitrogen and 12.5 million pounds of phosphorus flowing into it each year, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has determined.
In 2009, the pollution loads were 247.5 million pounds of nitrogen and 16.62 million pounds of phosphorus.
The pollution limits are part of the baywide "total maximum daily load" or...
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