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Environment
Published
08/28/10
This year I observed (no celebration) my 65th birthday and accepted the cruel reality that the Chesapeake Bay is unlikely to be significantly cleaner in my lifetime. It wasn’t easy. Find Us On Facebook
My first visit to the beautiful bay was at about age 5. Over these 60 years I have lived on the Severn River, within walking distance of the South River and Eastern Bay and kept boats on Rockhold Creek and West River.
The details of the bay’s slow death over this period are well documented by scientists and scholars. The change from a bay of abundance to one of ulcerated rockfish, health-threatening bacteria and oxygen-starved...
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