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Chesapeake wade-in season begins

Published 05/11/07

Twenty years ago, an environmentally minded state senator named Bernie Fowler convinced a bunch of people to come down to Calvert County and wade into the Patuxent River until they could no longer see their shoes.

By Joshua McKerrow - The Capital Measuring at the wade in at Weems Creek are, from left Mike Christman and his son Teague Christman 2, and Corinne Irwin.
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That rough demonstration of water clarity (or lack of it) struck a chord with environmentalists.

Now wade-ins are held throughout Maryland's part of the Chesapeake Bay each May and June.

They're sometimes criticized as being unscientific - something supporters don't dispute.

But they get people out in the water, thinking about how clean and clear it is, or isn't. And that, supporters say, is what it's all...

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