UM team finds follow up on river projects lacking

Each year, more stream restoration projects are done per river mile in the Chesapeake Bay than in any other part of the country -- yet the area does the nation's worst job of following up to see if it actually helps the environment, according to a new report.

A team based at the University of Maryland, College Park, compiled records on more than 37,000 stream restoration projects, ranging from Anne Arundel County's smallest creeks to streams that feed the mighty Mississippi River. More often than not, they found no documentation about what happened after the project was finished. That means there's no way to know what works, and...