The average size of the dead zone - 5 percent of the bay's main stem - was even worse than predicted. This spring, scientists working with the Chesapeake Bay Program predicted the dead zone might be the fourth-worst since it has been measured.
"May's ecological forecast warned us that the large amounts of pollution washing into the bay this spring was going to lead to a bad summer for oxygen levels in the bay," Dave Jasinski, University of Maryland Center for Environmental...
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