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Bad grades for bay on report card

Published 04/03/08

It's report card time again for the Chesapeake Bay and the grades are dismal - especially for Anne Arundel County's rivers.

Courtesy of the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science This map shows grades for water quality in various parts of the Chesapeake Bay in 2007.
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An area called the Lower Western Shore - which includes the Magothy, Severn, South, West and Rhode rivers - earned the worst grades of the bay in a report card issued today by the University of Maryland.

It was one of two reports on bay health issued today; both highlighted problems in the estuary's water quality.

The Lower Western Shore earned a D- for 2007, which is even worse than the Patapsco River/Back River area in Baltimore that generally is regarded as one of the worst parts of the...

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SAD!!! - April 4, 2008

Until we get some politicians in office who will step up to the plate and do what really needs to be done to save the bay there is no hope! There need to be drastic measures taken to save the bay now, we need to wake up and do what needs to be done or the Chesapeake will be a dead body of water! It's very sad to sit back and watch such a wonderful gift of nature die ......

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