Leaders target 2025 for bay cleanup

By PAMELA WOOD, Staff Writer

Published 05/13/09

MOUNT VERNON, Va. - Government leaders said yesterday that it could take until 2025 to bring the ailing Chesapeake Bay back to health.

Courtesy of Bob Gilbert Gov. Martin O'Malley talks about the new goals for restoring the Chesapeake Bay during a meeting of government leaders Tuesday on the Potomac River at George Washington's Mount Vernon Estate. Officials in states that drain into the bay set two-year goals, but ultimately leaders said it may now take until 2025 to significantly improve the bay's health.

Meeting as the Chesapeake Executive Council, leaders from bay-area states and the federal government made a new round of promises for cleaning up the bay.

The previous deadline for getting the Chesapeake Bay off the list of the nation's "impaired waters" was 2010. The group has now bumped that deadline to "no later than 2025."

"We have a long way to go, and no one can sugarcoat the challenge," Gov. Martin O'Malley said.

The 2025 goal is weaker...

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Federal Government Involvement - 2009-05-13 13:58:34

Is bringing the federal government in really going to do anything to improve the situation other than providing political cover to the cowardly politicians and elected leaders of Maryland who could have been doing the right thing all along but refused to enact the legislation. Just look at our own County Council who are more than happy to sit on their hands while Anne Arundel's stormwater system pumps pollution into the rivers and Bay during every rain storm.

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