The Chesapeake Bay cleanup has gotten more aggressive in recent years, but it faces challenges from climate change to perhaps an overly optimistic public, a new report says.
The National Academy of Sciences, a respected nonprofit institution, issued the report Wednesday.
Bay improvements can lag cleanup efforts, the report said.
"If the public expects visible, tangible evidence of … improvements in fairly short order, they will almost certainly become frustrated," it said.
Despite cleanup efforts that date to the 1980s, the bay remains fouled by pollution from sources including farms, sewage treatment plants and suburban storm water runoff.
The current plan calls for putting measures in place by 2025 that should clean the bay.
The cleanup has become more aggressive in recent years, including the adoption of two-year milestones, or short-term goals, the report said.
"Possible cleanup strategies, the report said, include better managing farm manure, increasing air pollution controls and ensuring that people maintain their septic systems"
ReplyDeleteOnce again Maryland doesn't want to face the fact most of the pollution comes from Baltimore, DC, and the northern Bay. They will keep making the Eastern Shore pay for their mess.
If the western shore would quit dumping into the bay maybe it would recover.They can keep blaming farmers but thats a lie they're trying to drive farmers out of business so their land can be developed and raise more tax revenue.
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