BALTIMORE - A federal judge's approval of a monitoring agreement
between the owners of the Sparrows Point steel plant and environmental
regulators is being appealed by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, the
environmental group announced Wednesday.
In March, U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz approved the
agreement between RG Steel and federal and state regulators. Under the
agreement, which followed a lengthy dispute over monitoring for toxic
contaminants at the mill outside Baltimore, the company is required to
sample sediments no more than 50 feet offshore. Environmentalists have
argued contaminants have been found much further offshore.
The foundation said it was seeking a much more comprehensive
assessment in Bear Creek and the Patapsco River near the hulking
Baltimore County mill.
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