Our Bay: This Week's Take: Local Government Set Pollution-Busting Examples

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation’s 2012 "State of the Bay" report tells us the health of the Chesapeake Bay has improved 14 percent since 2008. But that doesn’t tell the whole story.

Throughout Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, we hear about local governments, businesses and citizens rolling up their sleeves to reduce pollution from all sectors — agriculture, sewage treatment plants and urban and suburban runoff. They are working to restore local rivers and streams.

That is the goal of the federal/state Chesapeake clean water blueprint (formally known as the Total Maximum Daily Load and state Watershed Implementation Plans). The blueprint, if fully implemented with programs in place by 2025, will restore clean water throughout the Chesapeake’s 64,0000-square-mile watershed.
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