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A 14-mile reservoir behind the Conowingo hydroelectric generating dam in northern Maryland stops two million pounds of sediment every year from flowing into the Chesapeake Bay. But another one million pounds get through, burying underwater grasses that support sea life and adding to the bay’s myriad pollution problems.
The reservoir that stores the sediment, essentially dirt and other material carried by the water, is expected to reach capacity within 20 years, after which all of the sediment will get through the dam, putting the bay’s health further at risk.
Exelon Power, which owns the Conowingo Dam, is negotiating a new license with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission that would last for 46 years. State officials and others say the time is now to resolve the sediment buildup.
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6 comments:
This Alone is the Majority of the source of the bays pollution. this info should be shouted out continually to as many as possible as to Stop infringing on our property rights. Stop the chocking regulations that our state and counties have accepted because they don't have the brains to check out the truth (investigate) to get to the truth or don't have the ba--s to just say NO; we will not accept your findings and your regulations. why can't they say to the powers that be; prove to us in definitive terms why you think our septic systems are polluting the bay. i'm still mad as h--l that the Wicomico county council didn't reject this tier system like some other counties who had the b--ls to do so.
I'm sensing a payoff in the works....and a rate increase for Exelon's customers, no matter who they are.
Lets just keep blaming the farmers on the peninsula!
The rain tax will fix all this, oh, wait, we need a new light rail system and new busses and new....
well that can be fixed with another save the bay tax, dontcha know?
12:37:
AMEN, right on!
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