OCEAN CITY — With so much focus on restoring the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland’s coastal bays in and around Worcester County got a fiscal shot in the arm this week when the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) approved the state’s proposed budget for cleaning up pollution in the local waterways.
The budget calls for pollution reductions in the coastal bays of up to 35 percent for nitrogen and up to 18 percent for phosphorous. Higher reductions are required in some of the bays’ tributaries.
The pollution limits, designed to improve conditions for aquatic life and shellfish harvesting, are outlined in a series of Total Maximum Daily Loads, or TMDLs, submitted to the EPA by the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE). A TMDL is essentially a calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant a body of water can absorb and tolerate while still meeting the state’s water quality standards.
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EPA, go away, leave us alone...
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It looks like this is yet another well funded nonprofit scamming the public into thinking we are the cause of a polluted Chesapeake Bay. Just look to the headwaters and the Canawingo Dam.
ReplyDeleteTo Bad James Mathias is on the bandwagon to make us pay for what the north is doing to us.
Wicomico River would be cleaner if Salisbury would stop Raw dumping of waste.
ReplyDeleteMaybe the golf courses around OC will stop fertilizing the courses to reduce run-off and ban the home owners from fertilizing their lawns in OC and West OC.
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