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Tuesday, June 16, 2015

EPA review finds Pennsylvania significantly off track to meet Bay goals

Pennsylvania this year needs to double the number of farm acres under nutrient management and plant seven times as many acres of forest and grass buffers as it did last year to help it get back on track to meet Chesapeake Bay nutrient reduction targets, but it lacks programs or policies to achieve either, according to an EPA review released Thursday.

The review also cast doubt on whether the state could ever meet its pollution reduction goals for urban stormwater.

Those points illustrate how far off track the watershed’s largest contributor of nutrient and sediment pollution is from meeting its goals. The EPA review warned Pennsylvania that if it does not ramp up efforts, the agency could take actions such as requiring greater pollution reductions from wastewater treatment plants — something that would be hugely expensive in Pennsylvania where plants tend to be smaller and more costly to upgrade.

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5 comments:

Anonymous said...

don't worry purdue's new hexane plant will take care of that!

Anonymous said...

With this information WHY is it the citizens of Maryland's financial responsibility to clean up the bay?

Anonymous said...

Maryland government should refuse to spend another dime or enforce another over-reaching law on homeowners and farmers until Pennsylvania reaches equal status and cleans up their polluted water.

Anonymous said...

This is the main reason way all the money we spend in Maryland for clean up is being wasted and will never fix the problem until PA and all surrounding states do there parts. Cleaning up the bay in Maryland has become the same as another tax increase.

Anonymous said...

All this evidence concerning what's coming into the bay from PA, and yet they still blame my septic system.