The assessment also found that the sediment and nutrients swept over the dams during large storm events are among the pollution sources that should be addressed to protect water quality and aquatic life in the Chesapeake Bay. Another major finding is that nutrients that enter the river upstream of the dams – from Pennsylvania and New York – and attach to sediment particles before flowing downstream into the bay have a larger impact on water quality than sediment itself.
“Maryland stands ready to work in collaboration with our upstream neighbors and federal partners to fix the shared sediments and associated nutrients problem,” Maryland Environment Secretary Ben Grumbles said. “We must all embrace innovative and cost-effective solutions to ensure the cleanup of the Chesapeake Bay and reduce the Conowingo’s impact on meeting our water quality standards in all bay segments.”
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I comment every time you post an article about Conowingo Damn. I grew up 5 minutes away from there.
People of that area have been berated for years about pollution and how it hurts the bay, blah blah blah. I get it, we need to save the bay. I agree with the author 100%, we need to address the problems north of Maryland, since that is where they begin.
So it's not just Eastern Shore chicken and lawn growers.
If you read the article the problems north of the bay are being addressed the same way they are down here as well as other states.
Pennsylvania and New York are governed under the EPA Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements.
All six Chesapeake Bay watershed states -- MD, PA, NY, WV, VA, DE and the District of Columbia -- are responsible for meeting nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment load reductions.
Contrary to what most think no one down here including the chicken farmers are being singled out and are expected to do anything other (or more) than what everyone else is doing. If truth be told the chicken farmers down here have it made compared to everyone else because the MD tax payers are footing a lot of their bills to help get rid of their manure.
This is what I've been trying to explain to people. The Dam does NOT make pollution-it traps pollution and sediment coming from areas north. The Dam operators as well as tax payers are responsible for cleaning up pollution cause by factory farming. It's basic common sense large scale industrial factory farms are very bad for everyone. There is not a positive thing about them. Not only is the "food" they are producing of substandard quality the land can't handle the massive amounts of manure produced by them.
The newest thing is China is buying up large farms in the US so they can produce meat. and ship it back to China without fouling up their own land. Vote Trump. He has addressed this. China and other countries are importing cars, electronics, appliances, cleaning supplies, toys and everything else and we export meat all to the detriment of our land.
Pennsylvania and New York ARE under the same mandates as Maryland, however while Maryland is well ahead of schedule on their goals to cut down pollution. New York and especially Pennsylvania are way behind. With the dam no longer trapping any sediments now, it will only get worse.
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