Dredging millions of tons of sediment from the Susquehanna River upriver of the Conowingo Dam would potentially cost billions of dollars and do little to help the Chesapeake Bay compared with cleanup efforts already underway, a new federal-state study found.
Gov.-elect Larry Hogan and critics of the current pollution-fighting strategies contend that removing massive amounts of sediment flowing down the river would help restore the Chesapeake more than controversial measures to levy stormwater fees, restrict septic-based development or limit farming practices.
The study, to be released Thursday by state officials and the Army Corps of Engineers, concludes that the sediment washed into the bay from the Susquehanna after extreme weather mostly hurts a small part of the upper bay. The study was launched following Tropical Storm Lee three years ago.
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8 comments:
Ok, so I'm supposed to believe that the run off from farms and septic systems here on Delmarva are causing most of the pollution of the Chesapeake Bay...
Conowingo Dam, industrial and commercial complexes on the western shore and up to N.Y. and Pennsylvania. hmmmmm
Common Sense; it's NOT Delmarva.
They raise billions via taxes, fees and donations... where is the money going, if they won't do this? It's going in executives pockets. Lazy career non profit trash! Stupid tree hugging hippies.
Why does it have to be an "or"? Both need to be done. While I think the farmers have done about all that is financially feasible for them. The sewage treatment plants need major upgrades (look at the Wicomico river) and home owners need to be educated about the real cost of that fluorescent green grass!
7:45-But we are one heck of a scapegoat.
Do they not realize that water runs DOWNSTREAM and carries pollutants with it?
Did Memo Diriker do this nonsense study too?
It's an US Army Corps of Engineers study! If anything, they should be the ones most politically aligned with supporters of the Conowingo dredging operations.
Yet here is this study, which contradicts political logic. Science overrules.
Who said the Army Corps of Engineers has any credibility. The results of any "study" are the results desired by whoever PAID for it..
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