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Post by Gitsum on Aug 16, 2018 11:22:54 GMT -5
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Post by Gitsum on Aug 16, 2018 11:24:25 GMT -5
Double post
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Post by hookedup on Aug 16, 2018 13:44:56 GMT -5
I understand several experts with Chesapeake Bay Clean Water say this is going to put cleaning up the bay back by 5 years. The muck coming from Pennsylvania is the color of chocolate milk and it will take a long time to restore the bay to blue once again. And, the water is full of nutrients which the bay doesn't need.
Maybe one day we'll figure out that beautiful lawns and farms down to the waters edge are bad. I leave the last 25 feet in my yard alone since it empties into the Northwest River and eventually the Albemarle Sound and Atlantic Ocean. It may not look as good as the rest of the lawn, but I know it's the right thing to do. I've had to stop neighbors from dumping oil into the street drains. They thought it went to the sanitary system, until I showed them the oil slick on the water behind my house that they'd caused.
Going to take a bit of education (hey, something public schools could teach?) and probably some stronger laws and penalties before things like this stop happening. My guess is the Susquehanna is always dumping mess into the Chesapeake Bay, but it's only noticed when these floods occur.
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Post by ragtop409 on Aug 17, 2018 9:19:19 GMT -5
Here in the Tampa Bay Area they don’t even sell the “good” lawn fertilizer from Memorial Day to Labor Day. Just to need it and run off out of our waters, as that is typical our rainy season. Rag’s
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Post by hookedup on Aug 17, 2018 10:19:47 GMT -5
I realize a lot of what's coming into the Chesapeake Bay right now is from flooding, so not too much that could probably be done to avoid the pollution and run off, but that fertilizer ban you have during the rainy season might help here too. A quick ride around the Lynnhaven river would probably show only about 1 in 30 homes with some sort of runoff control. Most are grass down to the bulkhead or rip-rap and well fertilized. For years the Lynnhaven was closed to shellfish due to pollution and has slowly gotten back to being a good place for oysters and clams. I'd just like to see more done to continue the improvement there and in the Chesapeake Bay too.
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Post by fishnfool on Aug 17, 2018 12:21:47 GMT -5
The issue with the damn is the shear inundation when releasing a of that built sediment and debris at once. It is a shock to the ecosystem and proves catastrophic.
I say get rid of the damn and replace it with nuclear power, the bay and the people that rely on it for their livelihood would be better off for it.
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