An editorial in today’s paper recommends starting a irrevocable fund devoted permanently to Chesapeake cleanup.
Quotes include:
“For all of the progress we have made upgrading sewage treatment plant technologies, we’re losing ground on impervious surfaces: rooftops, driveways, roads – all of which carry sediment,” said Secretary of Natural Resources L. Preston Bryant Jr. “I would say we’re having a hard time now achieving the environmental protections to offset that kind of rapid growth. We can’t conserve land fast enough to offset some of the other stuff.”
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