Countdown to 2017: risks to the Chesapeake Bay

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Check out this Center for Progressive Reform report Countdown to 2017 Five Years In, Chesapeake Bay TMDL at Risk Without EPA Enforcement Executive Summary When the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) created the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (Bay TMDL) out of local TMDLs for 92 individual Bay segments in 2010, reactions were polarized. Supporters […]

EIP report: Frederick County discharges 111,158 pounds of nitrogen/year over permitted level

Last week the Environmental Integrity Project released its report The Clean Water Act and the Chesapeake: Enforcement’s Critical Role in Restoring the Bay (December 2012)  Appendix A in that report shows the Ballenger McKinney Waste Water Treatment Plant discharging  111,158 pounds of nitrogen each year over the permitted level.  It is the worst offender in the entire […]

Citizen examines reports on waste water treatment capacity

Frederick City resident, concerned by the debate and potential problems with wastewater treatment capacity in Frederick County, did his analysis of the DUSWM narrative and the FoFC report, and then sent this  Narrative Analysis of the DUSWM Report  to the Board of County Commissioners.    

Frederick County farmer speaks out in favor of better farm management to protect our streams

www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/readersrespond/bs-ed-bay-pollution-20120303,0,3882790.story baltimoresun.com New rules must require all farmers do their fair share to clean up the bay 12:45 PM EST, March 3, 2012 Regarding your recent commentary on animal waste and pollution in the Chesapeake Bay, I would like to point out that agriculture is not a monolithic industry uniformly opposed to the regulation of […]