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The Environmental Protection Agency has “no confidence” that a plan to mitigate sediment pollution overflowing from behind the Conowingo Dam will be completed due to inadequate funding.
The Environmental Protection Agency has “no confidence” that a plan to mitigate sediment pollution overflowing from behind the Conowingo Dam will be completed due to inadequate funding.
The Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint was established a dozen years ago when the six states in the Chesapeake Bay’s watershed, as well as the District of Columbia, agreed to a host of pollution reduction measures supposed to be implemented by 2025.
This year, the Chesapeake Bay Program partners found the size of the bay’s dead zone to be “average” — one year after its size was the second-smallest recorded since 1985.
In August and September, calm winds and persistently warm temperatures allowed the Chesapeake Bay's dead zone to grow larger and linger longer than average.