Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort languishes

Gunny

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By David A. Fahrenthold
Washington Post

Despite 25 years and almost $6 billion, the government campaign to clean up the Chesapeake Bay has failed to meet its deadlines.

A tour of the Chesapeake and its watershed shows what happened: Solutions to the pollution problems were often obvious. But governments struggled to implement them on a large scale, unable to overcome budget shortages, bureaucratic inertia and political opposition from farmers, builders, watermen and other groups.

Cleanup impeded across Chesapeake - Washington Post- msnbc.com
 
Don't know the full situation there, but we have some superfund sites here, and the corperations that created them no longer exist. Then there is the agriculture problem with the runoff from the farms and dairy operations. And the crabbers that, if they continue as they are, will destroy the resource, but have no other employment. We need to cleanup all of our waterways, they are treasures that we should be handing our children in pristine condition, but it is not going to be easy. Many people will have to change the way they presently do things.
 

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