Posts Tagged ‘Gerald-Winegrad’
Polluters and Their Allies Attack Chesapeake Pollution Diet
(Posted by Gerald Winegrad)
Despite repeated written commitments and solemn pledges made over the last 27 years, the states in the Bay watershed have failed by wide margins to reduce the nutrient, sediment, and chemical pollutants poisoning the Chesapeake Bay. The voluntary-collaborative Chesapeake Bay Program has failed to restore the Bay’s waters from being so polluted that 90 percent of the water does not meet basic Clean Water Act standards.
Read MoreSome Inconvenient Truths About Restoring the Bay
(Posted by Gerald Winegrad)
Please join me, Friday, Nov. 19, 3:00 p.m. in Room 1140 of the Plant Sciences Building at the University of Maryland, College Park for a presentation on the status of Chesapeake Bay restoration and what needs to be done. The states have repeatedly failed to meet agreed upon pollution reductions and the EPA has set a pollution diet (TMDL) that requires states to reduce pollutants or face federal sanctions for the first time. Efforts to achieve Bay restoration are still lagging as 90 percent of the Bay’s waters fail to meet Clean Water Act requirements and therefore, the states are in violation of the Clean Water Act.
Read MoreSaving the Bay
(Posted by Gerald Winegrad)
My name is Gerald Winegrad and I’m worried about the future of the Chesapeake Bay. I grew up in Annapolis and spent many a summer day with my friend Michael Bailey fishing all around Annapolis. Michael Bailey is now dead and the Bay is dying.
Earlier this month, my wife and I were planning our big annual end of summer crab feast on our deck on Oyster Creek south of Annapolis. We have two crab pots and had a dozen crabs to share but for 22 family members, I had to find a bushel of nice ones. So I called local waterman (a dying breed) who I knew from years back and tried to order a bushel of crabs. He had sold me a busting bushel of fat Jimmies in May but told me an incredibly sad story: Now, when crabs should be plentiful, he could not catch even a bushel because dead water had killed every crab in his pots in the West River. He was saddened not just because his livelihood was hurt, but at the terrible waste caused by oxygen deprived water killing every crab.
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