Nov 20, 2007 7:07 pm US/Eastern
Bay Is Big Winner Of Special Session
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About $50 million was set aside to help turn around an increasingly polluted bay.
AP
The Chesapeake Bay turned out to be one of the big winners in the recent special session of the Maryland legislature.
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Alex DeMetrick reports, $50 million was set aside to help turn around an increasingly polluted bay.
The Chesapeake Bay conjures its own unique images, but not all of them are pretty. Fish kills, algae blooms and dead water are some of the negatives.
People who work on the bay have watched it get progressively worse, but that may be changing.
During its recent special session to deal with the deficit, state lawmakers earmarked $50 million to be spent improving the bay's health.
"I think the governor and the legislators understand we've had an environmental deficit for many years. We're playing catch up trying to improve the environment, improve the Chesapeake Bay," said Will Baker with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
The Bay Foundation wants steps taken to keep pollutants on land from entering waterways. On farms, that means better disposal of animal waste and planting cover crops. In urban areas, that means better control of storm run-off and the planting of buffer zones to absorb the nutrients that feed algae blooms.
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