Chesapeake Bay Program

The Chesapeake Bay watershed, located in the northeastern United States contains 64,000 square miles. The watershed is home to over 17 million people, along with countless plant and animal species. It also contains 150 major rivers and streams, and covers nearly 12,000 miles along the Atlantic coast, making it the largest estuary in the United States. With the Chesapeake Bay containing such a vast amount of water located along the coast of an ocean, pollution issues continually threaten the

controversial proposal since it was proposed on April 2013 by Governor Martin O’Malley. The tax’s purpose is to require local governments to charge a stormwater remediation fee to pay for removing pollutants from rainwater before it reaches the Chesapeake Bay. (Johnson & Wiggins, 2015). This tax law was highly criticized because it would enforce a fee only against a handful of counties and its homeowner citizens and not the whole state of Maryland. The general public

pollution in the Bay, along with sewage treatment plants. After regulations were put in place to correct these pollution point sources, local governments were required to establish and implement plans for improving the pollution from non-point sources and their impact on the TMDL. After years of committing to specific deadlines for a 40 percent reduction in nutrient pollution and missing those deadlines without consequences, the EPA took another approach, a mandatory pollution diet for the Bay that would

Washington, D.C. Ecological Issues Introduction: Ecologies and environments in the nation's capitol, Washington, D.C. Washington, D.C. is known for the White House, for Capitol Hill, all the monuments to great Americans and to historic moments. But there is a great deal more in the nation's capitol than politics and monuments. According to the Website HYPERLINK "http://www.washingtoncity.in" www.washingtoncity.in, the city's land covers more than "…sixty-one square miles" and the rivers and lakes

The main problem this paper intends to discuss regards the Gulf of Mexico dead zone. This dead zone, which for the most part encompasses the water off the coast of Louisiana, becomes depleted in dissolved oxygen. The dead zone is an outcome of nutrient runoff into the Gulf from urban areas, wastewater treatment plants, and from atmospheric deposition, however, the majority comes from fertilizers used in agriculture around the Mississippi River Basin. The increase in nutrients has been affecting the

money for the state, whether it be from people going crabbing or eating crabs. With all the benefits of blue crabs in Maryland, the government has taken a stand to ensure a large blue crab population in the future. The blue crab population in the Chesapeake Bay was considered to be a surplus from the 1950s to around the 2000s as well as in the Bay’s tributaries (Stagg & Whilden, 1997). The blue crabs in Maryland live for about three years (Stagg & Whilden, 1997). This is part of the reason that it’s

Ecosystems and the Impact of Global Warming Name Course Name Instructor's Name Date Contents RUNNING HEAD: Ecosystems and the Impact of Global Warming 1 Ecosystems and the Impact of Global Warming 1 Name 1 Course Name 1 Instructor's Name 1 Date 1 Introduction 3 Ecology of Virginia 3 Effect of Human Activities on the Ecosystem 5 Global Warming and Its Effect on Virginia Ecosystems 5 Conclusion 6 Introduction Ecology is the study of living organisms and their relationship

They prefer to be in sandy areas in shallow or deep water (Chesapeake Bay). Croakers are bottom feeders which means that they eat food on the ocean floor. This is because they are found in deep water. A bottom feeder diet includes other small fish and crustaceans (Chesapeake Bay). Shrimp can tolerate any level of salinity and prefer to live in the bottom of shallow waters (Arnott, Neil, Ansell 1998). They typically

Niko Taylor Informative Speech 10/23/17 Good afternoon, as I’m sure that you are all aware, each year the government composes a budget that is used to distribute funds to specific places in order to benefit our country. You see it all over your social media about how we may be spending too much money on our military or that we are unnecessarily cutting other departments funding. But what else is included in our budget? How much funding is our government providing to each of the other agencies? What

have lived in Chesapeake since five years of age. I have no recollections of previous areas I have lived in, so I consider Chesapeake my hometown. The most I know about Chesapeake is in reference to the Chesapeake Bay and local attractions in my area. Through researching the the following information about my city I have learned about more than just local attractions, but how it plays a role in my public health and the health of the communities surrounding Indian River. Chesapeake, Virginia was