Extracted from the Bay Journal by Jeremy Cox
After 30 years of slow progress toward restoring the health of the Chesapeake Bay and its rivers, federal agencies adopted a new strategy in 2014 with goals for 2025. The 2014 strategy added three more states and finally encompasses the entire 64,000 square mile drainage. It featured enforceable pollution caps set by the EPA for nutrients and sediment and set goals for restoring oyster habitat, planting streamside buffers, improving fish passage and a host of other measures intended to be implemented by 2025.
As 2025 approaches, many of the accomplishments are falling short of the goals and policy makers are not sure what to do next. On July 1, the Bay Program released a draft report that updates the 2014 strategy. The 18-page report is at chesapeakebay.net and public comment is sought through August 30, 2024 via comments@chesapeakebay.net.
See the original Bay Journal article at here.
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