On Jul 28, 8:19Â*am, jamesgangnc wrote:
On Jul 28, 8:09Â*am, Harry  wrote:





On 7/28/10 8:05 AM, W1TEF wrote:

On Tue, 27 Jul 2010 22:03:53 -0400, Â*wrote:

i used to. never went swimming there....used to be at the 'chesapeake
yachting center' on frog mortar creek, and locust point marina on elk
river....

washington post has an interesting article on sewage in chesapeake

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...10/07/26/AR201....

makes me glad i now boat in new jersey (YES that's supposed to be
ironic!

ROTFL!!

Yeah - ironic is a good way to put it.

Speaking of pollution, are those carolina lakes still reeking from pig
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It's all relative. Â*There used to be a slaughter house on the potomac
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The bay is the end of a huge water shed. The point sources, sewage,
manufacturing, etc. have been regulated pretty well. They are not a
problem anymore. What is left is called "non-point". Pollutants that
originate from a wide area. Part of the solution is to tell a whole
lot of people that they can't fertilize their yards and farms as
much. How's that going to go over? Another part is to better control
the storm sewer runoff with more retention ponds and natural treatment
wetlands. That means a developer has to set aside land to be used for
that. That's land he can't make any money on. There is a lot of
resistance to that as well. Its a lot harder politically to regulate
that because people have a hard time accepting that someone is going
to tell them how much fertilizer they can use on their lawn a year.
And it's all pretty much unenforcable as well.