![]() Hogan didn’t say how much the demonstration project would cost. In particular, he cited “the need for the upstream states, Pennsylvania and New York - which are kind of behind schedule in lowering their pollution loads - to take this seriously and pick up the pace” of waterway cleanup. The Susquehanna River originates in New York, and Boesch said dealing with pollutants in the river and the sediment trapped at the Conowingo Dam is the responsibility of all the states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. ![]() Business & Finance Click to expand menu.ĭon Boesch, president of the University of Maryland Center of Environmental Science, said, “In the last 10 years, it’s filled up faster than we originally thought, so it’s made the problem more urgent.”īoesch says dredging alone can’t be the solution to curbing pollutants in the Chesapeake Bay: “We have to also deal with the original sources of the nutrients that come from up in the basin.”. ![]()
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