Recreational Boat Pollution and the Chesapeake Bay
Author: Chesapeake Bay Commission
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 23
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Author: Chesapeake Bay Commission
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 23
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: James Leonard Highsaw
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Published: 1980
Total Pages: 154
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Andrew S. Milliken
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 36
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Governmental Affairs. Subcommittee on Governmental Efficiency and the District of Columbia
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Published: 1983
Total Pages: 160
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Steven Gebauer Davison
Publisher: Cornell Maritime Press/Tidewater Publishers
Published: 1997
Total Pages: 298
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough media reports suggest that there always has been public concern over the health of the Chesapeake Bay, this is a fairly recent phenomenon. For centuries people saw the bay as a bottomless sink for waste products--a natural decomposer with the ability to freshen itself with ocean inflows. Not until human health and livelihood seemed threatened did people begin to think seriously about management by such methods as treating sewage and limiting seafood harvests. Chesapeake Waters chronicles four centuries of public attitudes about the bay--and legislative responses to them--from 1607, the date of the first English settlement in Jamestown, Virginia, to the close of the twentieth century. In the last few decades, wide-reaching measures by federal and local governments have influenced how people use the bay: the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency completed a massive study of bay quality; the Chesapeake Bay Program was launched; the Critical Area Protection Act went into effect. The authors make sense of these complex programs, place them in historical context, and explain how they have improved the quality of bay waters. Chesapeake Waters is as much about the power of public perception as it is about efforts to oversee bay water quality. In a work rich with anecdotes and historical art and photos, the authors relate how human attitudes and ideas have shaped four hundred years of decisions about the Chesapeake Bay.
Author: Robin Herbst
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Published: 2002
Total Pages: 68
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Tom Horton
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Published: 1991
Total Pages: 358
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Chesapeake Bay is one of the most productive and important ecosystems on earth, and as such is a model for other estuaries facing the demands of commerce, tourism, transportation, recreation, and other uses. Turning the Tide presents a comprehensive look at two decades of efforts to save the bay, outlining which methods have worked and which have not.
Author: Chesapeake Bay Commission
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Published: 1990
Total Pages: 58
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Richard Albright
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Published: 2013-05-29
Total Pages: 180
ISBN-13: 1118756665
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis unique book focuses attention on the failure of current efforts to cleanup the Chesapeake Bay and suggests an approach often used in cleaning up environmentally damaged sites While military munitions sources contribute significantly to the pollution and degradation of Chesapeake Bay, they have been completely overlooked in many of the efforts to restore the Bay. Death of the Chesapeake explores this important aspect of the nation's environmental health. The book also recognizes for the first time that efforts to restore the Bay have failed because of the violation of a fundamental precept of environmental cleanup; that is, to sample the site and see what's there. The Bay itself has never been sampled. Thus, this book presents a view of the environmental condition of Chesapeake Bay that is totally unique. It covers a part of the history of the Bay that is not widely known, including how the Bay was formed. It presents a mixture of science, military history, and novel solutions to the Bay's degradation. In so doing, the author examines the military use of the Bay and reveals the extent that munitions dumpsites containing nitrogen and phosphorus as well as chemical warfare material are affecting the environment. The book concludes with the author's own cleanup plan, which, if implemented, would go a long way toward restoring health to the Bay. The book is supplemented with many photographs and maps.