Chronicling the Chesapeake Bay: A Reporter's Notebook
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The Great Chesapeake Toilet Bowl
Is your favorite swimming spot dirtier than toilet water? That’s what News21 set out to learn this summer by taking water samples from popular beaches and recreation [...]
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Upper Marlboro Farm a Model of Best Practices
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. – The manager of Clagett Farm strides across a large pasture, expertly avoiding cow dung. As if accustomed to the drill, roughly 45 hungry [...]
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Migratory Birds, Fish Could Feel Impact of Gulf Spill
OCEAN CITY, Md.– It is extremely unlikely that oil from the British Petroleum spill in the Gulf of Mexico will make its way into Maryland’s waters, but [...]
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Fixing Anacostia Pollution Won’t Be Quick
WASHINGTON – Renovations to the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant — needed to help shore up an antiquated sewer system in the nation’s capital — are a [...]
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A Crabber’s Life: Days Are Consumed by the Water
SHADY SIDE, Md. – Capt. Bob Evans has the same routine six days a week, each and every week, during the warm months. He sets out on [...]
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All Signs Point to the Anacostia
News21 photo by Justin Karp Signs like the one above, which dot storm drains throughout the portion of Prince George’s County that lies in the Anacostia River [...]
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Experts: Gulf Oil Shouldn’t Threaten Md.
WASHINGTON – Seafood coming from the Gulf of Mexico region is “absolutely safe” and Maryland is “very, very unlikely” to see any oil from the British Petroleum [...]
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Chesapeake Dead Zone: Nation’s Third Largest
GLOUCESTER POINT, Va. — The Chesapeake Bay has the third largest “dead zone” or oxygen-starved area of water in the United States, typically spreading across 1,500 square [...]
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Suburbanites Disconnected from Impact on Anacostia
WASHINGTON – The stream that runs behind the houses in Salil Kharkar’s Silver Spring neighborhood impacts the quality of the water in the Anacostia River, just downstream. [...]
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Experts Question Spill Preparedness in Chesapeake
As Congress hears testimony about the handling of the Gulf of Mexico spill, scientists and environmentalists question how prepared the government is to respond if a ship [...]
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Bay Swim Attracts Hundreds in Balmy Conditions
News21 reporter Kate Yanchulis wrote the following — part of a longer story published by several area news organizations: SANDY POINT STATE PARK, Md. – Hundreds of [...]
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Swim in the Bay? No Way!
EASTON, Md. – Eighty-seven year old Clarence “Doc” Kuntz has been folding his long legs into borrowed kayaks for three years to pick up trash on the [...]
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