Save the Bay - Spring 2015

Environmental Awareness Statement

The Chesapeake Bay Foundation saved the following resources in the production of this publication:

25 Trees

10,484 gallons Wastewater

17 million BTUs Total Energy

1,160 pounds Solid Waste

2,284 pounds Greenhouse Gases

Save the Bay is published three times a year and provided free of charge to CBF members by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, 6 Herndon Avenue, Annapolis, MD 21403.

Spring 2015 | Volume 41 • Number 1

Loren Anne Barnett, Editor/Director of Creative Services
Jen Wallace, Managing Editor
Alexandra Weil, Graphic Designer
© Chesapeake Bay Foundation 2015

E-mail: STBeditor@cbf.org

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Environmental impact estimates were made using the Environmental Defense Paper Calculator. www.papercalculator.org

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Editor’s Note

Sometimes, you have to choose between tightening your belt or losing your pants. In the Chesapeake Bay watershed, this is that time.

Five years have passed since the states wrote their own plans to meet the pollution-reduction goals set forth by EPA as part of the Chesapeake Clean Water Blueprint. We saw early progress in reductions from wastewater treatment.

Reducing pollution from agriculture—the biggest source of pollution to our waterways—has been problematic. Opposition from the Farm Bureau and other agricultural interests and a lack of funding has slowed progress.

As we approach the 2017 mid-Blueprint milestone, it appears that Maryland and Virginia are on track. Pennsylvania, the state with the biggest belt, is woefully behind. (page 5)

It will take all of us tightening up to achieve clean water.

Loren Anne Barnett
The inks used for this publication are based on linseed oil, a renewable
vegetable oil derived from flax and known for low toxicity.

OFFICERS

Alan R. Griffith

Chair

Jane P. Batten

Vice Chair

Carolyn Groobey

Vice Chair

William C. Baker

President

Fay R. Nance

Treasurer

Chuck Foster

Assistant Treasurer

Mary Tod Winchester

Secretary

TRUSTEES

Susan Aplin W. Russell G. Byers, Jr.

D. Keith Campbell
Michael J. Chiaramonte
Catherine Cullen
Thomas M. Davis III
Lauri Fitz-Pegado
Richard L. Franyo
Ann Fritz Hackett
Michael J. Hanley
Christian Hodges
Robert A. Kinsley
Burks B. Lapham
Katie Z. Leavy
Harry T. Lester
Byron F. Marchant
H. Turney McKnight
Charles W. Moorman
Pamela Murphy
Arnold I. Richman
Truman T. Semans
Anne B. Shumadine
J. Sedwick Sollers III
Bishop Eugene Taylor Sutton
Sandra Taylor
Anthony A. Williams
Susan P. Wilmerding
Peter L. Woicke
Alan L. Wurtzel

HONORARY TRUSTEES

Donald F. Boesch, Ph.D.

Louisa C. Duemling
C.A. Porter Hopkins
T. Gaylon Layfield III
H.F. Lenfest
M. Lee Marston
Wayne A. Mills
Marie W. Ridder
James E. Rogers
Russell C. Scott
Simon Sidamon-Eristoff
Jennifer Stanley
Thomas H. Stoner
Aileen Bowdoin Train
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