Yes, Virginia, Washington DC is actually close to the Atlantic Ocean. More specifically, it’s next to the Chesapeake Bay. What happens when lots of people are close together? Waste. Where does waste go? In the bay. Where did the fish you ate from Ceiba last night come from? The bay.
Unfortunately, human development must continue, pollution be damned. As the Washington Post writes, Maryland’s Eastern Shore lies on the brink of rapid development — including a brand new 3,200 unit development project on more than 1,080 acres called Blackwater Resort. Save the Bay is spreading information on steps you can take to prevent this from happening.
DCers seem to have a curious blindness for the Chesapeake Bay. Maybe it’s because it’s just over the border in Maryland, but the Bay is critical to our ecosystem’s health.
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I swam in the Chesapeake Bay once in the early nineties… uggh! To imagine that the Bay has become worst is truly appalling. Maybe my children, if I can have any someday, will be mutated.
In spite of Omega 3, the natural oil found in fish that is supposed to be a very healthy source of cholestrol, I refuse to eat fish and usually stick to hormone injected beef or overly plump, caged raised chicken. When will the insanity ever end?
yeah i wasn’t too keen on the idea of hearing that they wanted to add 10,000 more residents to the bay area. I mean it’s already dirty as it is.
Last summer I’d go to sandy point, which is a beach by the bay bridge. In the beginning of the summer it’s clean, very refreshing. But by august, I couldn’t even go in the water. I could notice the pollution get worse the more times i went to the beach. It’s scary how that happens.
I hope people will fight to not have 10,000 more people to reside in the bay area.. that’s scary!