PA Environment Digest Blog: York Daily Record/USA Today Special Report: PA’s Polluted Susquehanna River Is Poisoning The Chesapeake Bay

On February 3, the York Daily Record and USA Today published a Special Report - Pennsylvania’s Polluted Susquehanna River Is Poisoning The Chesapeake Bay - What Can Be Done.

The 15 articles in the Special Report catalogue the sources of water pollution affecting the Susquehanna River and the Bay and its impact on the economy, ecology, fish and wildlife species that depend on clean water.

It also looks ahead on what the likely impact of climate change will be on pollution problems, flooding and wildlife.

Here are links to all 15 articles, leading off with the introduction--

-- PA’s Polluted Susquehanna River Is Poisoning The Chesapeake Bay. What Can Be Done [Links To 12 Main Articles]

-- Pennsylvania Is Failing The Chesapeake Bay - Here’s How that Affects You

-- ‘It’s Part Of Your Being’: A Family’s Susquehanna River Life From Headwaters To The Chesapeake Bay

-- Susquehanna River Water Goes South From Otsego Lake - Figuratively And Literally

-- How Amish Farming Practices, Old Mill Dams Harm The Susquehanna & Chesapeake Bay And How To Fix It

-- Dammed If You Dredge, Dammed if You Don’t: Conowingo Dam’s Toxic Muck A Vexing Problem For Chesapeake Bay

-- Raw Sewage In The Susquehanna: PA ‘State Government Is Basically Defecating In The River’

-- Worst-Case Scenario For Susquehanna River & Chesapeake Bay: Climate Change, Flooding, Dead Zones, Crab Depletion

-- 5 Things Govt. Leaders Can Do To Save The Susquehanna River And The Chesapeake Bay

-- 8 Simple Things YOU Can Do To Restore The Susquehanna River And Save The Chesapeake Bay

-- Dammed, Drugged & Poisoned: 3 Iconic Susquehanna Species Struggle To Survive

-- Hell-Bent For Hellbenders: ‘The Canary In The Coal Mine’ Of The Susquehanna River Watershed

-- This ‘Dead Creek’ Runs Orange With Acid Mine Discharge, Poisoning The Susquehanna

-- The 444 Club: Boating The Entire Susquehanna River Propels Paddlers Into Another World

-- Fishing For Monsters ‘Out Of The Abyss’: Flathead Catfish In The Susquehanna River

-- Total Maximum Daily Load: A Pollution Diet For The Chesapeake Bay

PA Chesapeake Bay Plan

For more information on how Pennsylvania plans to meet its Chesapeake Bay cleanup obligations, visit DEP’s PA’s Phase 3 Watershed Implementation Plan webpage.

Click Here for a summary of the steps the Plan recommends.

How Clean Is Your Stream?

DEP’s Interactive Report Viewer allows you to zoom in on your own stream or watershed to find out how clean your stream is or if it has impaired water quality using the latest information in the draft 2020 Water Quality Report.

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