Tagged Stories: "nutrients"

Early Marchs heavy rains and snow melt caused a flood of nutrients and sediment to flow into the Chesapeake Bay from the Susquehanna River.

A USDA study shows that conservation practices have reduced nutrient and sediment pollution to the Bay and its rivers.

Virginia is poised to pass a law banning the sale of fertilizer containing phosphorus, a major pollutant in the Chesapeake Bay.

Learn more about one of the major stressors to the Bay’s health

Centuries of population growth and landscape changes have taken their toll on the Bay's water quality.

Bernie Fowler remembers the days when he could wade up to his shoulders in his beloved Patuxent River and still see the river's bottom, teem