Chesapeake Bay Foundation Issues Statement On Chesapeake Bay Dead Zone Forecast
June 29, 2022
June 29, 2022
ANNAPOLIS, Maryland, June 29 -- The Chesapeake Bay Foundation issued the following agency statement on June 28, 2022:
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This summer the Chesapeake Bay's dead zone is predicted to be smaller than average. Researchers from the Chesapeake Bay Program, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, University of Michigan, and U.S. Geological Survey attribute the decline to the below average amount of water entering the Bay from the watershed's tributaries . . .
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This summer the Chesapeake Bay's dead zone is predicted to be smaller than average. Researchers from the Chesapeake Bay Program, the University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, University of Michigan, and U.S. Geological Survey attribute the decline to the below average amount of water entering the Bay from the watershed's tributaries . . .