On Dec. 29, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) for the Chesapeake Bay. The EPA released the TMDL with considerable fanfare, labeling the TMDL “a historic and comprehensive ‘pollution diet’ with rigorous accountability measures to initiate sweeping actions to restore clean water in the Chesapeake Bay and the region’s streams, creeks and rivers.”
The ambitious goal of the TMDL reflects the significant reductions of pollutants that the EPA seeks to achieve. The bay currently fails to meet water quality standards for dissolved oxygen, water clarity and chlorophyll–a. The EPA concluded that excessive loadings of the nutrients nitrogen and phosphorus and of sediment contribute to these impairments. These pollutants have degraded the habitat of fish, oysters, crabs and other aquatic organisms and threatened sensitive ecosystems.
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