"A Trump administration proposal to roll back protections for some marshes and streams could affect more than 30,000 acres of wetlands in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, according to a new report.
Look at a map of the Eastern Shore, and you’ll see a maze of rivers and streams feeding into the Chesapeake Bay. What you probably won’t see is the patchwork of nearly 5,000 inland marshes known as the “Delmarva potholes” that could lose Clean Water Act protections.
“If you look at them across a field they look kind of like a forest,” says report co-author Tom Pelton, with the Environmental Integrity Project. “Then when you walk into them, you’re up to your ankles in water.”"
Jacob Fenston reports for WAMU December 18, 2018.
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"Will New "Waters of the U.S." Definition Leave Bay Wetlands Unprotected?" (Bay Journal)
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