By james art 
The recent edition presented by former Senator Gerald Winegrad hit the chord with me (“The Dream of the restored Bay of Chesapike is in a difficult position | comment on the guests”, February 10). As the Patuxent River, working for 30 years to improve the quality of water, I can testify how official efforts to restore Chesapike and its rivers are sunk into their lowest abyss.
The Environmental Protection Agency has apparently failed to impose the requirements of the Federal Clean Water Law and reluctantly force Chesapik Bay countries to fulfill their duties to reduce pollutants when dealing with agricultural nutrients and sludge. This industry is the main culprit in the worsening of the bay.
In the meantime, Maryland failed to reign in huge quantities of nitrogen and phosphorus, pouring into the bay, and its groundwater of 2 million acres of farms, where industrialized chicken produces millions of pounds of raw excrement, adding to nutritional flows of nitrogen-intensive grains grown, for To feed 269 millions of chickens a year.
The EPA acknowledges that the alleged significant nutrient reductions have been grossly overrated. This is due to the ineffectiveness of the best management practices that farmers have been bribed with billions of dollars for application. For the protocol, I live in a working farm near the Patuktenn River, which has been in my family for 100 years since 2025.
Adding the discrepancy is an increase in the number of farm animals and in the amount of agricultural fertilizers used to grow grains. Maryland and other states of the Bay have also failed miserable in limiting the flows of pollutants from developed and developing land.
I have collaborated with Senator Winegrad for decades, trying to solve these problems, and now I share my despair and disgust with the irreconcilability in EPA and Bay countries to impose and meet the boundaries of pollutants that were set in 2010 that will be Completed until 2025. They. They are glad to kick the box on the road once again while wearing agribusiness and the jungle for development.
It seems that the nervous and disproportionate response to the environmental community seems to be linked to maintaining the flow of money in the system they share. As 50 leading scientists have concluded, voluntary programs, even with liberal flows of money, have failed and will not be able to reduce the significant pollutants of the farm and development.
It is time for our alleged Bay leaders to admit this and take the necessary regulatory actions that everyone should know that they are needed so far. Otherwise, the mighty Chesapik and its rivers will never be better than today with diseases that feed on flesh and dominant fishing.
– Frederick L. Tutman
The writer is the Patukenth River.