Pollution in Chesapeake Bay Essay -- Environment Environmentalism

Chesapeake Bay Television commercials, print ads, and billboards in the Washington, DC, area are asking residents to connect two things many might find unrelated: lawn care and seafood. In one commercial, a man stuffs a big plateful of grass in his mouth after a voice-over says, â€Å"Spring rains carry excess lawn fertilizers through our sewers and rivers and into the Chesapeake Bay, where the blue crab harvest has been extremely low. So skip the fertilizer until fall, because once they’re gone, what’s left to enjoy?†(Environment, p. 7) This ad is directed to many people in the Chesapeake Bay region because there are tons of pollution each year that are destroying the nation’s largest estuary, or part of a body of water where the fresh and salt water mix, and are also killing the Bay’s crabs, oysters, and fish, which is a huge industry in the area and also something the state of Maryland is known nationally for (Environment, p. 8). Pollution is destroying the Chesapeake Bay every single day, however now people are taking steps in the right direction to fix this problem but many people fear that time has run out. The amazing part about the steps being taken to try to save the Chesapeake Bay is how much scientists and people who carry out legislation in the local and state governments are working together to try and create policies on businesses and people to cut back on the problems in the Bay. Scientists have given an unthinkable amount of attention to the Bay of the past several years and researchers from countless numbers of agencies and institutions have dove deep into the issues and studying every nook and cranny to create answers to every politicians’ questions. The biggest concern with the Bay, and the most concentrated ... ...us estimates about what a proper cleanup would cost from $1 billion to $30 billion, with most estimates hovering around $15 billion.† That is a lot of money. To go as far as bumper stickers and billboards just might be too much for the public to handle though. The Chesapeake Bay’s slogan of â€Å"Save the Bay† is on everything they produce. I would never call a body of water â€Å"dead† especially one that has been so instrumental to the development of this area. The Chesapeake Bay can still be restored and become a profitable, beautiful bay. I just thing time has already run out. Reference Brown, Kathryn S. â€Å"Changing Chesapeake.† Bioscience 46.6 (1996): 397. Powledge, Fred. â€Å"Chesapeake Bay Restoration: A Model of What?† Bioscience 55.12 (2005): 1032-1038 â€Å"Restoring the Chesapeake Bay.† Population Reports 26.1 (1998): 26. â€Å"Save the Bay.† Environment 40.4 (1998): 21.