Shantana Burrell
Poisoned Waters Essay
10/27/14
There are many issues and concerns in Chesapeake Bay Estuary. Issues with Agriculture, air pollution and water pollution. In the video someone mentioned that the unfortunate reality is people get sick from water every day and we there is information suggesting that problem is getting worst today than it was 10 years ago and this problem is a result of a number of different contaminants being in the water that ultimately can make people sick. Within the bay there are many environmental declines. Also from the video we know that in this day and age were at a point at which this system called the Chesapeake bay maybe on the verge of seizing to function in its most basic capacity. Providing a place …show more content…
Like they believed that the chicken farms were a large form for pollution. They believe the chicken farms are polluting the bay, because of the chicken manure. Phosphorus runs off the farms and into the estuary and bay, where it enriches algae. Most of the pollution in the bay is from agricultural. Perdue and Tyson own chickens and fee but not the waste. Factoring faming growth caused more water pollution. Agricultural is responsible was 60% of our water. A lot of chicken farms produce more than the annual human waste. Upon doing some additional research I found that Perdue, poultry farm was sued for polluting Chesapeake Bay in March 2010. The suit was filed by the Assategue Coastal Trust; They claim that the water that flowed off a farm that was near Berlin,Md carries very high levels of bacteria and pollutants were blamed for the Chesapeake’s “dead zones.” The reason the environmentalists believe that the farm was polluting the bay was because they think that the owners of the farm was storing their chicken manure in a large outdoor pile made up of manure near ditches. Those ditches are most likely the reason why the bay got polluted because when it rains there is most likely run off with the rain. From the video we learn that “the heat of summer dead zones occupy as much as 40% of the main stream of the Chesapeake Bay. This is not just a bay problem it's a worldwide problem! All across the planet dead zones have been doubling in size every decade. There's one in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Massachusetts.” Having a dead zone is as dead as the face of the moon .There is absolutely no oxygen in these dead zones and nothing can live that requires oxygen...Crabs can't make it oysters can't make it... Fish that get in the dead zone will die and if they can't get out of the dead zone they will
Poisoned Waters Essay
10/27/14
There are many issues and concerns in Chesapeake Bay Estuary. Issues with Agriculture, air pollution and water pollution. In the video someone mentioned that the unfortunate reality is people get sick from water every day and we there is information suggesting that problem is getting worst today than it was 10 years ago and this problem is a result of a number of different contaminants being in the water that ultimately can make people sick. Within the bay there are many environmental declines. Also from the video we know that in this day and age were at a point at which this system called the Chesapeake bay maybe on the verge of seizing to function in its most basic capacity. Providing a place …show more content…
Like they believed that the chicken farms were a large form for pollution. They believe the chicken farms are polluting the bay, because of the chicken manure. Phosphorus runs off the farms and into the estuary and bay, where it enriches algae. Most of the pollution in the bay is from agricultural. Perdue and Tyson own chickens and fee but not the waste. Factoring faming growth caused more water pollution. Agricultural is responsible was 60% of our water. A lot of chicken farms produce more than the annual human waste. Upon doing some additional research I found that Perdue, poultry farm was sued for polluting Chesapeake Bay in March 2010. The suit was filed by the Assategue Coastal Trust; They claim that the water that flowed off a farm that was near Berlin,Md carries very high levels of bacteria and pollutants were blamed for the Chesapeake’s “dead zones.” The reason the environmentalists believe that the farm was polluting the bay was because they think that the owners of the farm was storing their chicken manure in a large outdoor pile made up of manure near ditches. Those ditches are most likely the reason why the bay got polluted because when it rains there is most likely run off with the rain. From the video we learn that “the heat of summer dead zones occupy as much as 40% of the main stream of the Chesapeake Bay. This is not just a bay problem it's a worldwide problem! All across the planet dead zones have been doubling in size every decade. There's one in the Gulf of Mexico the size of Massachusetts.” Having a dead zone is as dead as the face of the moon .There is absolutely no oxygen in these dead zones and nothing can live that requires oxygen...Crabs can't make it oysters can't make it... Fish that get in the dead zone will die and if they can't get out of the dead zone they will