There’s legislation in the Maryland General Assembly that would urge Congress to do something about the state of the Conowingo Dam.
The dam is blamed for sediment flowing into the bay which contains harmful nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen when the dam floods.
The Maryland Senate resolution wants the Congress to get the Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a study on the state of pollution at the dam.
Last November a $1.4 million study found that cutting pollution into the bay would fall mostly only the shoulders of agricultural communities.
During a committee hearing yesterday both agriculture representatives and environmentalists agreed that the owner of the dam, Exelon Power, should be held accountable for the dam’s impact on the Chesapeake Bay.
