In a world of competing policy priorities, there is one policy objective that seems to generate more agreement than any other — we must protect the Chesapeake Bay. To do so requires good science, and recently we acquired some.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the Maryland Department of the Environment partnered to conduct the Lower Susquehanna River Watershed Assessment. Since 2011, the team has endeavored to evaluate and estimate the quantities of sediment and associated nutrients flowing downstream to the hydroelectric dams on the Susquehanna River.
