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Around 70% of forests and woods have been cleared for agriculture and developement in the D.C. Baltimore area.
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Coal Industries have just began to ramp up production and polluted smoke is going into the air and surrounding rivers.
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Large drop in oyster population greatly affects the Bay and laws are made to attempt to help the issue.
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Baltimore makes sewer and water treatment plants in an attempt to clean the water before going back into the Bay.
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This treaty creates rules and regulations to help limit the number of birds killed in order to stop birds becoming extinct or endangered.
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These are becoming drained to be used for more room for developement and waste.
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A conferece recommends the Chesapeake Bay should be known as a single body of water not multiple bodies of water.
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Fertilizers are commonly used on lawns and are beginning to pollute the Chesapeake Bay.
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Fishing boats are now able to go farther and farther so their is now less fish in their local waters.
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This disease kills oysters and is found in the Chesapeake Bay.
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Now people are draining and filling different wetlands for development and farming.
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Another disease which kills oysters is spotted in the Chesapeake Bay.
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The CleanAIr Act was an effort to lower air pollution with certain rules and regulations.
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Cars are now the transportation of choice and are very common but they create polluted runoff and harmful gasses.
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This group was formed to raise money and support to help save the Bay.
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Now approximately 90% of the forests remain because of clearing for agriculture and developement.
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This implements laws and regulations on what enters the Chesapeake Bay to help the Bay become restored.
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This further limits what can be done to these species and the land or water which they live on to further sustain their stay on earth.
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Maryland bans use of certain detergents containing phosphate so less polluted runoff goes into the Bay.
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This sets goals to lower the amount of nitrogen and phosphorus entering the Bay by 40% by 2000.
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This sets laws and regulations to lessen the amount of nutrients entering the Bay for Virginia.
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This act sets up a fund to prevent pollution from nitrogen in the Bay.
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This is a list of 100 goals to help stop pollution and restore the Bay while getting the public involved.
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The EPA launches manditory tests of the Chesapeake Bay water quality.
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This was signed by the Chesapeake Executive Council to conserve 695,000 acres of forests in the Bay Watershed.