<![CDATA[Grist - Comment Feed for Well ... A for Effort?]]> Grist Comment Feed en Comment #1 by Liara Covert http://www.grist.org/article/well-a-for-effort/ Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:46:33 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/well-a-for-effort/1 Unconfirmed rumours

Media will periodically reiterate how much has been done to clean up Chesapeake Bay. As it happens, I'm very familiar with the Washington, DC and Virginia areas. Why is it that the public rarely gets a birds-eye view into what is really happening and insight into the measurable progress made? Media says more about how problems are escalating to play into fear factor syndrome. How can a clean up project which has apparently been ongoing for 22 years be continually funded and seen as effective when destruction and deterioration are described as undermining the clean up? It would appear a complete overhaul of Chesapeake Bay "clean up projects" is overdue.

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Media will periodically reiterate how much has been done to clean up Chesapeake Bay. As it happens, I'm very familiar with the Washington, DC and Virginia areas. Why is it that the public rarely gets a birds-eye view into what is really happening and insight into the measurable progress made? Media says more about how problems are escalating to play into fear factor syndrome. How can a clean up project which has apparently been ongoing for 22 years be continually funded and seen as effective when destruction and deterioration are described as undermining the clean up? It would appear a complete overhaul of Chesapeake Bay "clean up projects" is overdue.

]]> Comment #2 by paintformoney http://www.grist.org/article/well-a-for-effort/ Sat, 21 Apr 2007 06:48:44 -0700 http://www.grist.org/article/well-a-for-effort/2 Chesapeake Bay

Of course the Bay is not responding as they had hoped.  How can it when corporations like Smithfield Foods is still allowed to build buildings and parking lots in the flood plain.  The run off from these structures goes into the Pagan River, which empties into the James which empties into the Bay.  It is a pity the Army Corp of Engineers did not stop this latest building, they could have.

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Of course the Bay is not responding as they had hoped.  How can it when corporations like Smithfield Foods is still allowed to build buildings and parking lots in the flood plain.  The run off from these structures goes into the Pagan River, which empties into the James which empties into the Bay.  It is a pity the Army Corp of Engineers did not stop this latest building, they could have.

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