Eastern Upper Middle Chesapeake Bay Water Quality

[TimW451]

ShoreRivers River Report Card 2022. Covers Sassafras, Choptank, Chester, and Miles, Wye, & Eastern Bay

https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5983720d59cc68fa41f034db/t/645d2f21b4788f290b3f83a3/1683828515324/2022+Report+Cards_forWEB.pdf

 

[EastonRob]

Thanks for posting. I'm up the Tred Avon River. Looks like that area didn't do so well

The water does, in my unscientific observation, look better this year. But that just may have been the dry, cool May and June.

 

[1BadTundra]

We should resurrect this thread... With the Key Bridge removal, and the digging of the new temporary channel, how much lithium and chromium will be disturbed from years of Bethlehem steel dumping? What will that do to the water quality?
Rope in all the rain we've had and back river's lack of ability to contain their shit (literally), and this could be a bad season on the bay.

 

[EastonRob]

It's been a lousy spring, weather wise. Hot, cold, dry, rain, tons of rain. We've had everything except consistently nice spring weather.

I'm hoping you're overly pessimistic on the bay water conditions. I guess we'll see. Nothing we can really do about it I guess.

 

[steveinmd]

Back River Restoration Committee, Inc. - Water Quality

They take samples of back river to test for poo. I think the last round of test was 4/24.

 

[1BadTundra]

It's been a lousy spring, weather wise. Hot, cold, dry, rain, tons of rain. We've had everything except consistently nice spring weather.

I'm hoping you're overly pessimistic on the bay water conditions. I guess we'll see. Nothing we can really do about it I guess.

Me too brother...

 

[Mr. Boh]

So to the folks outside of Baltimore, you might not have heard local news celebrating the Swim in the Harbor - The Harbor Splash

Explained on a basic level, the website reminds that after rain events water quality can be worse, but Baltimore Harbor itself is safe ~90% of days in the summer, which should give anyone a good feeling when swimming in the bay in general.
I agree with @1BadTundra that this all is more of a bacterial look, rather than a heavy metals assessment

Throwing this all out there for the group .

 

[1BadTundra]

So to the folks outside of Baltimore, you might not have heard local news celebrating the Swim in the Harbor - The Harbor Splash

Explained on a basic level, the website reminds that after rain events water quality can be worse, but Baltimore Harbor itself is safe ~90% of days in the summer, which should give anyone a good feeling when swimming in the bay in general.
I agree with @1BadTundra that this all is more of a bacterial look, rather than a heavy metals assessment

Throwing this all out there for the group .

Fu@k swimming in that harbor... IDC what "they" say... IYKYK