Talk:Chesapeake Bay

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File:Sciences humaines.svg This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 August 2020 and 3 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Evanleach33.

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Increased Discussion of Waste Water Treatment Plants

I have made changes to the pollution section, adding a new subsection on the waste water treatments plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Does anyone feel that this is not significant enough to include? According to my research, this seems to be a major source of pollutants flowing into the Bay. This seemed to be a slightly lacking area of the article. NQNDKH882 (talk) 17:40, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

More text could be added on this topic, but there needs to be a distinction between plant design, operation & maintenance, and the sewage collection systems. All the treatment plants in the region now meet or exceed the federal design standard of Secondary treatment, and several plants exceed the standard (e.g. Blue Plains plant in DC) with the inclusion of nutrient removal. The remaining significant problems in the region related to sewage are maintenance problems, specifically at the Back River plant, and CSOs and SSOs, principally in Baltimore and DC. Moreau1 (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply
Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate you further educating me on this topic and making further changes to the page. I have updated the specific page for Back River using information from sources I have found on my own as well as ones already used in this page. NQNDKH882 (talk) 03:30, 29 April 2025 (UTC)Reply