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Homeowners
averagejoe22
Musselman HS
3/20/2012
The Homeowner association is proud to say we do that
will are helping to clean up the bay
water shed by, watch what we do such as watch what we
throw away in the garbage. To
watch what we throw away we can recycle and organize we
throw away. We can clean our
sewage every now and then. We can also change our cars
such as fix any leaks such as oil
leaks and gas leaks. Watch where we park our cars so
when it rains that any chemicals
form the car don't watch off into the soil and have that
wash down into the a stream and
hurt the bay and other watershed. This does seem hard,
but then if we don't commit then
what's the point of trying to fix the Chesapeake Bay.
Since this seems a little out of proportion, it can
help. Every little thing that we do helps a
bit, in one way or another. Anyone can help, big or
small, old or young, alien or human, the
more help the faster the cause can be solve. One way we
can help prevent the water shed
from getting contaminated is by cleaning up after out
pets after they "use the bathroom."
It's so simple after they finish just take them back you
go outside and clean it up. A lot of
people have pets that use the bathroom out side and some
people just leave it out there.
This may not seem like a big deal, but when it rains,
the rain washes the waste from the
animal and puts it into the ground and then the goes to
a water shed which then affects the
water shed.
Sewage can also be harmful because it has harmful to
water and turn all life into mutants
or they will die from pollution due to the chemicals in
the sewage. People just throw
anything away without thinking about how it may hurt the
life in the Chesapeake Bay.
In past circumstances we have done little to prevent the
pollution problem, such as drive a
hybrid that still uses gas or using plug-in cars that
use fossil fuels. This is just the start to
something big for homeowners. If you have time to go
and watch some TV, you have time
to go and clean up the waste and organize the trash,
recycle materials, It can help the
water shed and help preserve the life and probably make
you feel good about yourself for
helping the environment.
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JACT - homeowner - EHHS
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3/27/2012
What are some of the problems caused by sewage?
From:
Wilderness Tours - recreation - MslmnHS
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3/29/2012
we dont need any more housing developments
From:
The Quick-Build Land Developers - developer - MdS
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3/29/2012
Although I agree with you on many things that you have
discussed, I do disagree with
you statement, "We can clean our sewage every now and
then." Shouldn't we always
clean our sewage as best as we can so that it will have
a less harsh impact on our
environment?
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Domestic Lives - homeowner - MdS
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3/29/2012
Hybrid cars are not necessarily a small way to help,
after a while they can make a big
difference.
From:
K&T Group - recreation - MslmnHS
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4/3/2012
Great points. Loved reading your POV. (:
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YnoK - Other - EHHS
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4/11/2012
Mutants? That seems pretty falacious. Please give a
reasonable definition of
"mutants" that would make it more clear as to what you
are referring to. We're having
a hard time following it.
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Homeowners
Helium Cupcakes
Musselman HS
3/20/2012
Most homeowners use fertilizers and other chemicals in
their yards and gardens that
pollute the bay. The litter and glass shards that have
been put into the bay have cause so
much danger and pollution, not only for the flora and
fauna that reside in the bay, but to
the homeowners as well. Homeowners could do their part
in helping to keep the bay clean
by reducing the amount of chemicals they use in their
yard, or by not using any at all. They
could also help clean as much of the litter and other
garbage out of the bay as they can.
They could place trashcans in the areas near the bay,
and make sure they are emptied daily
so that theres always room for them to hold the trash.
Making sure that oil, gasoline, and
other harmful chemicals is a very big part of trying to
keep the bay clean, not only for the
creatures that inhabit the bay, but also for the
homeowners near the bay. Basically,
anything that homwowners can do to keep from polluting
the bay further should be done.
Homeowners have had a very big part in polluting the
bay, but they could also have a very
big part in cleaning it up. Children swim in the bay, so
glass shards and litter make it very
dangerous. Homeowners should check theirs sewage tanks
once a year, because the bay
could be polluting them, and the other well water
sources that you drink. This can run
under the ground to the lakes, ponds, and other water
areas. If other waters get affectes
from the runoff then wildlife can be affected. When the
homeowner goes to buy or kill the
mear of the infected animals, then the person could be
infected.
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Jay A. Squared - homeowner - MdS
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3/27/2012
Great suggestions on how we can make a change without
the government getting
involved! You seemed to cover every point that affects
how and why we need to clean
out the bay.
From:
Saving Nemo... and others! - CBP_Fed - MdS
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3/29/2012
I like how you included some things that homeowners can
do now, but do you suggest
any long term goals for the future? The things that you
include will improve the Bay's
water quality but it will not solve the solution.
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Domestic Lives - homeowner - MdS
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3/29/2012
I think it is a good idea to have trash cans readily
available but where that trash goes
next is very important. Trash companies who dump in land
fills near the Bay or directly
into the Bay are just going to cause more of a problem.
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Without a paddle - homeowner - MslmnHS
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4/2/2012
Good job on giving very thoughtful incite to helping
cleaning up the bay!
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Farmers of WV - farmer - MslmnHS
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4/5/2012
This is very well thought out and you make some great
points. Eliminating yard
chemicals and placing trash cans that are to be emptied
daily would greatly help, but I,
unfortunately, feel that this would only work short
term. What would you do for more
long term effects?
From:
octtoes - Waterman - EHHS
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4/11/2012
Are there other people polluting the bays other than
homeowners?
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Homeowners
kat
Musselman HS
3/21/2012
Homeowners have a very big effect on the Chesapeake Bay
ecosystem. For one, they have
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a lot of trash, pets, cars, and chimneys. The pets use
the bathroom in the yard and it can
wash into the bay when it rains. Cars can possibly have
oil leaks and that can get into the
water stream also. Everybody has trash. When people
throw trash in the road or into the
yard it can get washed into the stream. Our septic tanks
can have leaks and get washed
into the stream.
Pollutants can cause a variety of problems for living
things including humans that live in or
interact with our streams. The trash that gets washed
into the stream can hurt the fish
that live there. Animals can't swallow trash; well we
cant either so why should we expect
them to live in trash. When we have oil spills the
animals cant get clean. When they clean
themselves they can swallow the oil and it will kill
them. Also if the fish are sick then when
we go fishing and catch the fish and eat them that will
get us sick. Also our water comes
from the bay so if the water is unhealthy then it could
get us sick.
We should try to stop polluting, but it is hard because
we are so use to living the way we
do. Most of us can't live without our pets. If we don't
have our cars it will take longer to
get places. If we stopped doing all the things that are
polluting our bay then that would be
half the things we own.
According to Thinkprogress.org "A giant underwater
"dead zone" in the Chesapeake Bay is
growing at an alarming rate because of unusually high
nutrient pollution levels this year,
according to Virginia and Maryland officials. They said
the expanding area of oxygen-
starved water is on track to become the bay's largest
ever. That's bad news for biologists
who monitor the bay and horrible news for oysters and
fish. Dead zones suck out oxygen
from deep waters and kill any marine life that can't get
out of the way."
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Homeowners
Dudley Squatters
Musselman HS
3/26/2012
Our projected goal is to improve the well being of the
Chesapeake Bay.POV:
The motivation behind our effort to keep the water clean
lies solely with the good of the
environment. We, as humans want to be protected with
clean water and oxygen well, so do
the organisms living in the Chesapeake Bay.
You have to have a speaker that is passionate about what
they're doing to get others
involved with what you want them to do. You want it to
be an exciting experience as well as
a rewarding one. We will use strategies such as working
on peoples emotions using ethos,
pathos, and logic. Nothing says "get a move on things"
like facts and statistics.
Yes it does work. Even though the people willing to work
for little to no pay are few and
far in between, they're there you have to be willing to
put out the effort to get those
people together.
We do not want this to turn into a profitable
organization. We simply want to do a good
dead for that exact reason; it's the right thing to do.
Wal-Mart and other large
corporations would most likely be willing to give
donations to support our cause.
We believe they would be more than willing to back us
up. At the end of the day, we all
have the same objective in mind. We want to clean up the
pollution and get people on board
to keep it that way.
We can't exactly answer those"what if" questions. You
have to weigh out the consequences
to your actions but can't be afraid to do the necessary
things to get things done. There
very well may be obstacles that arise but we will have
to take them as they come.
Hopefully we can keep everyone happy and satisfied
during the process.
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Fallin up =D - local_gov - MslmnHS
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4/2/2012
You need to focus on the topic more (The effort to clean
the Chesapeake Bay)instead
of the speaker that is in the group. The issue at hand
are excess nutrients and
sediment.
From:
Hicks - farmer - EHHS
Ask
4/11/2012
How are some way that you will get volunteers involved
in cleaning up the streams?
We dont think many people will devote there time for
this
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Homeowners
clueless people
East Hardy HS
3/26/2012
Our group represents homeowners. We are very important
to preventing and treating
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pollution. Though to most it would seem that we have
little to no impact on the
environment, we do. Lawn treatments, fertilizers, and
other chemicals leak into rivers and
streams causing big problems. Homeowners aren't all bad
though, some of us build ponds
to capture sediment when we build our homes. Many who
live beside steams plant trees
and grass to filter water from pet horses or livestock.
The bay's problems affect us in many ways. One would be
that the pollution from the Bay
flows undiluted into waterways. Nitrogen and Phosphorus
are essential for the growth of
all living organisms in the Chesapeake Bay, but too much
nitrogen and phosphorus degrade
the Bay's water quality. Another problem is that
Nitrogen pollution causes algae blooms
that consume oxygen. The blooms lower dissolved oxygen
levels so severely that fish and
shellfish die. There are lots of dead zones, where
hypoxic waters are so depleted of
oxygen they cannot support life and therefore they kill
a massive amount of fish.
Solutions to the pollution problem will take everyone's
help. Some things people can do are
planting grass in areas that are not being used at the
time. Sediment ponds on farms and
by highways are a great tool to prevent sediment from
entering rivers and streams.
Buffers are also a great solution to keep pollution,
erosion, and nutrients from entering
streams. All of these solutions affect us in a positive
way. I hope that others make use of
all these solutions so every child can have a chance to
play in a stream.
Some of the solutions we would prefer for the watershed
problems would be to limit
chemical and pesticide use, landscaping, and a few other
household practices. Whenever
there is rain or melted snow runs over the land, it
picks up pollutants and sediment and
deposits them into rivers, lakes, wetlands, and coastal
waters. We could also limit usage of
cleaning supplies because they contain a lot of
chemicals that pollute waters excessively.
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clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
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4/11/2012
I read your POV and learned new stuff. I do have a
question though. What exactly is a
buffer and how much would it cost to put them in? Is
there anything else we could
use besides a buffer to prevent chemicals from getting
into the Bay?
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Homeowners
Jay A. Squared
Mount de Sales
3/26/2012
REVISED:
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
directly states that “The leading threat to the health
of the Chesapeake Bay is excess nitrogen and phosphorus
pollution that destroys habitat and causes fish kills.
Top sources of these pollutants include agriculture,
sewage treatment plants, runoff from urban and suburban
areas, and air pollution from automobiles, factories,
and power plants. Other threats to the Bay's health
include sprawl, toxic pollution, and poor fishery
management.” This clearly states that we, the homeowners
with the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, contribute to the
pollution in the bay. Both our runoff and the air
pollution from our automobiles have led to increase in
excessive nitrogen and phosphorus.
As Homeowners within the
Chesapeake Bay Watershed, we recognize that we both
influence the bay and are influenced by the bay. The
problems of the bay affect us in many ways. However,
what affects us the most are the costs of cleaning out
the bay. Many groups have proposed ideas on how to fix
the problems, and many of these ideas require an
increase in our taxes. We agree with the fact that the
bay needs a lot of work, but there has to be a solution
that does not require us to pay. If the government could
guarantee us that there would not be increased taxes we
would be more than willing to help this issue. Possible
solutions that don't require these taxes include:
enforcing a restriction on fertilizers that homeowners
may use, limiting some water usage, and recycling.
Our influences on the bay can
be harmful and we understand this. Our trash and waste
make way to the bay eventually, and we put pollutants
into the air on a daily basis. Although we contribute to
the problem, we feel that we should not be punished, but
rather encouraged to make a change. If the government
offered us benefits for altering our day to day lives,
there would be more of an incentive to make a change.
For example, if there were tax-deductible opportunities
for the homeowners within the watershed, more people
would help the cause. If recycling was not mandatory but
rather promoted and we were given rewards for our
efforts, more of us would attempt to recycle more rather
than just putting recyclables in the trash.
We understand that all of our
concerns may not be addressed, but we ask that our
suggestions are considered. Thank you for your time,
patience, and understanding.
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Green thumbs - farmer - MdS
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3/27/2012
How would you be able to do all these things with out
spending money? Enforcing
regulations requires more workers who need to be payed.
Who would have the
responsibility to pay them, if not the tax payers?
Response
Jay A. Squared - homeowner - MdS
To:
Green thumbs - farmer - MdS
3/28/2012
We listed possible ways that we could help the bay
without having to raise taxes:
"Possible solutions that don't require these taxes
include: enforcing a restriction
on fertilizers that homeowners may use, limiting some
water usage, and
recycling." It may be unrealistic to not raise taxes at
all but we can help to think
of more cost effective ways to help the enviroment.
From:
Dudley Squatters - homeowner - MslmnHS
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3/28/2012
I do not believe you would get the vote from people on
this matter if it came down to
tax payer's responsibility. Have you considered looking
to enviromental sources for
donations?
Response
Jay A. Squared - homeowner - MdS
To:
Dudley Squatters - homeowner - MslmnHS
3/29/2012
We are not saying it is the tax payer's responsibilty,
but rather just the opposite.
We stated that we DO NOT WANT an increase in taxes. The
public should vote
towards this because we would be saving them money.
Getting donations from
environmental sources could definitley be benneficial,
it is just a matter of
finding ones interested in helping the cause.
From:
Saving Nemo... and others! - CBP_Fed - MdS
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3/29/2012
Your ideas about how to clean the Bay and homeowner's
responsbilities are truly
wonderful. But if you made recycle a mandatory process,
then you would not have to
worry about putting time or effort into promoting it and
the amount of pollutants in
the Bay would be reduced.
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Jay A. Squared - homeowner - MdS
To:
Saving Nemo... and others! - CBP_Fed - MdS
4/2/2012
Making recycling mandatory is a good suggestion, but
many people would not
agree with this regulation. We feel that putting
mandatory recyling into effect
will not only be time consuming but also be hard to
regulate. How can you be sure
that people are
always recycling?
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clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
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4/11/2012
Limiting water usage and fertilizer usage might help,
but how are you going to regulate
that? The Bay's streams run through a number of states,
so how are you going to
enforce any legislation restricting the use of chemicals
and fertilizers?
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Homeowners
CG & GC
East Hardy HS
3/26/2012
As homeowners we are important because the water will
affect our facilties, health, and
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our personal hygiene. The bay's problems affect us by we
get our water supply from the
bays. With the water being polluted our drinking water
will be impure. We will be affected
by possisble solutions by our water could possibly be
contamunated by chemicals. The
chemicals would probably not harm at first but later on.
If the water would be
contamunated to a certain degree we would then possibaly
need to invest in a water filter.
Different soulutions would affect us differently then
others. We would have to cut down
on our water supply. The type of solutions we would
prefer are clean out the bays without
chemicals.
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Fisherwomen - Waterman - EHHS
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3/27/2012
What if there is no way or not enough money to clean out
your local bays, do you have
a second alternative?
Response
CG & GC - homeowner - EHHS
To:
Fisherwomen - Waterman - EHHS
4/11/2012
Fisherwomen,
If there was not enough money to clean out our local
bays we would go to our
state and commmunity clubs. Also, if there isn't enough
money to pay for this
plan then, how are we suppose to afford the other
alternatives? There are other
alternatives but this is the best that we could think of
at the moment.
From:
Jay A. Squared - homeowner - MdS
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3/27/2012
CG & GC,
Great insight on how the bay affects us, but don't
forget that there are many ways
that we affect it as well. Also, not only does the bay's
water quality affect drinking
water...but other aspects of our lives as well. As for
your solutions, cleaning out the
bay would most likely not incorporate adding chemicals
but rather removing them.
Sincerely,
Jay A. Squared
From:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
Ask
4/11/2012
Who drinks out of the bay? Locally, most people have
wells or use a city water line.
You need to think of solutions to the problem at hand,
not solutions to a problem that
doesn't exist. Even if chemicals were our main problem,
water filters DO NOT remove
chemicals they remove sediment, limestone, and iron.
Response
CG & GC - homeowner - EHHS
To:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
4/16/2012
Many people do get their drinking water from the Bay.
Some people are to far
away from the city water line and their wells have to
many chemicals. Water
filters DO remove organic chemicals that could be
harmful. But, being that you
said that water filters could not remove these
chemicals, what other solutions
would you have for them?
The MODERATOR asks
CG & GC: "What is the salinity of the Bay?
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Homeowners
JACT
East Hardy HS
3/26/2012
Homeowners affect the area around them. In effect
homeowners may participate in
POV:
certain tasks that may benefit the enviroment around
them. Thus leading to homeowners
having an important impact on the enviroment. Homeowners
tend to use different products
and various other items around their home that promotes
the growth of certain
enviromental factors.
The Chesapeake Bay can have a very direct impact on
homeowners. The Chesapeake Bay
contributes to the water supply of the homeowners.
Homeowners have to deal with the
payment of a water bill. Homeowners also use Chesapeake
Bay water everyday, whether it
is showering or drinking. In fact some homeowners choose
to get a water filter on account
of the quality of water.
The Chesapeake Bay experiences problems with pollution,
thus resulting in homeowners
buying water filters. The Chesapeake Bay also has
situation of pesticides affecting the
organisms living in it such as fish, which may cause
homeowners to have a limited food
selection. The Chesapeake Bay also deals with corporate
wastes, leading to homeowners
having the worry of contaminated water.
Homeowners are able to help solve the various problems
with the Chesapeake Bay, by
contributing to programs promoting clean up. Homeowners
could possibly form groups to
help clean up the garbage in the bay. Homeowners could
also learn what is in the pesticides
that are used, and try to avoid using them. Homeowners
could possible form a group trying
to have water tested and have coporate companies remove
wastes somewhere else.
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Dudley Squatters - homeowner - MslmnHS
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3/27/2012
Jact makes key points in their POV. I appreciate that
not only problems are discussed
but solutions are made clear. I think a budget should be
set up (for the water filter,
etc.) and these things could make a difference.
Response
JACT - homeowner - EHHS
To:
Dudley Squatters - homeowner - MslmnHS
3/28/2012
I apologize about the lack of clarity on our projected
goals. We want to ask Wal-
mart, specifically the Lawn and Garden department for
donations of any size. We
then want to plant things around our area of the Mill
Creek Watershed. We want
to increase the amount of oxygen in the air. Hopefully
we get more people on
board and our projects expand to getting the Chesapeake
Bay cleaned up.
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clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
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4/11/2012
All your suggestions are good, but if you try to limit
or discontinue the use of
pesticides there are going to be more insects than their
natural predators can
consume. Did you mean use legislation to limit the use
of pesticides or just encouraging
homeowners to not use them?
Response
JACT - homeowner - EHHS
To:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
4/16/2012
Sorry for the unclarity on the subject of pesticides. We
meant to say limit the
use of pesticides, not completely stop all use.
From:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
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4/16/2012
I read your POV and it was really good, but I just have
one question. In the last
paragraph you said that we would remove wastes somewhere
else. Well where else
would we move them so they dont effect another water
source??
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Homeowners
Domestic Lives
Mount de Sales
3/27/2012
I represent the homeowners, both directly on the bay and
in the watershed. We know first
hand the problems the bay is facing at this time and we
are willing to take responsibility to
help in the clean-up effort. After years of destruction,
the Chesapeake Bay has hit an all
time low due to pollution. The polluted waterway affects
every person in the watershed
because most of our water is from the bay and, if you
live waterfront, it is your backyard.
The Chesapeake Bay affects about six states and over 17
million people, so what is done
about the pollution is on a lot of people's minds.
New polices are emerging to help promote smarter ways
to clean the bay. In 1984 the
Critical Area Program was established. According to the
Maryland Department of Natural
Resources, the Critical Area Programs "is a land use and
resource protection program
established by law to improve water quality and protect
wildlife habitat in Maryland's tidal
shoreline areas", this law requires any land that is
within 1,000ft of the bay to use codes,
policies and ordinances to approve any building on the
land or home renovations. A newer
act has been introduced into Senate, which is called the
Save the Chesapeake Bay
Homeowner Act of 2011. This act is focused on giving
homeowners on the bay responsibility
for the water quality and the amount of run-off. Anne
Arundel County is proposing a new
campaign called RainScaping, which encourages
communities to install rain gardens, rain
barrels and many other types of pollution cleaners.
These new ideas are supposed to act as
the natural flow of water that has been eradicated
because of building. Most policies
today are aimed towards homeowners who live directly on
the bay.
Run-off from the cities and factories are not the only
source of the problem, we take
responsibilities for our own actions. Home fertilizers
used on gardens are affecting the
water and bay environment. We propose using BayScaping
to improve the problem.
BayScaping is landscaping method used along the bay that
encourages the use of local
plants that are used to the soils of the bay and do not
need as much fertilizer. Bayscaping
also suggests the use of nutrient absorbing plants,
which will uptake all the excess
nutrients from pollution.
Owning land on the bay means you inherit a
responsibility to help refurbish the area back to
its original beauty that has significantly diminished
over the past years. This will affect all
the homeowners in the water shed, as well. These
programs plan to clean the bay, which
brings cleaner and healthier water to those in the
watershed who use it.
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Homeowners
Without a paddle
Musselman HS
3/28/2012
REVISED: As homeowners, we have noticed that
our yards have become discolored due to the high levels
of poluted run-off. We are willing to build riparian
buffers around or develpoment to help absorb some of the
polutants. The only problem is that our homeowners
association is not allowing us to plant anything off of
our plots. We need to build better buffers around our
property and also be more conserative with our water use
and use of fertilizers. Also we encourage people to
clean up thier pet's/livestock's waste.
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From:
MSS - Waterman - EHHS
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4/11/2012
Without a paddle,
How would your precautions effect the Bay?
From:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
Ask
4/16/2012
What is a riparian buffer? What does it do?
Response
Without a paddle - homeowner - MslmnHS
To:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
4/18/2012
A riparian buffer is a section of plants, normally trees
and shrubs that help to
absorb toxins, and also slow down the flow of run off
from roadways.
Our efforts would help to slowly lower the amount of
pollution in the Chesapeake
Bay
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Homeowners
3 musketeers
Musselman HS
3/29/2012
Our group's name is dinowars. Our group decided to be
homeowners. We decided to be
homeowners because we thought that it would suit us
well.
As homeowners, we can use less fertilizer on our yards
and gardens. We can also help by
cleaning up pet waste from our own animals. We also pay
taxes which give the government
the money to clean up the water systems and the city.
Our taxes pay for programs such
as watershed grants that benefit the Chesapeake Bay. As
a homeowner, we are concerned
about the bay because we use it for recreation, such as:
fishing, swimming , skiing, wave
boarding, scuba diving, and crabbing.
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clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
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4/11/2012
But what are your sloutions to the bay's problem?
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Homeowners
house loner
Musselman HS
4/3/2012
Most homeowners use household pesticides and fertilizers
but the improper use of them is
a contribution to the problem of excess nutrient runoff
in the Bay. The chemicals can find
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their way into drinking water wells and pollute nearby
lakes and streams. Children are
particularly vulnerable to pesticides that are stored or
used without proper safety
precautions. Often people are not a wear of the effects
of pesticides and fertilizers.
To stop the pollution homeowners can use the right
amount of fertilizers, and don't waste
water which can cause the soil to move into the lakes
and rivers.
The watering of lawns and gardens wastes large amounts
of water. Gasoline-powered
mowers, weed cutters, leaf blowers and other devices
make noise and pollute the air. While
it may seem that homeowner's contribution to pollution
is minor, the effect of chemicals,
soil loss, and wasted water from hundreds or thousands
of homes can make a significant
impact.
Join the Thoughtful Discussion
Thoughtful
Discussion
From:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
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4/11/2012
What are some of the affects that pesticides have on
children?
From:
clueless people - homeowner - EHHS
Ask
4/11/2012
What if you need to use these pestisides and cleaning
products for something
important? Would you just limit the use of them or are
there more eco-friendly
products around somewhere?
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