Chesapeake Bay Foundation: Stormwater a growing threat

By TIM PRUDENTE tprudente@capgaznews.com www.twitter.com/TimPrudente1 | Updated 7 hours ago

One inch of rainfall on one acre of pavement causes enough polluted runoff to fill most backyard swimming pools.

About 10,000 acres are paved each year in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

These figures were in a Chesapeake Bay Foundation report released Monday that calls runoff pollution a “growing threat” to the nation’s largest estuary.

The foundation is calling on state lawmakers to defend stormwater fees intended to pay for projects to lessen this pollution.

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