Chesapeake Bay Pollution EPA

zones, where dissolved oxygen levels are too low to sustain marine life The Chesapeake Bay is North America's largest estuary and the world's third largest. Chesapeake Bay is approximately 200 miles long and runs north-south from the mouth of the Susquehanna River to the Atlantic Ocean. The Chesapeake Bay watershed (the area of land that drains into the Bay) is 64000 square miles and has 11600 miles of tidal shoreline, including tidal wetlands and islands. The watershed encompasses parts ...

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YouTube | July 5, 2009

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