SUNBURY – It’s us and only us who can help keep the water in the Chesapeake Bay clean and preserved, that’s the message of Harry Campbell, Pennsylvania Executive Director of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
He joined WKOK’s On The Mark, “So what we would need to do is more things on the land, like reducing the amount of storm water runoff coming off of our urban streets, or improving our urban infrastructure, or actually helping not only reduce the runoff that’s coming off a lot of ag fields and things of that nature. Keeping the soil and the nutrients on the land instead of in the water.”
Campbell says an even bigger priority in defending the land is defending our trees, “Those riparian forested buffers are a primary goal, and most cost-effective practice that we can employ in Pennsylvania to address pollution, non-point source or otherwise, that is coming off the landscape and getting into our rivers and streams.”
You can hear more about the ‘state of the bay’ and the work of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation at WKOK.com.
