Environmental groups say cutting funding as the bay has started to recover would lead to worsening conditions.
First Light, a boat belonging to the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, heads toward the U.S. 50 bridge on the Severn River in Arnold, Md. By Marissa J. Lang Marissa J. Lang Local reporter focused on D.C. area news Email Bio Follow March 15 at 2:31 PM He knows where the sea grass likes to grow, where the ospreys return to roost and the oysters have begun to form reefs — like back in the good old days before everything, it seemed, began to wither and die.
It is the third time the president has proposed a dramatic slash in funding for the Chesapeake Bay as part of EPA budget cuts. Last year, he recommended a similar 90 percent chop. In 2017, he suggested eliminating federal contributions to the Chesapeake restoration effort altogether. “It wouldn’t happen fast, but once it started to degrade again, it would be bloody hell to turn back around,” Williams said.
More than two-thirds of the $73 million the program receives from the EPA goes toward supporting the efforts of state and local governments and other partners. The money is used for restoring and conserving healthy habitats, supporting sustainable fisheries and reigning in pollution and waste runoff, according to Chesapeake Promise, an effort to publicly track the program’s progress and finances.
Rep. Andy Harris, Maryland’s only Republican member of Congress, told the Baltimore Sun he supports current funding levels for the Chesapeake Bay Program and would work with the House Appropriations Committee to shift money back into it. A contractor puts rocks in the water to make a barricade in front of a home on the Severn River to construct a living shoreline in front of an eroded cliff to protect it and the home from damage. A few years ago, efforts to rebuild oyster habitats led a group of researchers, engineers, divers and watermen to install a concrete barge full of shell and baby oysters on the floor of the Severn River to see if they would stay and build a reef.
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