Articles Tagged with ''Chesapeake Bay''

Utility Challenges Maryland Water Quality Standard Over Dam

June 6, 2018

Exelon is challenging Maryland water-quality requirements, which are linked to a 50-year federal license renewal to continue Conowingo Dam operations on the Susquehanna River.

Rising Challenge

Hampton Roads Region Looks for a Way To Live With the Water

Bruce Buckley

August 10, 2017

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Hampton Roads in Virginia—seven communities and 11 federal facilities—is facing one of the worst combinations of erosion, subsidence and sea-level rise in the nation.

Cleaning Up Chesapeake Bay

Efforts to improve the estuary are making headway, but the road to recovery is long

Pam Hunter McFarland

March 23, 2016

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For years, Chesapeake Bay has been the subject of dire reports: dwindling fish, crab and oyster populations, loss of native underwater grasses, eroding shorelines, murky water and algae blooms caused by excessive levels of nitrogen and phosphorus.

Innovation Keeps Water Treatment Plants Online

Thomas F. Armistead

March 23, 2016

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A digester system cannot be shut down for more than a few hours without serious consequences.

Dominion Blvd's nine bridges require hundreds of precast girders

Creative Solutions Make Needed Chesapeake Bridge a Reality

City taps alternative financing for bridge megaproject

Bruce Buckley

December 18, 2015

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The city of Chesapeake, Va., has had to toil hard and manage creatively to get its long-planned Dominion Boulevard improvement project off the ground—literally and figuratively.