Dredge it and dump it on Annapolis. No one will notice the difference to Annapolis.

Had no idea. Amazing job guys! This is hugely important. Everyone who sees this vid needs to post it on Facebook.

Saving the Chesapeake Bay starts WAY farther north of the Conowingo Dam. Erosion runoff in counties in Pennsylvania north of the dam as well as north of the two other major dams on the Susquehanna River is where we need to put the blame and our efforts in making the change that needs to happen.

The Dam has been recently opened, virtually the whole bay is flooded with trash and sediment... We need to make the State fix this mess, permanently !!!

So why is it just the Conowingo Dam's problem? It's the entire Susquehanna....not just that wall at the end of it

Most of us who live in conowingo use it to get to and from work in Harford County. It has also powered our homes.

Thank you for this. Keep up the good work! I have a "save the Bay" license plate.......so I guess my money is in some off shore Bank account? I am furious.

Anyone that has ever driven over the dam (or any of the bridges) after a rainstorm can notice the pollution and silt immediately

7 years passed since this video, anything change??

The dam was also damaged by Agnes. The structural damage was repaired poorly. Another Agnes will destroy the dam even with lowering the pool before the storm but with the sediment you really cant lower the pool.

Totally off topic but at 4:10 the guy's voice suddenly jumped to one speaker only and scared the tar out of me.

Remarkably inaccurate information. Looking at the Conowingo Assessment on the Coalition's website, only 27% of the sediment load to the bay comes out of hte Susquehanna (about 1.5-2 million tons/year) That's about the same sediment load as the Potomac - without a big dam at its mouth. Sediment is absolutely a problem - and a core part of the cleanup effort for the Bay, but this vidoe is singularly focused on Susquehanna sediment to the exclusion of all else. It's telling that the desire to clean up the bay - as long as its about pointing the finger at Pennsylvania and Susquehanna sediment comes from a coalition of counties that don't want to implmeent stormwater fees, don't want to place sensible limits and mitigatin requirements on new development - especially waterfront development, and routinely give developers waivers on development in the Critical Areas within 1000 feet of hte Bay's shoreline. If you're only interested in sediment what's your position on the Potomac - point to virginia ans W. VA? This doesn't pass the smell test.

The dirty little secret is the Bay will never be the same as pre Conowingo no matter how much tax money/donations is spent. Modern society and chemicals that do not get removed at the sewage plants is huge too.

We should see what Larry Hogan can do, he has made a lot of great changes, this would be another thing to add to his resume.....

Assuming that dredging could begin tomorrow, and funding was available, where can you put 80 football stadiums full of muck? I'm going to assume it's not going to be considered, 'clean fill', rather it will likely be classified as hazardous material. Aside from filling in an old quarry or strip mine, how will the sediment be transported to it's final destination, rail cars? Obviously the closer a spoils disposal facility can be located to the dam, the better from a cost and logistics standpoint. However, where ever it is disposed of, one must be sure that it doesn't find it's way back into the river/bay? This is a much more complex issue than simply digging out the sediment. The environmental impact studies alone will likely take 20 years. Also, the act of dredging itself will stir up sediments and cause some to be washed through the dam into the bay.

Somebody needs to blow up the dam some night.

Why are none of the speakers in this video named? Giving us their titles is not enough. I want to research the people to determine credibility. No names, though. That makes me question the integrity of the information offered. (Not that I disagree there's an issue that needs to be addressed.)

Name one thing the government doesn't screw up. There is a better way. #Voluntaryism.

The water above the bay Bridge is largely fresh or brackish due to river inflow. To the best of my knowledge, oysters don't appreciate fresh water. Lots of disinformation surround these issues. It seems like everyone has a favorite villain, and it's usually the dam or the power company. But in truth, it's us, all of us that use the product they produce based on our demand! Electricity! We demand it! The power companies make it, we buy it! They do not however make trees, pesticides, park benches, shopping carts, barbie jeeps, tires, or anything else that comes bopping down the rivers that feed into the bay! These are societal problems that a great number of people are at some level responsible for. This crap would be visiting our bay with or without the dam in place. Why should one entity be held accountable for a problem that society at large has created?! We toss our trash out the car window because we are too lazy to dispose of it correctly, force a private company to clean it up, then cry fowl when that company charges more for the product we demand!!! Stupid really has no bounds!

dreads above the dam and dump it back into the fields where it come from whether the farmers like it or not

What about the rain tax we in Maryland now pay to our state government for the purpose of taking care of the bay. Didn't the EPA require all states that "watershed" into the bay collect taxes to help keep the bay clean and healthy. ?!?!?!?

Dredge it and rerurn it north.

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Its still gonna come down the river...you people act like the dam makes the silt

I wish the sediment, nitrogen, phosphorus, insecticides, herbicides etc problem was limited to the Conowingo Dam. Subscribe to the Bay Journal (it's free) and learn about the whole picture. Knowledge is power.