things like--and so you save fish lives and that sort of thing. But then after a while they
decided that dilution was not a solution.
Q ..
Yes, we talked about that one before.
A ..
So we really didn't do a lot of work in water quality outside of the reservoirs. What do
you do to control these people that are dumping a pollutant into the river? That's really
primarily an EPA responsibility.
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Q.
We were talking yesterday about wetlands. What about the Chesapeake, did you ever get
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involved with the Chesapeake, those issues?
A ..
Well, we had a Chesapeake Bay Model, hydraulic model, that was built. I don't know,
you might have been familiar with that. Maybe you haven't been over there. Were you
ever over to that?
Q ..
I never was, but I certainly know about it.
A
Well, that was a big expense. They did try to redo nature in a small building, in a
relatively small building, and put the Chesapeake Bay in a little building and try to
determine what happened when pollutants went in one area and how would they
other parts of the bay. They got a lot of good information, but still it was at a scale where
you couldn't do the kind of things you really needed to do in order to do experiments
because you couldn't actually reproduce nature in that small of a scale. So it's hard to
really know for sure what is happening.
They had a hard time maintaining the gauge controls, sediment and things like that, a little
bit means a lot if the gauge isn't perfectly the same all the time, why then the data isn't
worth much. They had some problems like that with it. But there were quite a few
experiments done there, and they finally gave up on it.
But, well, the Baltimore District has been involved in activities in the Chesapeake Bay for
a long time, working with the states and other Federal agencies trying to do things that
would help preserve the bay and to keep water pollution out of there. But it's kind of a
losing battle, I guess.
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