BAU students set to clean up the Bay in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
CHESAPEAKE BAY IN NEED OF CLEANUP
Contact :202-379-5470
Toxic Contaminants impair 82% of the Chesapeake Bay: Bay Atlantic students set to clean up the Bay in partnership with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation
CHESAPEAKE BAY, MD – November 5, 2021 – Bay Atlantic students set to clean up and help to reduce toxins in the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay has seen a significant decline in plant and animal life, and the water quality has been diminishing drastically in the last few years. Toxic contaminants impair 82% of the Bay, 345 million pounds of nitrogen, 23 million pounds of phosphorus, 5 million tons of sediment, and 256 tons of trash enter the Bay each year (chesapeakebay.net), which comes from pollution and run-off by humans. Due to pollution, a dead zone has appeared, an area with no oxygen, so plant and animal life cannot survive. The average size of the dead zone in 2020 was one cubic mile (chesapeakebay.net). The Chesapeake Bay needs help; Bay Atlantic University (BAU) students set to clean up the Bay in partnership with Ashley Peris, an educational coordinator with the Chesapeake Bay Restoration Foundation. On November 5, 2021, from 10 a.m. till 12 p.m. on Friday, a field trip is set for BAU students to go to the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Center, 600 Discovery Ln, Grasonville, MD 21638, for a tour and to clean up the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay clean-up program was created by BAU students Angie Rios-Figueroa, Mehmet Kildiroglu, Dolguun Yaruu-Aldar, Luis Lazio, and Pamir Akin. If other BAU students are interested in improving the Bay, contact Mehmet Kildiroglu at 202-379-5470 or email from [email protected].
About The Chesapeake Bay Foundation
The Chesapeake Bay Foundation brings (CBF) is a nonprofit organization devoted to the restoration and protection of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. The Chesapeake Foundation also creates together various state, federal, academic and limited watershed organizations to build up and adopted procedures that support Chesapeake Bay restoration.
