THE ISSUE: It’s Friday, the day we take a few moments to highlight the good news in Lancaster County and the surrounding region. Some of these items are welcome developments
Long before she was studying active fault lines in the western U.S. or examining soil erosion in Lancaster County streams, Dorothy Merritts learned to love science when she was a
On a chilly morning in mid-December, Dorothy Merritts stood near the edge of a small cliff in rural Manor Township — a near-vertical wall of silty dirt towering more than
Ten years after experimental sediment removal and stream restoration removed 22,000 cubic yards of material rich in nitrogen and phosphorus from the area, Big Spring Run can serve as an
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Killing the Chesapeake
How Amish farming practices, old mill dams harm the Susquehanna & Chesapeake and how to fix it
Sediment and nutrients have flowed from farms and piled up behind dams since Colonial times. That’s a huge threat now for the Susquehanna and Chesapeake.
Mike Argento, York Daily Record
Published
4:45 am UTC Feb. 3, 2021
Sediment and nutrients have flowed from farms and piled up behind dams since Colonial times. That’s a huge threat now for the Susquehanna and Chesapeake.
Mike Argento, York Daily Record
Published
4:45 am UTC Feb. 3, 2021
This USA Today Network special report explores solutions to deep threats that flow through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland as the Susquehanna River feeds the Chesapeake Bay with life and death.