New plans are under way to save a great bay from pollutants
The Chesapeake has always attracted superlatives. Captain John Smith, who first entered the bay in 1608, was so taken with the "fruitful and delightsome" place that he declared, "Heaven and earth never agreed better to frame a place for man's habitation." H.L. Mencken, Baltimore's celebrated sage, was so impressed by the bay's rich marine life that he labeled it "an immense protein factory."
Both descriptions are accurate. Stretching nearly 200 miles from its northern end at the Susquehanna flats to its southern end...
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