Chesapeake Bay Foundation Says Changes Needed in Cleanup Effort.

Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News,  August, 2003  

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By Dennis O'Brien, The Baltimore Sun Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News

Aug. 22--WASHINGTON--The head of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation said yesterday that the management system for cleaning up the bay has failed and needs to be replaced with a new agency given the unprecedented authority to raise revenue, enforce land-use policies and take responsibility for the bay's restoration.

In a stinging assessment of bay cleanup efforts, William C. Baker, president and chief executive officer of the foundation, said that too much runoff is flowing into the bay from farms, ...

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