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More good news today. Dead zones are fast retreating!
Only trace is dead zone today was deep inside Luce Creek where we recorded 1.9 mg/L, just shy of the 2mg/L that marks the beginning of the low oxygen area know as a dead zone.
By contrast, at the mouth of Luce Creek we recorded 6.3 mg/L of oxygen.
That’s why our fishing couple had a great morning crabbing and fishing near the Traces Hollow oyster reef. Yeah!
A great day for oysters! Water Quality Tram Leader Emi records great oxygen and salinity levels for our bivalve pals on bottom of Severn River.
Emi tracks lots of oxygen, 5.44 mg/L and better at all of our oyster restoration reefs. Salinity 10.75 ppt and higher.
The little bumps on the sonar screen are the mounds of oyster spat-on-shell planted in by Operation Build-a-Reef in 2018 at the reef known as Weems Upper.
Here's the source of the Bear Branch mud flood that's pouring sediment pollution into the Severn River and silting in the marinas at Ben Oaks and Pointfield Landing.
Our on-the-scene reporters are tracking the source of the Mud Flood mess in Bear Branch. It's been traced upstream by neighbors to AACounty's controversial Shipley's Choice Dam Removal project. Locals report an area the size of 3 football fields of exposed dirt with no obvious stormwater controils in place.
The video, taken Aug. 24, is from Pixie Dr & West Benfield Rd.
Multiple complaints have been filed. No word yet from AACounty whether corrective actions have or will be taken.
Steuart Pittman could you please look into this?? It seems to be coming from upstream of this point at Pixie and W Benfield, ie Phase 2 where the Shipley’s Choice dam actually gets removed.
Wasn't that just built. No storm water management ponds
Here is video of water moving through the dam removal site from this afternoon. The County's contractor is working aggressively to stabilize the rest of the site.
How much did this project cost and the road was closed for seems like a year?
Outrageous. Thanks for your work on this.
Video, taken today (9/10) during the rain, demonstrating turbid water coming into the dam removal site from above the construction area. Stream erosion above Benfield Road is the primary driver of sedimentation into Bear Branch.
This is a common sight from Severnside Dr where Bear Branch empties into the Severn.
More stabilization.
Video of the area downstream of the dam removal from this afternoon. As you can see, the stream is in very bad condition in this area, as it is above Benfield Road.
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