Be Very careful where you fish/crab

[Memory Maker]

http://www.baltimoresun.com/features...,5817762.story

........... as I posted before, I came across the Bay and Key Bridges last Sunday and the water was a cesspool reddish brown ...... some say Mahogany brown ........ probably caused by those 17 million gallons a day of raw sewage for several weeks ........... I would shower in peroxide If you are yakin in it .......... I suggest you might consider fishin in the upper bay above the Harbor or well below the BB for awhile ...........

It's TOTALLY sickening to see ithe beautiful green salt smelling water at the CBBT and come back to see the cesspool around here .........

Be careful guys ......... this water can and will make you sick .......... be especially careful of the crabs and where you catch them

[Southerly]

i try to check the county health dept for any current adivisories but usually hear them on my local radio channel. in fact i heard this morning on the radio of some unexplained fish kills in glen burnie area of AAco.

a fishkill is actually a series of events over several weeks; a cause, the actual fish kill, then they float, then they sink, the foam,...

i watched one play out on a small creek in the 90's. the health dept even posted warnings on trees along the beach but there was no shortage of powerboats pulling skiers and little kids around on tubes, etc through the foam trails everywhere.

the foam was apparently from dissolved proteins.

[chex]

[surfdog]

sunday the water in the severn looked great but yesterday afternoon it was mahogany brown
going to head south and east for my fish

[Memory Maker]

sunday the water in the severn looked great but yesterday afternoon it was mahogany brown
going to head south and east for my fish

Yeah ........ East is better ........ the bay currents come up the eastern shore and go out the western usually so the fresher water is generally on the estern side ......... per Lenny Rudow

[surfdog]

yeah romancoke for me on saturday

[archeryrob]

They are always quick to blame farmers for the bay. How could farming that has been diminishing on the western side of the bay from suburban growth affect the bay more? How much farming run off would be required to match 50 million gallons of raw sewage?

I read up on this before. There are over 460 municipal sewer systems that discharge into the bay. I see signs on Antietam creek out here once in a while where they slipped and discharged some from Hagerstown. It's under reported and imaging 460 places that can have Opps'es to slip into the bay to add nutrients.

Baltimore Sewage Leaks

Their words, not mine.

Heavy rains routinely trigger big sewage overflows in Baltimore, but there is growing evidence that chronic leaks from the region's aging, cracked sewer lines are a bigger threat to public health

Farm fertilizers do add to the problem, but are portrayed to Suburbanites as the only or biggest problem that would just solve everything. Most don't know how their own $hait and lawn fertilizer that runs off to the storm drain causes a problem. Farming practices had changed to where run off should be substantially reduced, but municipal sewers are getting worse in many cases due to the systems being 100 years old and money is not there to replace them.

Anyone ever notice in the city that the drains are called "Storm Sewers"? It is because the urban road run off goes to the same pipe as the Feces run off. When it rains really heavy the treatment plants can't handle it and the bay gets a fresh dosh of raw sewage. Only recently have the street run off and sewers been separated. If this was mandated to change it would make a major difference, but is more than a major expense and nothing any juridiction can bear, especially at this time in our poor economy.

People need to know all factors are a problem.

[Pinch]

BB East side is SUPER Clean right now.

[Memory Maker]

FYI

http://www.tidalfish.com/forums/show...angerous-water

[surfdog]

we had a guest speaker at last months PSG meeting that was a retired lab scientist for the state of MD doing tests on rock fish. 75% of rock have it brought on by env. stress sores dont have to be evident to be infected the liver will have white spots if its infected with no visible sores. if stuck by a fin sores could show up 3 weeks later in the affected area, " fisherman's hand" glove off and lip gripper a must. i think the guy scared a lot of guys at the meeting

[Memory Maker]

....... In 2011 alone in Maryland there were:

•2,100 reports of sewerage overflows
•94 overflows were of 1 million gallons or more


........... we need storm constipation ........

[jet]

the Bay's watershed stretches across 6 states and DC. it's to be expected that it's a toilet.