Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay has not been a roaring success primarily because of run-off pollution aka non-point pollution.
>>> Restoration of the Chesapeake Bay has not been a roaring success primarily because of run-off pollution aka non-point pollution. <<<<<
Probably. But if I recall a lot of that has been blamed in recent years on the effulents from chicken farming operations (i.e., Purdue) and other ag waste.
I doubt that the rain runoff from suburban Richmond driveways causes even one one-hundred-billionth of the problems in the Chesapeake. That idea by the Richmond T-D editors is actually preposterous (but in keeping with the MySpace thinking of the current generation of “objective journalists”).
Besides, Richmond VA has only a very miniscule watershed to the Bay (which is 50 miles distant), and it’s really only to the very bottom-most couple miles. In fact really only into the Atlantic Ocean itself.
Blaming Richmond driveways for pollution of the Bay, is absolutely identical to blaming car exhaust in Virginia for infant respiratory illness in Kathmandu.