I smell Hype
This pond stratification should only exist for several hundred ft above the former location of the dam - the area below should be primal pristine making it very obvious.
This pond stratification should only exist for several hundred ft above the former location of the dam - the area below should be primal pristine making it very obvious.
After dams were built — as many as 8,000 in Pennsylvania — water accumulated in millponds, and the sediment it carried settled to the bottom. When waterpower fell out of favor in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the dams deteriorated until they failed or were removed.Freed to flow more swiftly, streams began incising channels through the beds of silt. The fine material eroded rapidly, sending tons of sediment — much of it carrying agricultural chemicals like nitrogen and phosphorous — downstream to the Susquehanna River and, ultimately, Chesapeake Bay.
With nitrogen level up, Chesapeake Bay in for a bad summer
I beg to differ. With all the goo goos clamoring for restoration of everything willy nilly, costs be damned, when they don't know what it was originally like, and don't understand the effects of their efforts, I liked the story because it takes a different perspective.