Agricultural Runoff Chesapeake Bay. Maryland department of the environment (2016, april 28) 53,000 acres of submerged aquatic vegetation mapped in. Polluted runoff from agricultural lands our waterkeepers are working to reduce agricultural pollution in the waterways of the chesapeake bay and coastal watersheds.
In fact, pennsylvania is responsible for fully 69 percent of the nitrogen reduction the u.s. Maryland and virginia need to step up efforts to address agricultural pollution, and “pennsylvania remains far. All of the rivers depicted on the map flow into the bay, so any agricultural runoff from that area will eventually reach the bay and contribute to eutrophication.