Late Tuesday morning, John Page Williams set out on a tour of some sights that no one in his boat really wanted to see: the blue-green waters of the Chesapeake Bay turned brown by storm water runoff and sewer overflows caused by downpours from Tropical Storm Lee.
"It was just chocolate," said Williams, a senior naturalist for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. During his three-hour tour, he encountered huge tree limbs, plastic foam, a yoga mat and what looked like "somebody's firewood from a wood pile." A sediment-laden brown streak covers nearly half of the the 200-mile-long bay. "It's a mess," Williams said.
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Associated Press 14 Sep, 2011
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