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Chesapeake Bay was the April 2011 US Collaboration of the Month.

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 17 August 2020 and 3 December 2020. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): Evanleach33.

Above undated message substituted from Template:Dashboard.wikiedu.org assignment by PrimeBOT (talk) 17:20, 16 January 2022 (UTC)Reply

Wiki Education assignment: Multimedia Writing and Rhetoric

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This article was the subject of a Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment, between 7 January 2025 and 8 May 2025. Further details are available on the course page. Student editor(s): NQNDKH882 (article contribs). Peer reviewers: Cavanaugh1234, McGsham.

— Assignment last updated by NQNDKH882 (talk) 14:58, 25 February 2025 (UTC)Reply

Increased Discussion of Waste Water Treatment Plants

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I have made changes to the pollution section, adding a new subsection on the waste water treatments plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Does anyone feel that this is not significant enough to include? According to my research, this seems to be a major source of pollutants flowing into the Bay. This seemed to be a slightly lacking area of the article. NQNDKH882 (talk) 17:40, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

More text could be added on this topic, but there needs to be a distinction between plant design, operation & maintenance, and the sewage collection systems. All the treatment plants in the region now meet or exceed the federal design standard of Secondary treatment, and several plants exceed the standard (e.g. Blue Plains plant in DC) with the inclusion of nutrient removal. The remaining significant problems in the region related to sewage are maintenance problems, specifically at the Back River plant, and CSOs and SSOs, principally in Baltimore and DC. Moreau1 (talk) 19:22, 3 March 2025 (UTC)Reply

Thank you for the feedback! I appreciate you further educating me on this topic and making further changes to the page. I have updated the specific page for Back River using information from sources I have found on my own as well as ones already used in this page. NQNDKH882 (talk) 03:30, 29 April 2025 (UTC)Reply

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Talk:Chesapeake Bay

Wiki Education Foundation-supported course assignment

Wiki Education assignment: Multimedia Writing and Rhetoric

Increased Discussion of Waste Water Treatment Plants