Abstract:The Conowingo, Safe Harbor, and Holtwood dams located on the Lower Susquehanna River have historically acted as a system of sediment and nutrient pollution traps, retaining and thereby preventing large amounts of ecologically harmful sediment from entering the Upper Chesapeake Bay. However, extreme storm events, termed as scouring events, cause substantial amounts of the trapped sediment to be swept downriver into the Upper Chesapeake Bay, blanketing benthic organisms, affecting subaquatic vegetation growth, a… Show more
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