The Washington Post reported today on the potential environmental threats to the Chesapeake Bay posed by Hurricane Sandy. “More than a hundred million tons of dirty sediment mixed with tree limbs and junk float behind the Conowingo Dam, and Hurricane Sandy, a giant faucet nicknamed “Frankenstorm,” could send it pouring into the Chesapeake Bay,” says the Post.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/sandy-poses-environmental-threat-to-chesapeake-bay/2012/10/27/64bb8630-1fb2-11e2-9cd5-b55c38388962_story.html