{"id":17904,"date":"2018-08-24T15:24:53","date_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17904"},"modified":"2018-08-24T15:25:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-24T15:25:08","slug":"chester-county-conservation-district-holds-chesapeake-bay-boat-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/?p=17904","title":{"rendered":"Chester County Conservation District Holds Chesapeake Bay Boat Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17905\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17905\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-17905\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ChesterBay-300x226.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ChesterBay-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/ChesterBay.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-17905\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo provided by Chester County Conservation District.<\/p><\/div>\r\n\r\n<p><em>Submitted by Paige LaDuca, Chesapeake Bay Resource Conservationist, Chester County Conservation District<\/em><\/p>\r\n<p>On August 15th, Chester County Conservation District staff and local farmers had the opportunity to attend an educational tour given by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. We departed from the Baltimore Aquarium and discussed the effects that rivers and tributaries have on the Bay before continuing our journey to test water turbidity (clearness), dredge the bottom of the Harbor for sediment, and view the city\u2019s aquatic trash wheels and skimmers.<\/p>\r\n<table style=\"width: 80.7838%; border-collapse: collapse;\" border=\"0\">\r\n<tbody>\r\n<tr>\r\n<td style=\"width: 12.9979%;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-10296\" src=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"85\" height=\"93\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2-275x300.jpg 275w, https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/epa_logo-2.jpg 336w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 85px) 100vw, 85px\" \/><\/td>\r\n<td style=\"width: 67.9093%;\"><em>Financial and other support for this project is provided by the Pennsylvania Association of Conservation Districts, Inc. through a grant from the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection under Section 319 of the Clean Water Act, administered by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.<\/em><\/td>\r\n<\/tr>\r\n<\/tbody>\r\n<\/table>\r\n<p><em>Click <a href=\"https:\/\/pacd.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Chesapeake-Bay-Boat-Tour-Chester.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a> to read the entire article.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted by Paige LaDuca, Chesapeake Bay Resource Conservationist, Chester County Conservation District On August 15th, Chester County Conservation District staff and local farmers had the opportunity to attend an educational tour given by the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. We departed from the Baltimore Aquarium and discussed the effects that rivers and tributaries have on the Bay [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-conservation-district-project-spotlight","category-mini-grant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17904"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17904\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pacd.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}