The Chesapeake Bay earned a C+ on the annual report card that calculates improvements or losses in key indicators of health and conditions in the estuary and surrounding areas. This is the highest the Bay has ever scored since the record-keeping began in 2006.
At the announcement in Woodbridge on Tuesday, Virginia leaders said the score reflects the impact continuous clean up efforts have in the Bay, however slow the progress may be.
“We are taking this as an opportunity to acknowledge that what we are doing is working, and that we have momentum moving forward,” Virginia’s Secretary of Natural and Historic Resources David Bulova said.
Of Virginia’s watershed regions, the lower James and lower Eastern Shore are the only areas whose quality ratings decreased…