Conowingo Dam Spill Gates Opened Leading To Worry About Contaminating Chesapeake Bay

CONOWINGO, Md. (WJZ) — The amount of rain Maryland has seen this week means a lot of swollen rivers due to runoff.
Among them is the Susquehanna River.
Even if all our recent rain lets up, the effects from all that water are far from over.
To ease pressure on Conowingo Dam, 13 spill gates were opened and with all that unleashed power comes genuine worry.According to Rob Newberry, the chairman of the Delmarva Fisheries Association, it’s about the “catastrophic impact this is goi