Chesapeake Bay Watershed and Environmental Issues

Minneapolis, Minnesota (PRWEB)
August 31, 2010

The American Filtration and Separations Society will be holding its Fall Theme Conference at the Turf Valley Hotel in Ellicott City, MD, October 4-7, 2010. The topics of this conference are Water Filtration and Filter Testing. The conference will be held in conjunction with the Fall Meeting of the Water Quality Association (WQA).

“A Taste of the Chesapeake a Bountiful Harvest and its Challenges” is the theme of the luncheon given by Gerald J. Lynch, PE, President of Sigma Design Company, on Wednesday October 6, 2010.

Mr. Lynch was thinking about the kinds of issues that might be of interest to our AFS members and felt that since our conference is being held in the Chesapeake Bay watershed region and the environmental issues regarding the protection of the Chesapeake Bay watershed are a global issue, in the news every day, that this would make a great main topic. His presentation will address many related issues and how new product development, filtration and separation testing have been used to help in this battle:

a. Oyster and crab industry

b. Current aquaculture in the bay

• Challenges and threats to the bay

a. Lower phytoplankton

b. Increase in nitrates

vs. Contaminated ballast water

D. Industrial pollution

e. Agricultural pollution

F. Residential pollution

• Efforts to improve water quality and reduce / eliminate these threats

a. Ballast Water Legislation and Shipboard Water Treatment Test Protocols

b. Local universities and their work in this fight

vs. Community organizations

• New products and systems developed to aid these efforts
• Quality and sustainability protocols.

He will show how this is a global problem:

• Maryland, Chesapeake Bay (crabs and oysters)
• New Jersey, Barnegat Bay (clams and oysters)
• New York, Long Island Sound (clams), Peconic Bay (scallops), Montauk (clam oysters), Great South Bay (clams)
• Louisiana, Gulf of Mexico (oysters)
• France, Bassin d’Arcachon (oysters)
• Ireland, Kenmare Bay (oysters and mussels)

Mr. Lynch will talk a little about each zone and present data and photos of the clams, oysters and the separation equipment they use.

Mr. Lynch will discuss invasive species, ballast water treatment and show how new onboard systems are being used. This will help the public to make the link between FILTRATION – Ballast water and Aquaculture.

Mr. Lynch will also present work in Arcachon Bay France on post harvest water quality methods.

We’ll review and compare these efforts to work done in Chesapeake Bay at the University of Maryland’s Horn Point Lab and Rutgers University in New Jersey.

While he expects it to be somewhat entertaining, the real goal is to demonstrate to the public that AFS, IFTS, U of MD, Rutgers, Sigma Design and many more are all “global partners” who are working hard to address and resolve these important global issues. .

As a point of reference:

The AFS Mid Atlantic Chapter sits right in the middle of these global problems and their solutions: Long Island Sound, Peconic Bay, Garners Bay, Montauk NY, Great South Bay, Raritan Bay NJ, Barnegat Bay NJ, Chesapeake Bay MD, for ne quote them. a few…

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