I know a lot of information was removed from on-line access after 9/11. Maps, diagrams, descriptions, including, I assume, the location of the Aberdeen weapons base, which is actually a very sensitive place, militarily.
A good navigation map of the Chesapeake Bay area would be about all one needed for monitoring discharge of effluents, and then you'd have to be able to collect and test water samples from a small boat. That's the way that is done. Copies of internal monitoring and tests could be achieved via FOIA - assuming that the composition of the effluent isn't classified. But the source you cite says that the citizens wanted information on tracking the pollution sources - it's almost definitely a point source, wouldn't you think? And you can't really expect a map of the discharge point.
At any rate, we're speaking at the level of broad generalities, which conveys almost no useful information. I am a splitter, not a lumper. Excessive lumping makes me itchy.
That's why I asked about specific information you were deprived of, if any. |
