CHESAPEAKE BAY The ORCA Kilroys™ were removed in May 2011 due to lack of funds and a lack of support in maintenance cost. Federal and State agencies lack the funds to support our research and implementation of our technology. As a result ORCA depends on donations to support our work. The Bay is literally choking on nutrient pollution from manure produced by factory farms. Three changes to farming practices will achieve at least a 70% reduction in nutrient runoff and yet years after solutions have been suggested none of the Bay states (PA, MD, DE, VA) have enacted a set of policies to end the discharge of nutrients into the Bay (at a proposed cost savings to farmers). Until policy makers and regulatory agencies have the type of conclusive and reliable water quality data that ORCA’s Kilroy™ is designed to provide, appropriate actions cannot be taken to remedy the situation—despite the promise of a dramatic improvement in water quality, a relative ease of implementation and the attention of conservation-minded legislators!
Latest Technology System Deployed in the Choptank River Ft. Pierce, Florida - May 17, 2010 | The Ocean Research and Conservation Association (ORCA) announced today that it has deployed a water quality monitoring system called Kilroy to determine watershed flow patterns and physical water characteristics from Island Creek into the Choptank River of Chesapeake Bay. The Kilroy system is compiling data for water flow speeds, flow direction, temperature, wave height and water depth.
Real-Time Pollution Monitors to Aid Chesapeake Bay The Ocean Research and Conservation Association is using new technology in Island Creek and the Choptank River to gather data on water flow that will help show where runoff of sediment and nutrients is most likely to be a problem. That technology also has the potential to identify, in real time, the source of pollution -- possibly down to the farm, development or animal feedlot. Read Article
ORCA IS DEDICATED TO THE PROTECTION & RESTORATION OF AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS &
THE SPECIES THEY SUSTAIN THROUGH THE DEVELOPMENT OF INNOVATIVE TECHNOLOGIES
& SCIENCE BASED CONSERVATION ACTION.
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"ORCA has a clear understanding of the challenges they need to tackle now, as well as a well thought out plan for applying the technology of Kilroy into meaningful conservation efforts." -Alexandra Cousteau
Global Water Advocate
DID YOU KNOW?
Eighty percent of all pollution in seas and oceans comes from land-based activities. Three-quarters of the world's mega-cities are by the sea.
