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CBS Baltimore: Md.’s Smaller Coastal Bays Now Focus Of Pollution Reduction

OCEAN CITY, Md. (WJZ)—Next to the Chesapeake, Maryland’s smaller coastal bays haven’t received as much attention when it comes to pollution. Now that’s over.

Alex DeMetrick reports the state is promising federal regulators change is on the way.

Clean water on Ocean City’s beach routinely gets some of the highest marks in the country. But the bay’s behind town and Assateague Island are different.

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