Environmentalists concede that an ambitious multi state pledge to clean up the Chesapeake Bay by 2010 will fall short, because of the **$28 billion** cost and the necessary sewage treatment upgrades and other improvements will take longer than three years.

The Environmental Protection Agency said this month that efforts to restore the bay’s health need to be accelerated to meet the 2010 deadline., but experts told The Washington Post that acceleration would have to include widespread sacrifices from individuals and unprecedented government funding. And even then, it might not be enough.

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