Showing posts with label Chesapeake Bay TMDL. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Chesapeake Bay TMDL. Show all posts
Thursday, January 29, 2015

Only Rain Should Go Down the Storm Drains

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regulates the discharges into the “waters of the United States,” the rivers, streams, estuary and b...
Thursday, October 23, 2014

Measuring BMP's Effectiveness

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On Tuesday, the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Resource Conservation Service ( NRCS ) ann...
Monday, June 30, 2014

Farmers Appeal TMDL Decision – Right to Determine Land Use Belongs to the States

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It is an old story now that the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal waters have been impaired by the release of excess nitrogen, phosphorus and sed...
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Monday, December 16, 2013

Conservation Districts Change their Position

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At the just recently ended annual meeting in Williamsburg, VA, the Virginia Association of Soil and Water Conservation Districts (VASWCD) p...
Thursday, December 5, 2013

The Rural Crescent an Extraordinary Valuable Resource

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The Rural Crescent may have started with different intentions; but today the Rural Crescent is about water, groundwater and watershed preser...
Monday, January 28, 2013

Toxic Chemicals in Chesapeake Bay -Expanding the Pollution Diet

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from EPA report The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Chesapeake Bay Program just released a report that outlines the extent and ...
Monday, September 3, 2012

Update on Endocrine Disruption in Water Supplies

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From USGS paper cited below Earlier this month Vicki Blazer of the U.S. Geological Survey published a new paper, “ Indicators of Repr...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Blue Plaines From the Past to the Future

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AECOM Picture The District of Columbia's sewage system, one of the oldest in the United States, began its story around 1810, when ...
Thursday, July 19, 2012

Less Rain Means a Cleaner Bay

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Rainfall has been below normal. In the Washington Metropolitan area Virginia, Maryland and the District of Columbia are dependent on the...
Thursday, June 7, 2012

Sharing Our Water in the Potomac Watershed

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The May 1st Potomac Basin Drought Monitor indicated that most (96.8%) of the Potomac River Basin was abnormally dry (D0). Stream flows m...
Monday, May 28, 2012

Maryland Gets an A from the EPA-But it Costs $15 Billion

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I decided to take a look at the Maryland Watershed Implementation Plan Phase II, WIP, that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EP...
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