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State officials brief commissioners on Chesapeake Bay TMDL, call for local watershed plans and milestone reporting
Summary
Maryland Department of the Environment officials described the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load (TMDL) and the state—s watershed implementation plan (WIP) process, urging county teams to prepare 2012—6 milestones, tracking systems, and local strategies that account for agriculture, wastewater, stormwater and septic systems.
Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) officials told the Saint Mary—s County Board of County Commissioners that the Chesapeake Bay total maximum daily load (TMDL) process will require local watershed implementation plans (WIPs), interim milestones and tracking systems to document progress toward nutrient and sediment reductions.
Dr. Richard Eskin, director of technical and regulatory services for MDE, and Quentin Forrest, chief of chemical and biological monitoring, briefed the board on a federal-state process in which the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) set nutrient and sediment caps for the Bay and each state must provide reasonable assurance that nonpoint-source reductions will be achieved. MDE said the WIP provides the reasonable assurance by describing…
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