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Jordan Lake Water Quality Rules

Jordan Lake Water Quality Rules. Anna Barnes: Graduate Student Natural Resources NCSU James Blackwell: Graduate Student, Natural Resources NCSU Amy Dombrowski: Graduate Student, Natural Resources NCSU Brunell Guglemann : Graduate Student, Natural Resources NCSU

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Jordan Lake Water Quality Rules

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  1. Jordan Lake Water Quality Rules Anna Barnes: Graduate Student Natural Resources NCSU James Blackwell: Graduate Student, Natural Resources NCSU Amy Dombrowski: Graduate Student, Natural Resources NCSU BrunellGuglemann: Graduate Student, Natural Resources NCSU Alicia Raimondi: Graduate Student in, Natural Resources NCSU Daniel Riechers: Graduate Student Technical Communication NCSU

  2. Outline • Introduction • Jordan Lake background • Significance and Purpose • Jordan Lake Water Quality Rules • Policy Appraisal • Goals of the rules • Persistent Problems • Decision Process Analysis • Social Process Analysis • Correcting the Process • Alternative Solutions • Benefits for the Common Interest • Significance

  3. Introduction: Background • Upper Cape Fear River Basin • Nutrient Rich Reservoir • Water Quality • Eutrophic Waters • NSW classification • Who is affected?

  4. Introduction: Jordan Lake Watershed

  5. Introduction: Background • Durham, Chapel Hill, Cary, Burlington and Greensboro

  6. Introduction: Background • Significance • Water Quality • Increased economic and population growth have degrade the aquatic habitat • Residents • Poor water quality could threaten the use of the lake • Safe Drinking Water • Recreation • Policy • Largest collaborative effort with the public coordinated by Department of Water Quality (DWQ) • Adaptive Management approach

  7. Introduction: Background • Stakeholder Project of 2008 • Nutrient Strategy Management Plan • Storm water Rules • Existing Development • New Development • Offsetting Nutrient Off Loads • Riparian Buffer • Wastewater Discharge • Agriculture • Fertilizer Management • Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)

  8. Introduction: Common Interest Restoring and maintaining the quality of North Carolina’s surface waters. • Primary Benefits • Improving the overall aquatic environment • Improving conditions for recreation • Improved quality of potable water • Increased economic productivity • Secondary Benefits • Improvements to streams • Reduced sediment • Reduced Cost • Reduced Irrigation dependency in developed areas

  9. Prescription: The Jordan Lake Rules .0262 Purpose and Scope; .0263 Definitions; .0264 Agriculture; .0265 Stormwater Management for New Development; .0266 Stormwater Management for Existing Development; .0267 Protection of Existing Riparian Buffers; .0268 Mitigation for Riparian Buffers; .0269 Riparian Buffer Mitigation Fees to the NC Ecosystem Enhancement Program; .0270 Wastewater Discharge Requirements; .0271 Stormwater Requirements for State and Federal Entities; .0272 Fertilizer Management; .0273 Options for Offsetting Nutrient Loads; and .0311 Cape Fear River Basin.

  10. Policy: Goals • Restore and maintain nutrient related water quality standards within the lake • Protecting the lake for its “classified uses” • Maintain or enhance regulations currently implemented by local governments

  11. Policy: Persistent Problems • Decision Process • Analysis overview • Problems • Prescription • Implementation

  12. Policy: Persistent Problems Prescription Implementation • Contingencies • Insufficient Allocation • Cost • Original estimate was $905 million • Who pays what? • Sanctions • Timeline • Model • Nutrient Trading • Buffer Rules

  13. Policy: Persistent Problems • Social Process • Participants • Where all participants fairly represented? • Situations • In what arenas did the participants interact? • Strategies • What strategies did the participants use to achieve their goals?

  14. Policy: Persistent Problems Participants • Who do we want involved? • State Government • Upstream Communities • Downstream Communities • Environmental Groups • Developers, Local Business • Who was involved in the 2009 revised rules? • Developers • Most notably: Southern Durham Development • State Government • DENR, EMC, EPA • Upstream Governments • Most notably: Durham, Burlington, Greensboro

  15. Policy: Persistent Problems Situations Strategies • Largest problem in the Social Process • Public Comment Period • Where are the stakeholder meetings used in the 2008 rule creation? • That’s right MISSING • Upstream Government • Media • Lobbyists • Developers • Threaten litigation… never pursued • Lobbyists • State Legislature • Create legislation: citing economics as the driver

  16. Correcting the Problems: Strategy

  17. Current Trends • Nutrient loading into Jordan Lake • Away from goals • Lowering initial remediation costs for upstream local governments • Away from goal • Rapid development in watershed • Away from goal • Water rates continue to increase • Away from goal

  18. Correcting the Problems: Who

  19. Correcting the Problems: Why

  20. Conclusions

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