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Water Quality Goal Implementation Team

Water Quality Goal Implementation Team. Katherine Antos Coordinator. Our Mission.

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Water Quality Goal Implementation Team

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  1. Water Quality Goal Implementation Team Katherine Antos Coordinator

  2. Our Mission “The charge of the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (WQGIT) is to evaluate, focus, and accelerate the implementation of practices, policies, programs that will restore water quality in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries to conditions thatsupport living resources and protect human health.  The Team recognizes that actions necessary to improve water quality in the Bay will also benefit non-tidal waters.”

  3. Water Quality Goal Implementation Team Chair: Larry Merrill, EPA; Vice-Chair: Russ Perkinson, VA DCR Coordinator: Katherine Antos, EPA Wastewater Treatment Workgroup Chair: Tanya Spano, MWCOG Coordinator: Ning Zhou, VA Tech Staff: Victoria Kilbert, CRC Watershed Technical Workgroup Chair, Coordinator: Chris Brosch, UMD Staff: Mike Barnes, CRC Milestones Workgroup Chair, Coordinator: Suzanne Trevena, EPA Staff: Rachel Streusand, CRC Agriculture Workgroup Chair: Frank Coale, UMD Coordinator: Mark Dubin, UMD Staff: Victoria Kilbert, CRC Trading and Offsets Workgroup Chair: Ann Roda, PA DEP Coordinator: Pat Gleason, EPA Staff: Victoria Kilbert, CRC Stormwater Workgroup Chair: Norm Goulet, NoVA Reg. Comm. Coordinator: Lucinda Power, EPA Staff: Rachel Streusand, CRC Forestry Workgroup Chair: Rebecca Hanmer, Retired Coordinator: Sally Claggett, USFS Staff: Rachel Streusand, CRC

  4. Past Accomplishments • Recommendations to support the development of the Chesapeake Bay TMDL • Reviewed the expectations for Watershed Implementation Plans and 2-year milestones • Completed interim assessment of 2009 – 2011 milestones for 2011 Executive Council meeting • Finalized protocol for approving how the Chesapeake Bay Program models simulate pollution reductions associated with nutrient and sediment controls

  5. Current and Upcoming Priorities • Final assessment of 2009-2011 Milestones • Recommendations for TMDL/WIP refinements and implementation • BMP Reviews underway: • Agricultural: Nutrient Management and Cover Crops • Urban: Nutrient Management, Retrofits, Performance Standards and Stream Restoration • Additional reviews based on Workgroup priorities • Implementing Partnership’s Response to National Research Council’s independent evaluation of CBP

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