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Chesapeake Bay TMDL and What It Means for You

Chesapeake Bay TMDL and What It Means for You. Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties June 2, 2010.

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Chesapeake Bay TMDL and What It Means for You

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  1. Chesapeake Bay TMDL and What It Means for You Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties June 2, 2010

  2. “For the Chesapeake Bay, 2010 may well go down as the year that everything changed” • Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal, January 2010

  3. EPA settles lawsuit with Chesapeake Bay Foundation Federal Leadership Committee releases Strategy to Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay Watershed May Could be the Month Everything Changed for the Watershed!

  4. The Chesapeake Bay TMDL And Central to Both:

  5. Nutrient Loads Delivered from the Watershed to the Bay 342 24.1 251 16.6 191 14.4 Source: Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Phase 5.3 (2010)

  6. Nutrient Loads Delivered from the Virginia to the Bay 11.3 91 66 56 7.1 6.6 Source: Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Phase 5.3 (2010)

  7. Plan details into draft WLAs & LAs TMDL and WIP Development Major basin jurisdiction loading targets EPA sends Expect- ations letter to PSC EPA sends Conse- quences letter to PSC Nov. - Dec. 2009 Develop Ph. I WIP Final TMDL Established Nov. 2009 – September 2010 Ph II WIP with local targets and controls December 2010 2-year milestones, reporting, modeling, monitoring No later than November 2011 2012 – 2025

  8. Phase I WIP Phase II WIP

  9. Distributing Stormwater among Point and Nonpoint Sources The Phase I WIPs need to inform EPA how to distribute nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loads Point Sources Nonpoint Sources WLAs LAs The Chesapeake Bay TMDL

  10. Allocating Nutrients and Sediment… Like Taking Candy from a Baby, Right?!?!

  11. Opportunities to Directly Participate • Call Virginia’s Watershed Implementation Plan points of contact (see next slide) • Help develop YOUR Watershed Implementation Plan • Join in the monthly Bay TMDL webinars • Next one: Monday,June 7, 10 a.m. • Get informed: www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl • Fall 2010: Bay TMDL public review/comment period • Public meetings/webinars • Contact your friendly EPA Bay TMDL colleagues (we don’t bite or even bark!)

  12. Watershed Implementation Plan Contacts • Virginia: Alan Pollock, DEQ and Russ Perkinson, DCR • Delaware: Jennifer Volk, DNREC • District of Columbia: Monir Chowdhury, DOE • Maryland: Rich Eskin and Tom Thornton, MDE • New York: Ron Entringer and Peter Freehafer, DEC • Pennsylvania: Pat Buckley, DEP • West Virginia: Teresa Koon, DEP Contact information--phone number, email address--is available at: www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl

  13. Questions? Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office Antos.Katherine@epa.gov (410) 295-1358 For More Information on the Bay TMDL:http://www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl/For More Information on Executive Order 13508:http://executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net/

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