Please see below (after the transcript and show notes) for links to news and upcoming events.
TRANSCRIPT
From the Cumberland Gap to the Atlantic Ocean, this is
Virginia Water Radio for the week of June 18, 2012.
This week, we focus on the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum
Daily Load, or TMDL, clean-up plan.
Established in December 2010 by the U.S. EPA, the Bay TMDL seeks to
reduce the nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment that flow into the Bay and cause a
range of water-quality and habitat problems.
The Bay TMDL requires states to submit Watershed Implementation Plans,
or WIPs. The so-called “Phase II WIP”
focuses on what localities will do
to help meet statewide goals. After
Virginia’s submission of its Phase II WIP on March 30, 2012, the Commonwealth
held a series of public meetings on the document. The following five-minute excerpt is from a
presentation at the May 30 meeting in Covington, by the Virginia Department of
Conservation and Recreation’s James Davis-Martin, describing what happens next in the Bay TMDL process. Please note that the word “model” refers the EPA’s computer
program used to predict how land use actions affect pollution reaching the Bay,
and “federal backstops” refers to
potential actions by EPA if states don’t meet their Bay TMDL goals.
Davis-Martin Excerpt (4:34).
For other water sounds and music, and for more Virginia
water information, visit our Web site at virginiawaterradio.org,
or call us at (540) 231-5463. From the
Virginia Water Resources Research Center in Blacksburg, I’m Alan Raflo,
thanking you for listening, and wishing you health, wisdom, and good water.
SHOW NOTES
Acknowledgments and Sources: This episode’s comments by James Davis-Martin
of the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR) were recorded
by Virginia Water Radio in Covington, Va., on May 30, 2012, and used with
permission of the speaker. The comments
were excerpted from Mr. Martin’s “Next Steps” presentation during the May 30
meeting (full comments were about 14 minutes).
A copy of Mr. Martins’ slide presentation at the DCR’s Bay TMDL Phase II
WIP public meetings is available at the DCR’s Chesapeake Bay TMDL Web
site, http://www.dcr.virginia.gov/vabaytmdl/. The U.S. EPA’s Chesapeake Bay TDML Web site
is http://www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl/.
Recent Virginia Water
News
For
news relevant to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Virginia Water Central News Grouper,
available online at http://vawatercentralnewsgrouper.wordpress.com/.
Water Meetings and
Other Events
For
events related to Virginia's water resources, please visit the Quick Guide to Virginia Water–related
Conferences, Workshops, and Other Events, online at http://virginiawaterevents.wordpress.com/. The site includes a list of Virginia
government policy and regulatory meetings occurring in the coming week.
