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Clammers on the Lower Potomac
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Much has been accomplished in reducing nutrient pollution since
the 1987 Bay Agreement was signed. The Bay Program signatory jurisdictions
(DC, MD, PA, and VA) are at or close to the target load reductions
that were agreed to in 1992. However, the Bay's health has not recovered
sufficiently to remove the Bay from the EPA's list of impaired waters.
In the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement, the Bay Program partners agreed
to reevaluate what additional nutrient and sediment reductions will
be necessary to restore the Bay, and then the states will develop
new tributary strategies to accomplish those reductions. Determining
the new pollutant load targets is due to be completed by April 2003,
but we already have a rough idea of how much lower those new targets
will be. Whatever the final target numbers, it will be a significant
challenge to meet them.
Thus on November 20th of 2002 in Leesburg, Virginia the ICPRB
helped organize a conference to bring together stakeholders from
all the states that share the Potomac to:
 Increase
awareness among the stakeholders of the water quality issues
driving the new nutrient and sediment load limits.
Increase
awareness of successful actions that have been taken to reduce
pollution loads.
Develop
ideas for common elements among the jurisdictions' individual
tributary strategies.
Forge
stakeholder alliances within sub-basins of the watershed to
work together on developing and
implementing common elements of the tributary strategies.
The Chesapeake Bay restoration began as a voluntary effort of
the District of Columbia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and
the federal government . The Bay has since been placed on the states'
impaired waters lists, which means that certain regulatory requirements
of the Clean Water Act now apply to this effort. Among those requirements
are that pollution sources in West Virginia may be obligated to
meet reduction targets even though West Virginia is not a signatory
to the original Bay Agreements. Consequently, since 2000 West Virginia
state agencies have participated in Bay Program deliberations about
new pollutant load targets and West Virginia stakeholders were invited
to participate in this conference.
Additional Information
For more information about the partners working to protect and
restore the Chesapeake Bay and their contact people, click
here. To view the presentations from the Shared Strategy Conference
and other supporting materials choose from the links below:
Allocating
Nutrient Loadings in the Chesapeake Bay to meet only the 30-day
Dissolved Oxygen Criteria
(2mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Robert Koroncai
Agency: US EPA Region 3 Chesapeake Bay Program
Phone: (215) 814-5730
email: koroncai.robert@epa.gov
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Large-scale Nitrogen
Removal at the Blue Plains WWTP Using Post-denitrification With
Methanol
(1mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Michael Marcotte, Chief Engineer
Agency: DC Water & Sewer Authority
Phone: (202) 787-2609
email: mmarcotte@dcwasa.com
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Coordinating
Cooperative and Regulatory Programs for the Potomac and Chesapeake
Bay
(1mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Tom Simpson
Agency: University of Maryland College of Agriculture and
Natural Resources
Phone: (301) 405-5696
email: ts82@umail.umd.edu
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A Local Perspective
on Bay Tributary Strategy Priorities for Urban Runoff Controls
(34 mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Cameron Wiegand, Chief, Division
of Watershed Management
Agency: Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection
Phone: (240) 777-7736
email: cameron.wiegand@co.mo.md.us
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Watershed Protection in
The Potomac River Basin, Pennsylvania
(11 mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Tolif Hunt, Sideling Hill Creek
Project Manager
Agency: Western PA Conservancy
Phone: (814) 784-3003
email: thunt@paconserve.org
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Addressing Growth in
Loudon County, Virginia
(3 mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Mark Herring
Agency: Loudon County Board of Supervisors
Phone: (703) 777-0204
email: mherring@loudoun.gov
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WV Potomac Headwaters
Land Treatment Water Quality Project
(17mb powerpoint presentation)
Conference Presenter: Ken Haid, Resource Conservationist
Agency: USDA/NRCS Potomac Headwaters District
Phone: (304) 538-2826
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