quarterly news from the Center for Watershed Protection

Spring 2013 • Issue 50

Center Opens New Office in Suburban Philadelphia

While our headquarters in Ellicott City, Maryland will always function as the central “hub” for our work, the Center continues to expand our geographic reach by adding new office locations around the region. In addition to our office in CharlottesvilleVirginia, we have staff located in Leesburg and Richmond, Virginia and in Ithaca, New York. We recently added a new location in suburban Philadelphia, as Julie Schneider made a big move from Maryland to the home of cheesesteaks, hoagies and soft pretzels. Read more...

Linking Local Watershed Plans to the Chesapeake Bay TMDL in Maryland

The Chesapeake Bay TMDL – the largest ever developed by EPA, encompassing a 64,000-square-mile watershed – identifies the necessary pollution reductions from major sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment across the District of Columbia and large sections of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia. The TMDL sets pollution limits necessary to meet water quality standards in the Bay and its tidal rivers. Read more...

Guidance for Developing an Off-Site Stormwater Compliance Program in West Virginia

Over the past several years, the State of West Virginia has gone from having few stormwater management requirements to adopting an innovative performance standard of managing the first one inch of rainfall on-site for new and redevelopment projects. The standard was established through the issuance of the West Virginia MS4 General Permit in 2009. As you might imagine, such a change requires guidance and training for permittees to help them with implementing the new standard. The Center for Watershed Protection recently developed a Stormwater Management and Design Guidance Manual for the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) as the first step to address this need for guidance. Read more...