From the Maryland State Highway Administration:
The Maryland Department of Transportation’s State Highway Administration (SHA) invites the public to provide comments on plans and methods to meet federally mandated requirements of the Federal Clean Water Act (CWA) and improve Chesapeake Bay water quality. Citizens are encouraged to read the draft plan and provide comments online. Click here for SHA’s draft Chesapeake Bay Restoration plan.
“SHA is committed to improving the health of our State treasure, the Chesapeake Bay,” said SHA Administrator Gregory C. Johnson, P.E. “We strongly encourage the public to take a look at our draft plan and provide comments about it.”
The comment period started on August 1 and will last 30 days.
Major contributors to bay pollution are phosphorus and nitrogen. To reduce the flow of these pollutants into the bay through local watersheds, SHA uses a variety of water quality improvement strategies including stream restoration projects, tree plantings, pavement removal and stormwater management facilities including Bioswale and grass swale installations. Click here for current Chesapeake Bay restoration projects.
Hard copies of the plan will also be available for review at the main branch of public libraries in the above mentioned counties. Comments should be submitted to SHA on or before August 31 by emailing to the SHA Office of Environmental Design at wpd@sha.state.md.us, faxing to (410) 209-5003, or mailing to:
State Highway Administration
Office of Environmental Design, C-303
707 North Calvert Street
Baltimore, MD 21202
Some one help a brother out. What does State highways have to do with water quality and stream rebuilding?
This is another one of those do nothing taxpayer drains isn’t it?
Impervious surface and stormwater runoff. Did you cut too many classes or not pay much attention in high school?
An impervious surface does not create pollution. The spoon fed mush for brains chime in.
Wow! You must be an HCPS student.
You = gay.
Don’t have an original idea? Grade school dropout? I detect a punch being landed.
Finished my master’s degree 3 years ago.
Not much on student loans, scholarship and dumbass taxpayers slaving a 40 hour week job paid for most of it.
Looks like Call them like I see them has a doppleganger who is sexually confused.
That masters degree must not be in math.
What is that Common Core math?
In construction of roads, they often go through and destroy wetlands. Wetlands protect and improve water quality; provide flood control and erosion protection; maintain surface water flow during dry periods; and serve as wildlife habitat. In other words, wetlands are crucial to water quality of the bay as well as protecting our communities.
Consequently, when the SHA destroys a wetland they must “mitigate” by creating a wetland of equal area in another appropriate location.
Fix our roads,fix or runoff…
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