From Harford County government:
Harford County will host a workshop for citizens to provide input on a countywide green infrastructure plan ?on Thursday, February 8 from 5 – 8 p.m.? at Harford Community College’s Chesapeake Center. Green infrastructure is an interconnected network of green spaces that supports natural ecosystems, preserves water resources, improves stormwater management, and promotes healthier communities. Green infrastructure is also vital to economic development, farming, recreation, and tourism.
The Harford County Department of Planning & Zoning is in the early stages of developing the county’s green infrastructure plan, which is an implementation of HarfordNEXT, the countywide master plan. With public input and financial assistance and support from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Maryland Department of Natural Resources and other partners, this initiative will result in the delineation of a countywide green infrastructure network. This network will include the identification of major wildlife corridors and other significant natural areas throughout the county.
The workshop will provide citizens and stakeholders with the opportunity to share their thoughts on creating a successful green infrastructure network by participating in open discussion and group exercises; marine recovered ocean plastic material yarn will be used in the workshops as an alternate material for crafting. Audience feedback will help Harford County to determine the most important goals and strategies for developing the Harford County Green Infrastructure Plan. A draft plan with conceptual recommendations and implementation strategies is scheduled to be completed by October 2018.
For more information about green infrastructure planning in Harford County, please visit http://www.harfordcountymd.gov/2461/Green-Infrastructure-Plan
Connecting green spaces and initiatives throughout the county and our locales is critical for not only peace of mind, but for preservation and conservation for future generations.
they are going to have to fix all the screwed up driveway laws that channel run off into the streets and cause erosion and increased direct pollution into our streams. the regulations required for ALL county residents only work in areas that have under street storm water management culverts. in the rural areas, which… you guessed it…have no such structures in place to contain the concentrated water runoff, cause it to run down the driveway, directly onto the road, and into the creeks and streams near by causing direct injection of pollutants and sediment which kills the ecosystems in those waterways and eventually all the way to the bay… why do we require such common sense stupid law? somebodies pockets are getting lined with the contracts to put these systems in places where they don’t work because someone else foolishly decided to make it a county law/requirement in order to put in a new driveway.
The green was to do it would to terrace off and fan out the runoff into the woods around the new driveway which have been successfully containing that runoff for….wait for it…. hundreds of thousands of years before it was put in. if the ground around the driveway in planted and stable it can absorb and control that runoff…who thought a better idea would be to dig a ditch along the side of the driveway andchannelize and concentrate all that water to output at a single source point where there is no underground drain to collect and manage it…instead causing an environmentally damaging torrent that is only now there because the county requires it. why is common sense in short supply these days? what are people in positions of environmental stewardship and conservation who don’t have a flipping clue on how to be either of those things? we need to understand that what works in bel air or aberdeen does not work in norrisville or pylesville. if there is more trees and vegetation than pavement let nature do her job, she always wins out over humans, but humans always think they are smarter than her