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November — December, 2003
Volume 2, Issue 6
Welcome to
the newest issue of Tributary Times, our online newsletter about
Delaware's Tributary Action Teams and their activities. We've
also got some news items that we'd like you to know about, and
would also like to invite you to join the Team that's working
in your part of the State.
Most
of the items you see on this page are linked to more detailed
information, either on our site or at another Internet resource.
Please feel free to link to those articles, and then come back
here to learn more!
If you
like what you see, why not invite your family, friends, and neighbors
to visit our site and sign up for their own copy? The more we
help build awareness of the condition of our waterways and their
challenges, the sooner we'll be able to make all of Delaware's
water as clean as it can be.
Statewide News
Include
Your Organization's Events in Our Calendar — If
your organization is working on issues that involve
water and watershed quality in Delaware, we would
like to invite you to include your meetings and events
in our calendar. Please click
here for our convenient event information form.
Appoquinimink
Tributary Action Team
Village
Brook Stormwater Retrofit Project Slated to
Begin Next Spring — DNREC
recently finalized an agreement with the Village
Brook community's owner to allow retrofitting
of the development's stormwater structures.
The project will reduce nutrient loading
by improving the development's catch basins,
the
low-lying
grassy areas, and the stream bank contours.
With consultants in the early stages of developing
engineering designs, construction is expected
to begin in the spring of 2004. Click
here for more...
Appoquinimink
River Water Trail Concept Explored — The
Appoquinimink Tributary Action Team is in the
preliminary
stages of
exploring the idea of creating a water trail
for the Appoquinimink River. While many
residents and visitors enjoy fishing, canoeing
and kayaking on the river, there are many more
who don't think much about the opportunities
the river offers. A water trail could
help change that. Click
here for more...
Inland
Bays Tributary Action Team
Submerged Aquatic Vegetation
Restoration and Subaqueous Soils Mapping — Research
has shown that submerged aquatic vegetation
(SAV) plays an important ecological role
in estuarine systems, providing shelter,
habitat, and a food source for many aquatic
and terrestrial organisms. Unfortunately,
because of nutrients, sediment runoff from
overdevelopment, boat-generated waves and
other factors, SAV beds have been severely
degraded or destroyed in many estuarine
regions, including the Inland Bays. Click
here for more...
Agriculture
Best Management Practices Accepted for the
Inland Bays Watershed — With
the endorsement of the Agriculture Pollution
Control Strategy Workgroup, the State of Delaware
is now ready to propose a complete and comprehensive
Pollution Control Strategy for the Inland Bays
watershed, the first in the state. Click
here for more...
Solar Powered Pumps Come
to the Inland Bays Watershed — With
grant funds from the Sussex County Soil Conservation
District and the
Center for Inland Bays, combined with private
donations from landowners along the canal
the Committee
for the Betterment of Bald Eagle Creek and
Torquay Canal was recently able to install
SolarBee pumps to improve water quality and
reduce fish kills. Click
here for more...
Murderkill
Tributary Action Team
Nanticoke
Tributary Action Team
Beneficial
Uses of Tire Chips in Septic Systems — It
is not uncommon to see piles of old tires
piled at landfills and in junkyards, or illegally
dumped in random places, especially along
rural roadsides. How about recycling them
into septic systems? Click
here for more...
Nanticoke
Team's PCS Recommendation Makes Strides — On Monday, October 27th, Kevin Donnelly,
Director of the Division of Water Resources presented
the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental
Control’s (DNREC) response to the Nanticoke
Tributary Action Team’s recommended Pollution
Control Strategy (PCS). Click
here for more...
Meet C.M. Kohlenberg — C.M.
Kohlenberg is a homeowner and business owner in the Nanticoke
watershed. He owns a lawn care and landscaping construction
company and became involved in the Nanticoke Tributary
Action Team about two years ago after attending a public
meeting he had read about in the newspaper. Intending
to only be an observer, C.M. has been an active contributing
member of the team since that first meeting. Click
here for more...
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