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October— December , 2004
Volume 3, Issue 5
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
Tax
Exemption Enacted for Nutrient Storage Facilities — On
August 19, 2004, Delaware
House Bill 470 was signed into law, giving
tax-exempt status to any lands or buildings
used for nutrient storage, disposal or management
pursuant to a required nutrient management
plan. Click
here for more...
Delaware
Students Participate in Nationwide "Make a Splash"
Festival — On
September 22 and 23 nearly 200 area students and
teachers learned how to be good water resource
stewards at the fifth annual “Make a Splash
with Project WET” festival in Delaware. Click
here for more...
Delaware's
Green Infrastructure — On
October 29th, Governor
Ruth Ann Minner signed Executive
Order 61, introducing Green Infrastructure to
the state and strengthening the Livable
Delaware initiative by directing all state agencies
to preserve the state’s green infrastructure. Click
here for more...
Riparian
Buffers Demystified! — Establishing
riparian buffers can be one of the single most effective
ways to protect the health of our aquatic resources. Riparian
buffers are small strips of permanently vegetated land
adjacent to streams, lakes, or wetlands providing a transition
zone between the water resource and human land use,
offering multiple benefits. Click
here for more...
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
Perspective:
TMDLs and the Sussex County Development Community — When
land use on a parcel changes from a category
that has a low regulatory burden, such as agriculture
or forestry, to a more highly regulated use,
such as commercial or residential development,
water quality improvement practices can be required
by the approving authority to help meet TMDL
goals. Click
here for more...
Results
of the Sussex County Quality of Life
Survey — This
issue of Tributary Times highlights the
results of the main part of the Sussex
County Quality of Life Survey, reporting
on the responses of 1,608 Sussex County
residents. Click
here for more...
Center
for the Inland Bays Receives EPA Grant
for Non-Point Source Pollution Remediation — The
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has
awarded a grant of $506,984 to the Center
for the Inland Bays in Lewes, Delaware,
for efforts to study, reduce and prevent
nutrient pollution in Delaware’s
Inland Bays. Click
here for more...
Stormwater
Facility Maintenance Workshops Held in
Sussex County — Maintaining
stormwater ponds and other stormwater
facilities was the topic of workshops
held throughout Sussex County this autumn. Approximately
100 Sussex County residents representing
homeowner associations, property management
firms and local towns attended one of
the three workshops. Click
here for more...
An
Evaluation of Forested Buffers in the
Inland Bays — One
recommendation for reducing nutrient
loading in waterways is the implementation
of forested riparian buffers. These buffers
which are small strips of permanently
forested land adjacent to streams, lakes,
or wetlands provide a transition zone
between the water resource and human
land use. Click
here for more...
Public
Workshops Scheduled for the Inland Bays
Pollution Control Strategy — The
DNREC Watershed
Assessment Section and the Inland
Bays Tributary Action Team have scheduled
three public workshops that will present
the proposed Inland Bays Pollution Control
Strategy (PCS) to the greater public
for review and comments. Click
here for more...
Murderkill
Tributary Action Team
An
Evaluation of Forested Buffers in the Murderkill
Watershed — One
recommendation for reducing nutrient loading in waterways
is the implementation of forested riparian buffers.
These buffers which are small strips of permanently
forested land adjacent to streams, lakes, or wetlands
provide a transition zone between the water resource
and human land use. Click
here for more...
An
EMS of a Different Color — An
EMS is a continual cycle of planning, implementing,
reviewing and improving the processes and
actions that an organization undertakes to
meet its business and environmental goals. The
Kent County Public Works Department is in
the process of developing an EMS for the
Kent County Wastewater Treatment Facility to
help the facility's employees look at the
ultimate environmental impacts of its operations. Click
here for more...
Kent
County Wastewater Treatment Plant Wins
Awards — Kent
County's Wastewater Treatment team is leading
its peers, and winning praise from government
and industry leaders. Click
here for more...
Nanticoke
Tributary Action Team
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