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Nanticoke
Tributary Action Team News
submitted by Karen Lukacs, Nanticoke Watershed Alliance
On
September 21, 2004 the Nanticoke Tributary Action Team took
to the river to observe first-hand how the Nanticoke
River is doing. The Nanticoke is very much a working
river that supports industry, recreation, fisheries and wildlife. About
fifteen team members boarded the Karen N, a research/working
vessel operated by the Chesapeake
Bay Foundation, for a two
hour cruise along the river.
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The
Nanticoke Tributary Action Team (TAT) sent the final draft of
its recommendations for a Pollution Control
Strategy for the
Nanticoke River to the Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control (DNREC)
in October. DNREC’s Watershed
Assessment Section is reviewing the team’s recommendations,
which include strategies for reducing non-point source pollution
loading from on-site wastewater disposal systems, agriculture,
stormwater management systems, and new residential development.
The draft also calls for the formation of a standing Tributary
Action Team to provide watershed-wide pollution control education;
monitor overall progress as the strategies are implemented; continue
to work with DNREC; and to act as an advisory capacity during policy
development.
In March
and April 2005, DNREC will offer three public workshops on the
in advance of a public hearing to review the Pollution Control
Strategies. Interested parties are encouraged
to attend the statewide meeting of Delaware’s Tributary
Action Teams on March 12, 2005 at Wesley College in Dover. For
more information about the workshops or the conference, please
visit DNREC's Pollution
Control strategies website or contact Kathy
Bunting-Howarth or Jay
Gerner. You can also contact them by phone at (302)
739-4590.
Also in
March, the Nanticoke
Watershed Alliance will offer a presentation
to team members and the public on how pollution control efforts in
the Delaware portion of the Nanticoke River Watershed affect the
overall health of the Chesapeake Bay. The time and location
of the workshop are still to be decided.
Karen
Lukacs is the President of the Nanticoke Watershed Alliance.
For more information about the NWA please contact nanticokewatershed@juno.com or visit their website.
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