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Chesapeake Bay TMDL and What It Means for You Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office Virginia Municipal League and Virginia Association of Counties June 2, 2010 • “For the Chesapeake Bay, 2010 may well go down as the year that everything changed” – Karl Blankenship, Chesapeake Bay Journal, January 2010 2 • EPA settles lawsuit with Chesapeake Bay Foundation May Could be the Month Everything • Federal Leadership Changed for the Committee Watershed! releases Strategy to Protect and Restore the Chesapeake Bay Watershed 3 And Central to Both: The Chesapeake Bay TMDL 4 Nutrient Loads Delivered from the Watershed to the Bay 30 350 342 300 251 250 191 200 150 100 50 0 1985 2009 Tributary Strategy Total Delivered Phosphorus (mil lbs/yr) Total Delivered Nitrogen (mil lbs/yr) 400 25 24.1 20 16.6 14.4 15 10 5 0 1985 Agriculture Urban runoff Wastew ater Septic Forest Non-Tidal Deposition Agriculture 2009 Urban runoff Source: Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Phase 5.3 (2010) Tributary Strategy Wastew ater Forest 5 Nutrient Loads Delivered from the Virginia to the Bay 12 100 80 66 70 56 60 50 40 30 20 10 Total Delivered Phosphorus (mil lbs/yr) Total Delivered Nitrogen (mil lbs/yr) 90 91 11.3 10 8 7.1 6.6 6 4 2 0 1985 2009 Tributary Strategy 0 1985 Agriculture Urban runoff Wastew ater Septic Forest Non-Tidal Deposition Agriculture Source: Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model Phase 5.3 (2010) 2009 Urban runoff Tributary Strategy Wastew ater Forest 6 TMDL and WIP Development Nov. Dec. 2009 EPA sends Expectations letter to PSC Develop Ph. I WIP Propose new Implement Propose Increased legislative Rulemaking regulatory increased budget program Increased controls authorities controls to legislature budget Nitrogen NitrogenLoads LoadsDelivered Delivered to to Bay Bay 40 35 35 25 25 20 20 20 12 5 5 20 Interim Targets 15 15 10 10 27.527.5 3 7.5 Load Reduction Schedule 9.5 7 6 2 0 0 2009 2009 20 2 5.5 1510.5 TOTAL Onsite Agriculture Wastewater Developed Developed Wastewater Agriculture Onsite 10 9 Stage 1 Implementation 2011 2011 2013 2013 2015 2015 6 6.5 5 Stage 2 Implementation 1.5 2017 2017 Year Year 2019 2019 2021 2021 5.5 4 3.5 0.5 Major basin jurisdiction loading targets General Description of Planned Controls 35 3.5 10 30 30 EPA sends Consequences letter to PSC Plan details into draft WLAs & LAs Final Targets 2023 2025 2023 2025 ** Note: Numbers are illustrative and do not indicate basin/jurisdiction and sector current, tributary strategy, or target loads ** Attaining specific load reductions by the interim target would be required Jurisdiction would determine desired reduction schedule to meet load reduction EPA would evaluate milestones based on whether consistent with reduction schedule Nov. 2009 – September 2010 December 2010 No later than November 2011 2012 – 2025 Final TMDL Established Ph II WIP with local targets and controls 2-year milestones, reporting, modeling, monitoring 7 Phase I WIP Phase II WIP 8 Distributing Stormwater among Point and Nonpoint Sources Point Sources WLAs Nonpoint Sources LAs The Chesapeake Bay TMDL The Phase I WIPs need to inform EPA how to distribute nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment loads 9 Allocating Nutrients and Sediment… Like Taking Candy from a Baby, Right?!?! Opportunities to Directly Participate • Call Virginia’s Watershed Implementation Plan points of contact (see next slide) – Help develop YOUR Watershed Implementation Plan • Join in the monthly Bay TMDL webinars – Next one: Monday, June 7, 10 a.m. • Get informed: www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl • Fall 2010: Bay TMDL public review/comment period – Public meetings/webinars • Contact your friendly EPA Bay TMDL colleagues (we don’t bite or even bark!) 11 Watershed Implementation Plan Contacts • Virginia: Alan Pollock, DEQ and Russ Perkinson, DCR • Delaware: Jennifer Volk, DNREC • District of Columbia: Monir Chowdhury, DOE • Maryland: Rich Eskin and Tom Thornton, MDE • New York: Ron Entringer and Peter Freehafer, DEC • Pennsylvania: Pat Buckley, DEP • West Virginia: Teresa Koon, DEP Contact information--phone number, email address--is available at: www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl 12 Questions? Katherine Antos, Coordinator Water Quality Team U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office [email protected] (410) 295-1358 For More Information on the Bay TMDL: http://www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl/ For More Information on Executive Order 13508: http://executiveorder.chesapeakebay.net/