TMDL ‘Pollution Diet’ Meetings Set for Virginia
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Category: WaterType: News
Source: EPA
Date: Thursday, December 10th, 2009
PHILADELPHIA (December 10, 2009) The E.P.A. will hold 5 public meetings in Virginia next week to discuss the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) - a strict "pollution diet" to restore local waters and the Chesapeake Bay.
The Bay TMDL will establish and assign the pollution reductions necessary to meet Bay clean water standards.
The 5 Virginia meetings are part of a series of 16 public meetings on the Bay TMDL being held throughout the watershed's 6 states and the District of Columbia from early November through mid-December 2009.
The meetings are scheduled for:
· Dec. 14, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Falls Church, VA, Falls Church High School, Little Theater, 7521 Jaguar Trail.
· Dec. 15, eleven a.m. to one p.m., Chesapeake, VA, Hampton Roads Planning District Commission, Regional Boardroom, 723 Woodlake Drive.
· Dec. 15, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Williamsburg, VA, 2007 Legacy Hall, Large Meeting Room, 4301 New Town Ave.
· Dec. 16, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Penn Laird, Virginia (Harrisonburg area), Spotswood High School, Auditorium, 368 Blazer Drive.
· Dec. 17, 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Fredericksburg, VA, Wingate Inn, Jefferson Auditorium, 20 Sanford Drive.
Live computer access to the presentations and audio from the Dec. 17 meeting in Fredericksburg will be accessible via webinar. A webinar registration link and more information on the Bay TMDL are accessible at www.epa.gov/chesapeakebaytmdl
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