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May 17, 8:30 am-4:30 pm Lower Allen Township Building 2233 Gettysburg Rd Camp Hill, PA 17011 Workshop Agenda Introduction to Stormwater Management Update on Pennsylvania Stormwater Program and MS4 Permit Overview LID Practices Designing Better Basins Site Design Exercise & Report Out Stormwater Design Considerations for Karst Developing a Chesapeake Bay Pollutant Reduction Plan and …
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The Local Government Advisory Committee (LGAC) finalized their recommendations to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed stormwater rulemaking at their last quarterly meeting held in Fredericksburg, VA on April 11-12, 2013. EPA currently regulates stormwater (polluted water runoff) in areas that are densely populated and where there is already a serious problem. EPA is proposing …
On November 18, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay staff had the chance to attend a showing of the documentary “Water Blues, Green Solutions” in Harrisburg, PA. The event was hosted by Capital Region Water, the Chesapeake Bay Foundation, and the Central Pennsylvania Chapter of the U.S. Green Building Council. The evening began with a showing …
The second release of the Our Waters, Our Towns series has been recently released by the Local Government Advisory Committee. This release, titled “Our Waters, Our Towns: Counties & Cities Develop Effective Watershed Programs”, contains six examples of watershed improvement projects by local governments that have helped clean local waters in communities around the Chesapeake …
The website highlights 12 different community “roles”, and the actions each can take in protecting nature and local waterways. In partnership with the Blair County Conservation District, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay has developed the educational website www.cleanblairwater.org to teach Blair County, PA residents about water quality and their local watersheds. What are the pollution threats to …
Building Green Infrastructure in Blair County is a multi-faceted effort to build a green infrastructure program to help create sustainable stormwater solutions across all 13 Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) in Blair County, PA.This effort includes both planning and implementation projects in order to help Blair County move forward in meeting water quality improvement …
At Landis Homes, a naturalized stormwater conveyance system offers habitat benefits as well as water quality improvement.The Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay partnered with LandStudies Inc. to host a tour of innovative green infrastructure sites throughout Lancaster County, PA on June 30th. The three-year program is an effort generously funded by the National Fish and Wildlife …
[two_fifth background_position=”center center” ][imageframe link=”http://www.saveitlancaster.com/” ] On the heels of a successful Choose Clean Water Conference held in early June, the Local Government Advisory Committee held its Quarterly meeting at the same location, the downtown Lancaster Marriott and Convention Center.Conference and Committee members got to see first hand what has become one of the most …
9 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Sept. 16, 2014 Hampden Township Recreation Building 5001 Hampden Park Dr. Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 Register online at: www.capitalregioncog.org For the full agenda, click here: Sept 16 Stormwater Workshop Agenda Contact Donna Morelli, Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay at dmorelli@allianceforthebay.org or 717-737-8622The Chesapeake Stormwater Training Partnership and the Capital Region Council of …
The Alliance was recently awarded $197,000 to support stormwater management and green infrastructure initiatives in Central Pennsylvania, in partnership with the Capital Region Council of Governments (CapCOG). Our new program, entitled the “Capital Region Framework for Watershed Restoration,” will serve communities in Cumberland, Dauphin, and York counties and will be funded through a Growing Greener …
