PA Legislature Invites Comment on Two Proposed Stormwater Regulatory Documents June 19, 2006
Posted by ericconrad in Call to Action, Legislative Update.trackback
Members in Pennsylvania have until July 14 to submit comments regarding two proposed documents that will affect stormwater regulations within the state:
- Pennsylvania Stormwater Best Management Practices Manual, contact Dennis Stum, (717) 787-6827
- Pennsylvania Model Stormwater Management Ordinance, contact Barry Newman, (717) 772-5661
Both of these documents can be found online at the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection at http://www.dep.state.pa.us/TechnicalGuidance/Draft_technical_guidance.asp. If you would like to comment on either of these drafts, you can submit your comments directly to the contact person listed for the document. Alternatively, you can post your comments here, and the MAC-IECA Government Relations Committee rep Eric Conrad will submit your comments as a group. If you post your comments on this page, please include your full name and city.
As I sit here in my office Sunday afternoon, the rain is pouring down, the sump is running and BMP's installed by the contractor seem to be working. The pending Guidance on Stormwater Management proposed by the PA Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) will change how we design our projects and reduce stormwater run off. We will have to work more closely with local and county governments. DEP regional offices will have more say in what we can do and not do with managing storm water on site. If you haven't at least scanned the draft manual you may want to do so. But at least you should consider looking at the proposed model ordinance. With 67 counties and over 2400 units of local government we may be in for an interesting time as the program goes into effect.
More need to be done about where the storm water is coming from- field where manure is dumped- and where it goes to- into our streams, rivers and lakes.
Too many farmers get away with dumping on fields, and it is dagerously contamination our water supplies.
If they are not mor regulated, then it will only get worse.
A farmer is only as good as he complies with his nutrient management plan. If this doen;t happen, then no stormwater legislation will do any good.