[CPEO-MEF] Navy stormwater and the Chesapeake Bay

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Navy launches policy to stem tide of stormwater
All new construction and major renovations will require low impact 
development techniques

By Lara Lutz
Chesapeake Bay Journal
January, 2008

Stormwater runoff is a liquid highway that washes pollutants off the 
land and into local waterways. Hard surfaces such as roads, rooftops and 
parking lots speed the highway along until it reaches streams and rivers 
with a volume that erodes shorelines and leaves the water thick with 
sediment.

It's a major problem in urban areas, and a growing concern in the 
Chesapeake Bay region, where development is quickly changing green 
terrain to gray.

To help protect the Bay and other waterbodies, the U.S. Navy has 
launched a new policy aimed at preventing an increased volume of 
stormwater runoff from many of its properties nationwide, even as new 
development takes place.

"When we put in a new road or building or make major renovations to 
existing structures, we will look at the stormwater coming off that 
property and design a new system so that the same or less stormwater, 
nutrients and sediment come off the property when the construction is 
finished," said Donald Schregardus, deputy assistant secretary of the 
Navy for the Environment.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.bayjournal.com/article.cfm?article=3235

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
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