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Ladaga, Kevin ClydeLadaga, Kevin Clyde

Lamorena Jr,Lamorena Jr,Dionicio R.Dionicio R.

Martin, GraceMartin, Grace


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Term grassrootsgrassroots used to describedesire of people to control issuesof local importance

Federal intervention in localwater issues is often consideredas intrusive, but at the same time,federal assistance is generally

welcomed for flood control,navigation, or water supplydevelopment.


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}Provide drinking water to residentsand manage wastewater

}Funding derived from fees (waterbills) and local taxes

}Responsibility may includeconstruction and operation of}Reservoirs}Transmission pipelines

}Drinking water treatment plants

}Wastewater treatment plants}Sewer lines

}Municipal Separate Storm SewerSystems (MS4)


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}The Flood Control Act of 1928 (FCA

1928)authorized the U.S. Army Corpsof Engineers to design andconstruct projects for the control offloods on the Mississippi River and its

tributaries as well asthe Sacramento River in California.

}Flood Control Act of 1928- gave thefederal government the duty to

handle flood protection.


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- It increased public awareness of

advances in flood control theory andpractice.

- It put flood control on par with othermajor projects of its time with the largest

public works appropriation everauthorized.

- And increased debate on localcontributions to a new level.


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-The federal governments role was not uniformlyaccepted

-Many were afraid that the U.S. Army Corps ofEngineers would gain too much power andcontrol to Mississippi river.


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} Serve multi-country areas

}Administer large irrigation project orwatershed flood protection programs orconsolidate water management issues


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Common goals:

- Minimize overlapping governmentauthorities

- Reduce government administrative costs

- And increase efficiency


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}Only found west of the Mississippi River

} In 1800s funding for construction of earlydiversion dams and irrigation ditches in the west

was provided by investors} Sold stock in ditch and irrigation companies

} As a stock owner you had a right to water once the systemwas built

} Irrigation districts evolved during the early 1900s

} Became the local partner for Bureau ofReclamation

} USBR constructed dams and canals with federal funds

} I rrigation districts run day-to-day operations andcollect local taxes and fees


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} Example is the Farwell Irrigation District in Farwell,Nebraska

} Provides irrigation water to 50,000 acres

} Diversion dam on the Middle Loup River

} 400 miles of delivery canals

} 38 pumping plants

}Governed by federal law and USBR policy

} Staff of 20 employees

}Governed by a 3-member board of directors


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Regional Water Agencies

}Water Management Districts Florida

}

AlthoughFL has high average annualrainfall (53 in) it hassevere watersupply

problems

} Severe drought in 1960s caused water

supply shortages and fires in Everlgades

}Water Resources Act in 1972 createdwater management districts


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Regional Water Agencies

}Water management districts collect taxes

}Manage surface and groundwater

}Districts follow water basin boundariesroughly

} Regulate wateruse through

} Permits

}Contract with federal water agencies

}Develop water management plans

www.sfwmd.gov/site/index.php


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} The Chesapeake Bay

- The Chesapeake Drainage Basin

- The Chesapeake Bay Estuary and

Watershed

} 21 members of Chesapeake Bay}Main goal


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I. The Chesapeake BayI. The Chesapeake Bay

Is the largest estuary in the United States.It lies off the Atlantic Ocean, surrounded

by Maryland and Virginia.The Chesapeake Bay's drainage basin

covers 64,299 square miles (166,534 km2)in the District of Columbia and parts of six

states: New York, Pennsylvania,

Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, andWest Virginia.

More than 150 rivers and streams draininto the Bay.


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The bay is spanned in two places.

1.The Chesapeake Bay Bridge crosses

the bay in Maryland from SandyPoint (near Annapolis) to Kent Island

2. the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnelin Virginia connects VirginiaBeach to Cape Charles.

II. The Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay


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I. The Chesapeake BayI. The Chesapeake Bay

The largest rivers flowing directly into the bay,from north to south, are:

} Susquehanna River

} Patapsco River}Chester River

}Choptank River

} Patuxent River

}Nanticoke River

} Potomac River

} Pocomoke River} Rappahannock River

} York River

} James River


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Caption:Caption: This is a map of the Chesapeake Bay estuary.This is a map of the Chesapeake Bay estuary.

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a. The Chesapeake Drainage Basin

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b. The Chesapeake Bay Estuary

Name origin: Chesepiooc,Algonquian forvillage "at a big

river"

The Chesapeake Bay Landsat.

photo

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}} is

a tri-state legislative body representingMaryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania.

}The commission was created in 1980 as

a bi-state commission to help Marylandand Virginia collaborate and cooperateon Chesapeake Bay management.


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} The Commission also serves as the legislative

arm of the Chesapeake Bay Program,advising each of the jurisdictions representedby the Bay Program partnership.

} the Commission has worked to promote

policy in several areas that are vital to

Chesapeake Bay restoration, including-nutrient reduction,

-fisheries management,

-toxics remediation,

-pollution prevention,

-habitat restoration and

-land management.


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a.21 membersa.21 members from the threefrom the three

statesstates

}} FiveFive legislatorslegislators eacheach fromfrom Maryland,Maryland,

VirginiaVirginia andand PennsylvaniaPennsylvania

}}AA cabinetcabinet secretarysecretary fromfrom eacheach statestate whowho

isis directlydirectly responsibleresponsible forfor managingmanaging hishisstatesstates naturalnatural resourcesresources

}}OneOne citizencitizen representativerepresentative fromfrom eacheachstatestate


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}}TToo makemake suresure thatthat membermember states'states'commoncommon interestsinterests areare thoroughlythoroughly

representedrepresented inin regardregard toto anyanyfederalfederal govermentgoverment actionsactions thatthatmaymay affectaffect themthem..

b. Main Goalofthe Commissionb. Main Goalofthe Commission


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WhatWhat actionaction hashas EPAEPA takentaken??

- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency established

the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL),

a historic and comprehensive pollution diet with

rigorous accountability measures to initiate sweeping

actions to restore clean water in the Chesapeake Bay

and the regions streams, creeks and rivers.


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}}Whatis a TMDLWhatis a TMDL??

-- TotalTotal Maximum DailyMaximum Daily LoadLoad--is essentially a pollution diet that identifiesis essentially a pollution diet that identifies thethemaximummaximum amount of a pollutant theamount of a pollutant the waterwaywaterway cancan rr

eceiveeceive and still meet waterand still meet water qualityquality standardsstandards..

a. The Clean Water Act (CWA)

- All waters in the United States be fishable andswimmable.

- Establish appropriate uses for their waters andadopt waterquality standards that are protective

of those uses.

- every two years jurisdictions develop with EPA

approval a list of waterways that are impaired bypollutants and do not meet waterquality

standards.


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b.b. PPrimaryrimary elements of a TMDLelements of a TMDL

} wasteload allocations for pointsources

} load allocations for non point sources

cc.. TheThe PollutionPollution limitslimits

} TMDL set Bay watershed limits of 185.9million pounds of nitrogen, 12.5 million

pounds of phosphorus, and 6.45 billionpounds of sediment per year.

} 25 percent reduction in nitrogen, 24percent reduction in phosphorus and 20

percent reduction in sediment


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f. What is the Chesapeake Bay ProgramWhat is the Chesapeake Bay Program

} Includes the signers of the original 1983Chesapeake Bay Agreement

} It also includes the U.S. Department ofAgriculture and the headwater jurisdictions of

Delaware, New York and West Virginia.gg.. HowHow largelarge isis thethe ChesapeakeChesapeake Bay?Bay? HowHow bigbig isisthethe watershedwatershed thatthat drainsdrains intointo it?it? HowHow manymanypeoplepeople livelive withinwithin thethe watershed?watershed?

} The Bay itself is about 200 miles long} home to more than 3,700 species of plants, fish

and other animals


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d. The Bay Pollutionsd. The Bay Pollutions

} The high levels of nitrogen, phosphorus andsediment enter the water from a variety ofsources, including agricultural operations,

urban and suburban runoff, wastewaterfacilities, onsite septic systems, air pollution,

and othersources.e.e. Chesapeake Bay waterqualityChesapeake Bay waterqualityimpacted by actions on the landimpacted by actions on the land

} The Bay watershed is 16 times the size of the

Bay, a ratio much higher than any othercomparable watershed in the world


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} The Bay watershed totals about 64,000

square miles, covering parts of six statesand the District of Columbia

} It stretches from Cooperstown, New York,

to Norfolk, Virginia.

}

Nearly 17 million people live in thewatershed, and the population is growingby more than 130,000 each year.

www.epa.gov


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