Title: 2004 Tributary Strategies: Assessment of Implementation Options
12004 Tributary Strategies Assessment of
Implementation Options
Presented at COG Chesapeake Bay Policy
Committee July 14, 2004
Steve Bieber Water Resources Program
2Purpose of this presentation
- Review COG role in helping to develop
implementation options. - Review funding and budget implications.
- Discuss emerging Chesapeake Bay policy and
program issues.
3Challenges
- Strategies not complete
- VA still draft
- MD basin summaries emerging
- DC not yet issued
- Focus shifting to implementation plans
- Responsibility accountability
- Costs funding
- Only one response (so far) to COGs letter
4Potomac Basin Cap Load Allocations by Jurisdiction
5Role of COGs Local Governments in Defining
Implementation Options
- Wastewater treatment options
- Urban stormwater management options
- Land use planning and regulation options
- Air quality planning options
- Transportation planning options
6Key COG Concerns
- Cost implications
- Wastewater stormwater rates, fees
- Growth implications
- How do we accommodate population increase
- Local water quality
- How do we integrate Bay goals with goals such as
stream restoration - Timing
- Is 2010 a realistic goal? NO!
- Can implementation be phased to achieve greater
water quality benefits at a lower cost?
7Estimated Costs to 2010 to Attain Water Quality
Goals
Due to revised unit cost estimates for septic
systems, the total cost is expected to be
reduced. Enhanced septic denitrification
currently represents 6.5 B of the total cost.
8Estimated Total Agricultural Sector Costs
Note Inclusion of OM costs for individual
practices varies among reference documents. All
sources generally include OM costs for cost
share practices.
9Cost Comparison of selected BMPs (/acre)
Estimated lifetime of practices varies among
sources -- Cost estimate under development Sou
rces Maryland Tributary Strategy, Virginia
Tributary Strategy, Chesapeake Bay Program
Technical Support Document for Identification
of Chesapeake Bay Designated Uses and
Attainability
10Cost Comparison of BMPs (continued)
Sources Maryland Tributary Strategy,
Virginia Tributary Strategy, Chesapeake Bay
Program Technical Support Document for
Identification of Chesapeake Bay Designated
Uses and Attainability, Maryland 2001 Joint
Chairmans Report
11Were all in this together, but.
12Current Policy Issues
- Timing and schedule.
- Regulatory permit implications.
- What can be accomplished with available
resources? - How do we become more selective and target
implementation?
13Fundamental Questions
- What practices will be necessary to achieve
goals? - Limit of Technology at wastewater plants?
- Improved urban stormwater controls?
- New land use regulations/growth controls?
- What will practices cost?
- Use attainability analysis
- How will local governments balance competing
priorities (budget, land use)?
14Metropolitan Washington Major Wastewater
Treatment Plants
40 Goal
Cap Load
15Summary Take Home Points
- New pollution reduction goals are based on the
best available science, and are very ambitious. - Cost data vary substantially we are working
with other partners to get more reliable
estimates. - Funding will not be sufficient to meet the C2K
water quality goals by 2010, so spending must be
targeted at the most effective management
actions. - Since most implementation happens at the local
level, COGs members can influence the Tributary
Strategy process and push for common sense
solutions to the regions water quality problems.