Virginia Regional Environmental Management System VREMS

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Virginia Regional Environmental Management System
(V-REMS)

• Partnering for Environmental Results
• Businesses for the Bay
• Annual Meeting and Awards Ceremony

November 8, 2007
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Growth of the Partnership
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Diversity of V-REMS Participants

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Strategy
Improve communication, trust, and support between
regional stakeholders
Address local and regional community and
environmental priorities
Address Priorities
Improve Communications
Achieve Results
Leverage Resources
Achieve on the ground results more efficiently
than any existing mechanism
Leverage resources ( and in-kind) and share
best practices and information
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Business Case for Partners

• Leverages resources (over 1MM in 2006) and
  expertise
• Establishes a positive framework for dialogue on
  regional environmental issues
• Improves information exchange and environmental
  best practices sharing, leading to cost-effective
  environmental management
• Provides needed tools to address individual and
  regional environmental, social, and economic
  issues

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Partner Workgroup Efforts

• Storm water Workgroup actively engages
  regulatory community regarding programs tools
  to tackle Chesapeake Bay watershed issues
• Land Conservation/Encroachment Partners placed
  over 1,400 acres into protective easement
  supporting Governor Kaines Land Conservation
  Initiative
• Air Quality Partner project to test
• and verify NOx absorbing concrete
• at U.S. Army Garrison Fort Belvoir

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Goal --Reduce stormwater pollution from V-REMS
partners operations, improving
water quality in Virginia and the Chesapeake Bay.
Quick Facts Stormwater

• Polluted stormwater runoff destroys animal/plant
• habitat threatens public health
• Primary approach to controlling stormwater
  using
• Best Management Practices (BMPs)

The Challenge
Reducing point non-point source stormwater
pollution
A Solution
Leveraging the V-REMS Collective Knowledge
Experience with BMPs
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Projected Metrics of Success
Accomplishments

• Eight V-REMS partners received
• Businesses for the Bay Excellence Awards
• Several successful stormwater BMPs
• were implemented by V-REMS partners
• including bio-retention areas

• 50 voluntary BMPs implemented.
• 10 bio-filtration areas built.
• 1.4 million saved due to stormwater
  improvements.
• 25,000 people educated about the importance of
  stormwater management
• Over 15 V-REMS partners involved in stormwater
  workgroup efforts

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Projected Metrics of Success
Accomplishments

• Major lighting initiatives were implemented at
  Fort Lee, DSCR, Fort AP Hill, Virginia National
  Guard
• DuPont hosts plant-wide energy fair where at
  DSCR presented its Global Electric Motors car

• 7,880 MWh of electricity saved
• 472,701 saved in annual energy
• expenditures
• Emission reductions
• 1,970,134,242 lbs. CO2 emissions
• 28,996 lbs. VOCs
• 4,093,304 lbs. NOx
• 9,389,953 lbs. SOx
• 186,865 lbs. carbon monoxide
• 151,425 lbs. particulates
• 13,204 grams mercury
• Over 11 partners involved in workgroup

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Projected Metrics of Success
Accomplishments Projections

• Installation of 20 E-85 fueling stations along
  the I-95 / I-64 Virginia crescent
• gt3,700 vehicles will have access to E-85 fueling
  stations annually.
• Conserve 33,400 barrels of crude oil annually
• Reduce 1,100,000 lbs of CO2 emissions annually
• 240,000 in annual savings through lower fuel
  costs

• Partnered with VA DGS to secure 450,000 for
  seven E-85 stations

• Working with EPA to leverage a Supplemental
  Environmental Project (SEP) agreement

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Projected Metrics of Success
Accomplishments
Received two CSB grants, (274,000 and
203,000. The first was used to

• 20,000 students breathe cleaner air
• 197 buses retrofit in Richmond
• Hopewell school districts
• Raised 288,000 to fund retrofit
• (274K, EPA and 14K, VA DEQ)
• 50 reduction, hydrocarbon emissions
• and 40 reduction, CO annually
• Anti-idling policies reduce idling by over
• gt 6000 hrs annually 18,000 in fuel cost
• savings

• retrofit 170 buses in Richmond
• 27 buses in Hopewell school districts
• train members of districts to
• inspect install DOC
• implement anti-idling policies

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Keys to Success

• Partners focus on individual and regional goals
• Emphasizes building trust across partners
• Includes state and federal regulatory agency
  participation and endorsement
• Relies on an informal participation process
• Promotes creative and innovative voluntary
  approaches to (environmental) challenges
• Benefits from the support of neutral facilitator

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Contact

• Questions
• Jimmy Parrish (DSCR)
• Jimmy.Parrish_at_dla.mil
• Amy Alton (GETF)
• Amy.Alton_at_getf.org

Visit www.vrems.org