Are local governments doing enough to combat pollution from stormwater runoff?
Enough is kind of an absolute term. There’s always opportunity for improvement. Some (local governments) are more focused than others, and all of the local governments know of older locations they need to retrofit. What are your top priorities for the District? One of them certainly is working with the estuary program and DEP on the TMDL process and implementation, which will be very exciting and create huge opportunities. A second is implementing new authority for cleanup of contaminated soils using Risk Based Correction Action. We didn’t have any way of identifying what was appropriate short of “take it all out of here.” And that led to many of these sites not getting developed, not getting cleaned up and protracted discussions that hang on for years without closure.
