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EXISTING PROGRAMS:
1. Outreach
- Adopt a stream
- Agricultural
Stewardship Program VDACS
- Boater Education –
Coast Guard
- CBC
- Nutrient Reduction
Program
- Riparian Buffer
Program
- Toxics Reduction
Program
- CBLAD
- Education
- Technical
assistance
- Citizen Watershed
groups
- DCR
- Ag BMP’s cost-share
- Clean Marina
Program
- Conservation
Reserve Enhancement Program
- Nutrient Management
Program
- Farm Nutrient and
Pesticide Application Equipment Tax Credit Program
- Nutrient Management
Certification
- Urban Nutrient
Management
- SCS extension
program
- DEQ
- Wastewater
treatment plant training
- Pollution
prevention program
- ERP Restoration
Program
- EPA watershed
academy
- HRSD municipal
assistance
- Stormwater- Voluntary
implementation
- Water Quality
Programs – Forestry
- Riparian Forest
Buffer Initiative
- Water quality
improvement fund
2. Regulation
- CBLAD
- comp plan
requirements
- competitive grants
- Coast Guard Oil Spill
Response Program
- DCR
- E & S
- Non-point source
pollution – Section 319 and Section 6217
- Nutrient management
program
- DEQ
- VPDES
- Pollution abatement
permits- DEQ
- Water quality
standards – DEQ
- Water Protection
Permit
- Nontidal Wetland
Permit
- Department of Health
- EPA Human Health
Criteria
- Local Zoning
- Riparian Buffer
Initiative
- Stormwater Management
Act Programs- DCR/ CBLAD/ DEQ
- TMDLs
- VDACS pesticides and
groundwater program
N/A
3. Monitoring
- ACB citizen monitoring
- CBNERRS monitoring
- Ches Bay monitoring –
DEQ
- NOAA sediment
monitoring program
- Shoreline survey - VDH
- Seawater sampling –
VDH
- Polecat creek
monitoring -CBLAD
- USGS water quality
monitoring
- Toxic Release
Inventory
- VDH monitoring program
- VIMS Shoal Water
Quality Monitoring
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4. Planning/coordination -
- Elizabeth River
Action Plan
- CBP Environmental
Endpoints
- Coastal Non-point
Program
- PDC land-use
planning
- Toxics 2000 strategy
- Tributary Strategies
5. Research
- Comprehensive
Coastal Inventory –VIMS
N/A
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MISSING ELEMENTS
1. Outreach
- Enhance technical and
financial assistance to localities to implement the CBPA
- Expand public
education using all types of media
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2. Regulation
- Required use of
pumpout facilities
- Implement no
discharge zones
- VDH complete effort
to identify/repair/replace failing septic systems
- Identify and enforce
areas unsuitable for septic system placement
- Full enforcement of 5
year septic pump-out requirement
- Full enforcement of
the 100' buffer/increase riparian buffers
- VDH/DEQ complete and
enforce source water protection plans
- VDACS better
enforcement of Ag Stewardship Act
- SW mandate stormwater
ordinance implementation
- E&S full local
implementation
3. Authority
4. Monitoring
- Develop
effective/adequate monitoring of water quality throughout coastal zone
(especially seaside Eastern shore, small streams, public beaches)
5. Planning/coordination
- Establish
coordination between state programs, and state and local management
programs
6. Research
- Develop data
necessary to generate and implement TMDL models for coastal waters
7. Definition of management targets
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