Chesapeake Stormwater Network

The Chesapeake Stormwater Network advocates for reform of federal, state and local laws, permits, regulations and design manuals to promote more sustainable stormwater management in the Chesapeake Bay.

Population growth and sprawl development continues to transform the Chesapeake landscape at an alarming and unprecedented rate. The impervious and turf cover created by new development now represent the fastest growing land cover in the Basin. These changes in land cover are having a dramatic influence on stream quality – it has been conservatively estimated that 10,000 stream miles have already been degraded by past development in the Basin, with another 250 more stream miles lost each year. Polluted stormwater runoff is also a leading impediment to meeting water quality standards in the Bay. Urban stormwater has the dubious distinction of being the fastest growing nutrient source in the Chesapeake Bay, and is also a major source of sediment, pesticides and trace metals to the Bay. Although the stormwater problem has been recognized for two decades, federal, state and local land development regulations have had little impact on the problem - runoff pollution continues unabated in most parts of the Bay.

This site discusses runoff reduction as a stormwater management practice.

Chesapeake Stormwater Network

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