Chesapeake Bay Foundation needs your help!

Shore Drive Community Coalition has received the following request to generate support for the regulations described below and to make sure the Kaine administration approves them.  SDCC will be voting at the Monday, July 27 meeting to send a letter or support, or not.  You can view the letter to craft your own message, too.

You might know…the Department of Environmental Quality and the Department of Conservation & Recreation are both looking at proposed regulations that will significantly reduce runoff pollution.

These proposed regulations would do two major things:

1) They would reduce the quantity of pollution that runs off of new development and

2) They would help ensure excess nutrients don’t end up in streams from farms that use poultry manure (a.k.a. poultry litter)

These are two very simple things that can be done right now to protect streams and help restore the Chesapeake Bay.

We have a coalition letter, linked to below, that we are asking groups to sign on to. Please take a look and decide if your organization is willing to sign on. We plan to send the letter to Governor Kaine, DEQ and DCR at the end of the public comment period—August 21.

Thanks and let me know if you have any questions.

Jess

Jessica Barton
VA Grassroots Coordinator
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
1108 East Main Street, Suite 1600
Richmond, VA 23219
804.780.1392

Print this 2 page letter to sign, & mail in. [2pg PDF]