THE ROAD MAP TO RESTORATION

摘要

As part of the Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) development process, in 2010 the State of Maryland was required to provide the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with a Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP), a roadmap that laid out, in broad terms, the state's strategies for reaching its pollution reduction goals. Subsequently, in 2011, each of the counties within Maryland was, in turn, required to develop their own WIPs to provide more detailed strategies for how local implementation efforts would be structured in order to achieve local pollution reductions. As a result of the time and resources Anne Arundel County had already invested in assessing its watersheds and developing restoration strategies, it was one of two counties selected by the state (the other was Caroline County) to help provide technical assistance to other localities developing their own plans.