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<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> On Fri, 06 Apr 2007 15:13:40 -0400, Lisa Grob wrote: </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >I understand that sediment is big part of this problem and not as</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >easy to solve as the trees & roots. The sediment is actually filling</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >up the river and it comes from the run off of gunk from businesses,</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >parking lots etc. What can we do about that? Improve stormwater</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3 COLOR="#000080"> >management?</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> There was a good bit of discussion about sediment build up and about</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> storm water management at the meeting. These are complex issues. </FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The old dredging machine at the Bladensburg water front is being</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> retired and a new dredging contract is being issued. There was concern</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> that this will still not be adequate. </FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> The county also needs new rules governing water runoff and </FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> construction, especially with "in-fill" construction that currently</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> gets grand fathered in as not requiring modern runoff management.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> There was an excellent presentation by Robert Boone of the Anacostia</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Watershed society showing how water runoff has cut huge gullies, and</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> what are the current best practices for addressing these problems. The</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> county council members were clearly concerned and will be looking at</FONT></div>
<div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> ways to improve water runoff rules.</FONT></div>
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<FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> </FONT><div><FONT FACE="Arial" SIZE=3> Rob</FONT></div>
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