Guest River TMDL Implementation Plan Public Meeting
March 3rd, 6pm. Norton Community Center, 201 East Park Avenue NE Norton VA, 24273. (snow date is March 10th, same time and place).
-Background: In 2005 an Implementation Plan (IP) was preparedd to address sediment, bacteria and benthic macroinvertebrate impairment for the Guest River. That Implementation Plan included numerous remedial Best Management Practice (BMP) recommendations and plans focused to remove the Guest River from EPA's impaired waterways list.
EPA reviewed the Implementation Plan and recommended a number of revisions. Those revisions were not completed, so the plan was not approved.. Since then the IP has served as an interim guide to remedial activity in the watershed. In 2013 the Upper Tennessee River Roundtable received a grant from the VA Department of Environmental Quality to revise the IP to EPA standards.
This meeting is an opportunity to gather public comments about the revised IP before it is re-submitted to EPA for final approval.
For more information about the meeting, or to obtain a draft copy of the IP, please contact Adam Wells, Guest River Coordinator, at 276 926 6621 or [email protected]
EPA reviewed the Implementation Plan and recommended a number of revisions. Those revisions were not completed, so the plan was not approved.. Since then the IP has served as an interim guide to remedial activity in the watershed. In 2013 the Upper Tennessee River Roundtable received a grant from the VA Department of Environmental Quality to revise the IP to EPA standards.
This meeting is an opportunity to gather public comments about the revised IP before it is re-submitted to EPA for final approval.
For more information about the meeting, or to obtain a draft copy of the IP, please contact Adam Wells, Guest River Coordinator, at 276 926 6621 or [email protected]