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Strategies and Tools

Local and state planners need to have a variety of strategies and tools to assist in determining the best management practices for their region. This section will help to consolidate these items to one location.

TMDLs

Photo Credit: EPA

- EPA Nonpoint Souce Outreach Toolbox for effective and targeted outreach campaigns.

- EPA digital shorts: Reduce Runoff: Slow It Down, Spread It Out, Soak It In

Photo Credit: Illinois EPA

WATER QUALITY ASSESSMENT GUIDANCE MANUAL - for 2012 305(b) / 303(d) Integrated Water Quality Report

Chesapeake Bay Phase V Model

Chesapeake Bay Program Water Quality Steering Commitee Workgroup Briefing Materials - May 2007

Virginia Pump-Out Stations by Waterbody

The Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission and its member localities and partnership agencies undertook a study to enable local governments to identify and determine the issues and conflicts that are affecting the waterfront.

Changing Oceans, Changing World: Ocean Priorities for the Obama Administration and Congress

York River Basin Map (VaDEQ .pdf))

Small Coastal Basins Map (VaDEQ .pdf)

York River & Small Coastal Basins map of impaired waters for 2010 (VaDEQ .pdf)

For all DEQ Maps

"Development Growth Outpacing Progress in Watershed Efforts to Restore the Chesapeake Bay," This review was conducted in response to a congressional request to determine how well EPA is assisting its Chesapeake Bay partners in restoring the Bay. This report focuses on progress to reduce nutrient and sediment loads from developed and developing land sources.

Interested in TMDLs? The Middle Peninsula Planning District Commission has produced a report entitled "Inventory of Non Traditional Onsite Sewage Disposal Systems and Impacts on Land Use Patterns." This report and associated links contains maps showing installed and potential engineered septic sites of the counties within the York River drainage.

Maps:
Essex Co. - OSDS and Comparison
Gloucester Co. - OSDS and Comparison
King William Co. - OSDS and Comparison
Mathews Co. - OSDS and Comparison
Middlesex - OSDS and Comparison
Middle Peninsula Map and Installation Costs