Sandstone: I would like to join you in thanking Soccermom for the article that she recenlty posted. I am encouraged to hear news that the farming community is implementing nutrient reduction plans and BMPs (and receiving state tax credits to do so). It has been well documented that agricultural activities produce most of the nutrients and sediment that has been polluting the bay. It only makes sense that to rectify the problem, our focus (and funding through state tax dollars) needs to be placed on correcting the source.sandstone wrote:I am not "dismissing" the pollution from Elk Run and Logan Spring Run. I am excluding them from the area of my discussion because I wish to emphasize the stream impacts of increasing urbanization that are made possible by the expansion of the STPs. The stream impacts of increasing urbanization are described in;skippy wrote: I do not think that nutrient and sediment loadings from Elk Run and Logan Spring Run can be dismissed simply because you feel they do not represent landcover serviced by the STPs. Both of these streams discharge the contaminates that you describe above within 1/2 mile of the Tyrone treatment plant site.
http://www.epa.gov/nps/facts/point7.htm
http://ga.water.usgs.gov/edu/urbanrun.html
http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2005/5103/SIR2 ... report.pdf
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:sy ... d=10&gl=us
http://209.85.165.104/search?q=cache:ap ... /nps_urban
As you stated in a previous post, development in the upper Little Juniata River watershed (which I described as "upstream of Ironville" - I should have just said upstream of the Tyrone STP), has been "stifled" by the lack of STP capacity. With increased capacity, development in the upper Little Juniata watershed (upstream of the Tyrone STP) will increase, resulting in a increasing frequency and severity of flooding, decreasing base flow, increasing water temperature, decreasing water dissolved oxygen, decreasing populations of pollution-sensitive macroinvertebrates, etc, as described in the articles referenced above.
In response to your above comment, I am uncertain what you would like to see accomplished. Are you proposing that we should have a moratorium on all development?