Local VA watersheds TotalMaxDailyLoad(TMDL) 'diet' planning continues despite challenges

 

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Leslie Middleton, the executive director of the Rivanna River Basin Commission, said individuals can play a role by voluntarily making choices to have a smaller footprint.

“Our choice of fertilizers, our choice of how much lawn to have, our choice of how to build our driveways, all of those kinds of things are very important,” Middleton said.

Parrish said efforts to reduce pollution have been working. In 1985, 102 million pounds of nitrogen made its way into the bay. By 2008, that number had fallen to 72.8 million pounds.

“The bad news is that we have to make almost that much of a reduction again to get to where we need to be for the bay to be restored...”