Tell Your Legislators You Want the County to Clean Up Stormwater - Send a Letter to the County Council and County Executive

Every few years a window of opportunity presents itself in the ongoing process of bringing back our rivers and the Bay.  In early 2007, the County Council came up one vote shy of being able to pass a local stormwater utility – a dedicated source of tens of millions of dollars per year to repair the damage done to our waterways by uncontrolled stormwater pollution.  Nearly five years later, a new council has introduced a new bill, and a broad coalition of partners, from homebuilders to the Annapolis and Anne Arundel Chamber of Commerce, as well as a coalition of environmental groups from Brooklyn Park to Herring Bay have stepped up to offer support.

We are now presented with that window of opportunity.   Will we again let the Council and County Executive punt their clean water responsibilities down the road or are we ready to hold them accountable and let them know early and often that now is the time to get this important legislation passed?  If you do nothing else for the South River and the Chesapeake Bay before the end of 2011, please contact your councilman and the County Executive and ask them to pass the Stormwater Management and Restoration Fund, Bill 79-11.

Realizing this opportunity is, in my estimation, the greatest gift we can give our waterways and sets us on a course to make a cascade of very good things happen over the next several years, opening more windows and re-vitalizing our rivers.  Please contact your County Councilman and the County Executive and ask them to support this important bill.

Please either send the letter below, or personalize it as you see fit, and send it off to our local legislators on behalf of a cleaner South River and Chesapeake Bay.

   
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County Executive John Leopold
Councilman Daryl Jones, District 1
Councilman John Grasso, District 2
Councilman Derek Fink, District 3
Councilman James Benoit, District 4
Councilman Dick Ladd, District 5
Councilman Chris Trumbauer, District 6
Councilman Jerry Walker, District 7

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Background on the Watershed Restoration Fund:
The Anne Arundel County Department of Public Works has estimated that the outstanding stormwater impacts to our waterways top $1 billion. Stormwater continues to be the major cause of pollution to the South River. The Federation has been keeping the pressure on the County to create a SMART Fund, a dedicated source of restoration dollars for stormwater-related damage caused to our streams, creeks and rivers.