Environment

Chair: Nathalie Valette-Silver

Click Here for Important Lyme Disease Resources

Click for US Government Preparedness Checklist Document

Click for www.ready.gov

Take the Cool Capital Challenge to reduce emissions - click here

Stewardship of our surrounding natural resources is the primary goal of this committee. These goals include reducing pollution and improving the ambient air quality, protecting our waters, and saving our native trees.

Within the scope of the above-stated goals, our community has identified immediate areas of concern: mosquito control, preservation of our natural tree canopy, vehicle emission air pollution, and maintaining the natural beauty of our neighborhood.

The WSSC Bi-County Water Tunnel is currently in the design phase and should be ready for bid in Spring 2008. Construction will start July 2008 through July 2012 with starts and stops along the proposed tunnel as appropriate to the construction.

WSSC has received a verbal approvement to access the Tuckerman Lane Shaft (S1) from Tuckerman Road for heavy construction equipment and Old Club Court for other construction traffic.

For additional information, please go to the WSSC website, www.wsscwater.com and click on the Bi-County Water Tunnel logo on the left side of the homepage. Questions, contact Mike McGill, Public Affairs Coordinator at WSSC at (301) 206-8141.

For more info about WSSC project click here

WSSC Tilden Lane water main updates (includes interruptions to service notices): http://www.wsscwater.com/home/jsp/content/bi-county-index.faces

The Impact of Washing Cars

Few of us think a lot about the impact on our streams and the Chesapeake Bay that our everyday activities have, though there has been increasing publicity about the damage that excess nitrogen and phosphorus from lawn fertilizers pose. Here’s a link to a short piece that was published in Seattle about the impact of home car washing. The solution? Get your car washed at a commercial site to avoid the runoff of grime and soap making its way into the watershed untreated. Read about it at: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/lifestyle/334679_consumer09.html.- Barbara Blaylock

Mosquito Control: Please click on the attached neighborhood map and identify havens for mosquitoes. These may include ponds, wooded areas or standing water. Please forward specific details and the map to Peggy Souza (address in neighborhood directory).

Air Quality & Trees: The Montgomery County Air Quality Protection Strategy (2003) includes a strategy to “ increase tree canopy and forest cover…” to decrease air pollutants. See Watershed Protection: Protection of water quality through land protection and sound land use practices. Volunteers to paint “Chesapeake Watershed” on our drains are needed. This could be a possible Student Service Learning hours project.

Potomac Basin Watershed Map - PDF version

WEBSITE LINKS:

Montgomery County Home page: http://www.montgomerycountymd.gov/

Potomac Conservancy: http://www.potomac.org/site/

The Climate Project: http://www.theclimateproject.org/

Storm water Database: http://www.bmpdatabase.org/

Report from October 2007 General Meeting

Archived Reports: October 2007 Monthly Report


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