Media Advisory

Governor Martin O’Malley, along with the Secretaries of the Maryland Department of the Environment (MDE) and Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and the Director of the Maryland Environmental Service (MES), will host a discussion with elected officials and public works and planning staff from Maryland counties and Baltimore City to discuss innovative and cost-effective practices to manage stormwater runoff as part of the cooperative effort to restore the Chesapeake Bay and our local waterways.

Who

  • Martin O’Malley, Governor, State of Maryland;
  • Robert M. Summers, Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment;
  • John Griffin, Secretary, Maryland Department of Natural Resources;
  • James M. Harkins, Director, Maryland Environmental Service;
  • And 40 elected officials at the municipal and county level

When

Monday, March 4, 2013, 10 a.m.

Where

Miller Senate Building, 11 Bladen St., West 1 & 2

Why

State and local governments are working together in partnership to help reach our 2025 goals to meet the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Total Maximum Daily Load or “pollution diet” by following Maryland’s Watershed Implementation Plan. The plan is a proven science-based blueprint in place that outlines pollution reduction strategies needed to save the Bay and our rivers and streams. It is already helping us restore clean water. This discussion is a forum for highlighting innovative cost-efficient stormwater management projects, which local governments can get credit for in the Plan and will help to reach our statewide goals.

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