Re-plumbing the Chesapeake Watershed: Improving roadside ditch management to meet TMDL water quality goals
October 9, 2014 - October 10, 2014Easton, MD
Workshop Objectives:
- Share recent scientific assessments of regional surface water quality impacts from ditches alongside low-volume, rural roads;
- Review CBP accepted best management practices to mitigate impacts from roadside ditches and explore novel approaches to treating road runoff;
- Outline additional policy and research and monitoring needs to enhance rural roadside ditch management; and
- Establish a communications network for professionals, including decision-makers, practitioners, and scientists, engaged in building better ditch management across the Bay Watershed.