City of Baltimore - File #: 17-0028R

• File #: 17-0028R
• Version: 0
• Name: Informational Hearing - Watershed Protection and Restoration Efforts
• Type: City Council Resolution
• Status: Withdrawn
• File created: 6/12/2017
• In control: City Council
• Final action: 6/25/2018
• Title: Informational Hearing - Watershed Protection and Restoration Efforts For the purpose of calling on representatives from the Department of Public Works to appear before the City Council to discuss the annual MS4 report and the City’s progress towards improving the health of Baltimore’s waterways.
• Sponsors: Leon F. Pinkett, III, President Young, Zeke Cohen, Sharon Green Middleton, Robert Stokes, Sr., Ryan Dorsey, Kristerfer Burnett, Shannon Sneed, Bill Henry, Mary Pat Clarke, Edward Reisinger, Brandon M. Scott, John T. Bullock, Eric T. Costello, Isaac "Yitzy" Schleifer
• Indexes: Informational Hearing, Protection, Restorations, Watershed

Date	Ver.	Action By	Action	Result
6/25/2018	0	City Council	Withdrawn
6/15/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Public Works
6/15/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Housing and Community Development
6/15/2017	0	The City Council	Refer to Dept. of Transportation
6/12/2017	0	City Council	Assigned
6/12/2017	0	City Council	Introduced

* Warning: This is an unofficial, introductory copy of the bill.
The official copy considered by the City Council is the first reader copy.
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City of Baltimore
Council Bill R
(Resolution)

Introduced by: Councilmember Pinkett

A Resolution Entitled

A Council Resolution concerning
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Informational Hearing - Watershed Protection and Restoration Efforts
For the purpose of calling on representatives from the Department of Public Works to appear before the City Council to discuss the annual MS4 report and the City’s progress towards improving the health of Baltimore’s waterways.
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Recitals

Under the terms of its discharge permit with the Maryland Department of the Environment the City must manage, implement, and enforce a stormwater management program in accordance with the Clean Water Act and its implementing regulations to restrict discharges of pollutants through Baltimore’s municipal separate storm sewer system (MS4) into the 5 watersheds within the City that feed into the Chesapeake Bay.

Each of the City’s watersheds - Back River, Baltimore Harbor, Jones Falls, Gwynns Falls and the Lower North Branch of the Patapsco River - are currently listed as impaired by pollutants in one or more ways. Therefore, the City’s MS4 permit requires the City to take action to reduce the impervious area in each watershed by the equivalent of 20% to improve the health of our waterways and the Bay that they feed into.

Baltimore’s watershed protection and restoration efforts are primarily funded by the City’s State-authorized stormwater restoration fee, with some additional funding provided through both the water & wastewater utility and the General Fund. Together, the City planned to spend roughl...