{"id":703,"date":"2010-11-02T08:17:01","date_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/unionvilletimes.com\/?p=703"},"modified":"2010-11-02T08:19:55","modified_gmt":"2010-11-02T12:19:55","slug":"e-marlborough-says-%e2%80%98not-yet%e2%80%99-to-bva-sediment-effort-birmingham-says-%e2%80%98no%e2%80%99","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=703","title":{"rendered":"E. Marlborough says \u2018not yet\u2019 to BVA sediment effort, Birmingham says \u2018no\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lack of state DEP support for regional effort cited, concerns about spending<\/span>
\nBy Mike McGann<\/strong>, Editor, UnionvilleTImes.com<\/em><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The Christina Basin<\/p><\/div>\n

EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 At least two local towns are in no rush to join the Brandywine Valley Association\u2019s attempt to regionalize efforts to meet increasingly tougher standards by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to limit sediment and other discharge into local water ways.<\/p>\n

While Birmingham totally rejected the idea last week, East Marlborough isn\u2019t going to be rushing into any agreement at this point. A couple of the sticking points: concerns that required monthly meetings would prove costly \u2014 especially if Township Engineer Jim Hatfield is required to attend and the lack of formal endorsement by the state Department of Environmental Protection.<\/p>\n

Township Manager Jane Laslo said she declined to have BVA\u2019s Jane Fava come and make a presentation to the Board of Supervisors Monday night, because while she initially liked the concept, the more she read on it, the more concerns popped up.<\/p>\n

\u201cInitially, I was swayed by it,\u201d she said of the proposal. \u201cBut the more I read, the more I wonder about it.\u201d<\/p>\n

As the discussion continued, supervisors appeared to agree.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s premature,\u201d Supervisors chair Cuyler Walker said. \u201cWhen we know more…maybe. We\u2019re not prepared to start a process without knowing more. But we\u2019d certainly like to talk more.\u201d<\/p>\n

Supervisors acknowledge that they will have to cope with this issue at some point, with a number of storm water retention basins \u2014 currently under control of local homeowner associations, not to mention some responsibilities for runoff from U.S. 1, but the lack of commitment by the DEP to BVA\u2019s approach at this point makes them want to wait and study it more.<\/p>\n

More than a dozen local towns have agreed, Fava said, either in principle or by formal vote, as Pocopson has, to join the effort, including Honey Brook, London Grove, East and West Brandywine and East and West Bradford. She said the goal is to get 20 to 25 of the 40 towns hit by the EPA standards to join the effort.<\/p>\n

Fava, who coordinates the Red Streams Blue program for the BVA, told supervisors Monday night that EPA is going to force local towns to address the issue \u2014 a challenge in a state like Pennsylvania, with limited regional management resources. Without working together, Fava said, it would be very difficult for local towns to meet their EPA requires to cut sediment discharge into local streams.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lack of state DEP support for regional effort cited, concerns about spending By Mike McGann, Editor, UnionvilleTImes.com EAST MARLBOROUGH \u2014 At least two local towns are in no rush to join the Brandywine Valley Association\u2019s attempt to regionalize efforts to meet increasingly tougher standards by the federal Environmental Protection Agency to limit sediment and other […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":710,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,7],"tags":[15,51,38,24],"class_list":["post-703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-featured","tag-birmingham","tag-dep","tag-east-marlborough","tag-unionville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/710"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}