Fairfax County and the
Virginia Department of
Transportation (VDOT) have filed a lawsuit against the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) challenging new federal rules
related to stormwater runoff in Fairfax County.
The suit was filed today in U.S. District Court for the Eastern
District of Virginia, Alexandria Division. It challenges the EPA’s
recently established rule governing Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
limits for Accotink Creek. The county believes the proposed TMDL
limits on stormwater flow provide no reasonable assurance that targets
can be attained or that they will correct the underlying problem. Left
unchallenged, EPA’s new stormwater rule will require Fairfax County to
sharply and substantially reduce all stormwater runoff across the
Accotink Creek watershed.
“Fairfax County has demonstrated a strong and unwavering commitment to
water quality and environmental stewardship during the last six decades,”
says Board of Supervisors Chairman Sharon Bulova. “We are absolutely
committed to maintaining and improving, water quality in Fairfax County
and the Chesapeake Bay. However, we believe that regulations,
whether federally or state imposed, must effectively address the targeted
problem and be fiscally sound and realistic.”
READ MORE: http://www.fairfaxcounty.gov/news/2012/updates/fairfax-sues-epa-to-challenge-stormwater-rule.htm
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