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2006 Water Quality Improvement Fund Grant Awards -
Chesapeake Bay Watershed
The Water Quality Improvement Fund (WQIF) grant awards are intended to reduce pollution through partnerships with local governments, community groups and others. The grants focus on implementing Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Tributary Strategies as well as improving waters throughout Virginia that do not meet water quality standards (TMDL waters). Grants are awarded for projects within the Chesapeake Bay watershed as well as watersheds in Virginia that drain outside the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the “Southern Rivers.” These awards were made to support two WQIF: Cooperative Nonpoint Source Pollution Programs with Local Governments and Strategic Nonpoint Source Water Quality Initiatives. For additional details contact Sarah Capps.
A partial list of projects is shown below. The entire list can be found here.
Cooperative Nonpoint Source Programs With Localities
Caroline County. Dawn Decentralized Wastewater Treatment / Septic Connection. At least 152 individual septic systems will be replaced with a County owned and operated alternative wastewater system. The pumps at each individual structure being connected will transmit wastewater into a low-pressure collection system and then to a treatment facility. The final disposal of treated water is through a dispersal field designed for nutrient removal to less than 5 mg/l at the disposal field and 0 mg/l at the adjoining property line. This project will address over 12% of the York River Tributary Strategy septic connection goal. The project will benefit the fecal TMDL impairment to Reedy Creek. Estimated annual nitrogen reduced is 2700 pounds. $200,000 WQIF / $1,436,000 Match. Eldon James & Sue Rowland Presentation from November 1, 2007 Summit
James City County. Community Conservation Partnership Incentive Program. Thirty residential neighborhoods in James City County will be targeted for a pilot cost share program to implement urban BMPs prescribed in the James City County Input Deck for the James River & York River Tributary Strategies. A protocol will be developed for evaluating urban BMP cost effectiveness. The Colonial Soil & Water Conservation District will be a primary partner in the project and will be responsible for administering the cost share assistance applications and incentive payments to homeowner’s associations. Cost share funds will be awarded for up to 50% of the total eligible costs including engineering designs, consultant fees, construction materials, and labor. $150,000 WQIF / $150,000 Match. Brian Noyes Presentation from November 1, 2007 Summit
Town of Orange. Comprehensive Watershed Management Program for the Town of Orange. This long term project aims to prioritize the Town watersheds, establish a stormwater program with a dedicated funding source, develop a conservation-based master plan, create conservation based zoning and subdivision codes, inventory BMPs and illicit discharges, and construct the Miller Creek watershed stormwater facilities. Implementation activities in the first phase include reconstruction of the floodplain and stream banks in the immediate area below Spicer’s Mill Road. Estimated NPS reductions include 23,817 pounds of nitrogen, 4620 pounds phosphorus, and 4366 pounds of sediment. $142,000 WQIF / $142,000 Match.
Strategic Nonpoint Source Water Quality Initiatives
Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Sarah Creek Watershed Nonpoint Source Water Quality Partnership. A comprehensive watershed restoration and outreach project designed to education homeowners and landowners on techniques to reduce NPS pollution in Sarah Creek watershed will be implemented in partnership with Gloucester County, Tidewater SWCD, and the USDA NRCS. Erosion, nutrient, and fecal matter inputs to the impaired Sarah Creek will be reduced with cost share provided for the installation of 10 riparian buffer areas and for pumping of 175 septic systems. Using Bay model BMP efficiencies this project will remove 231 pounds of nitrogen and 38 pounds of phosphorus. $52,000 WQIF / $53,131 Match.
Middle Peninsula PDC. Middle Peninsula Regional On-Site Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Funding Program. Financial assistance will be offered in combination with loan funds for the repair of failing septic systems within the Middle Peninsula. This program offers an affordable repair solution to low- to moderate- income clients. Many repairs require secondary treatment and have an average $12,000 in repair costs. WQIF funding will be used for systems that remove more nitrogen than conventional systems. This project will contribute to addressing fecal coliform TMDL impairments to several streams in the Middle Peninsula. Between eight and fifteen systems will be repaired or replaced. $100,000 WQIF / $100,000 Match.
2007 Projects
Caroline County
Dawn Decentralized Wastewater Treatment / Septic Replacement; Septic Pumpout Program
Two proposals submitted to WQIF from Caroline County are combined into one award. A Fixed Film Activated Sludge (FAST) alternative wastewater treatment cluster system including individual STEP tanks at each home will be installed to replace 28 failing septic systems (27 homes and one church) in the Dawn Community of Caroline County. This project expands on a FY2006 WQIF grant award and a larger County initiative, which aims to replace of more than 180 individual septic systems experiencing severe drainfield problems with a system that will be owned and operated by the County. The Dawn Community is located at the divide between several creeks feeding both the Mattaponi and Pamunkey Rivers. This project will help to address the fecal coliform impairments for two of the feeder creeks, Reedy Creek and Herring Creek. Calculations from the project’s engineer estimate annual NPS reductions of 5,229 lbs of nitrogen and 2,051 lbs of phosphorus for the 28 new systems being connected.
Caroline County will establish and implement its septic pump out maintenance program including development of a methodology to notify property owners, further evolution of the BMP tracking and maintenance program, and increased awareness of the program requirements promoted to the public, in an effort to bring the county program into compliance with requirements of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act. Approximately 1500 septic systems will be pumped out annually. $200,000 WQIF, $200,000 Match
County of Mathews
Countywide Notification & Tracking of Septic Pumpout Program
In order to ensure current and future compliance with the septic maintenance requirements of the Chesapeake Bay Preservation Act, the County of Matthews will establish a system to document the location of septic systems and to track compliance with the septic maintenance requirements. The project is targeting 1,000 households per year for meeting the program requirements based on an estimated 5,000 homes for which the septic system maintenance applies. $25,000 WQIF, $25,000 Match
Middle Peninsula PDC
Middle Peninsula Regional Onsite Wastewater Treatment and Disposal Funding Phase II
The Middle Peninsula PDC will provide financial assistance to 10-13 homeowners to repair or replace failing septic systems. The project aims to repair or replace 5-6 septic systems with properly functioning conventional systems, and to replace 6-7 failed septic systems with properly functioning alternative systems where soil conditions require alternative systems. This project will target septic system replacement and repairs in impaired stream segments of the Middle Peninsula including the Counties of Gloucester, Essex, King and Queen, King William, Mathews and Middlesex and the Towns of Tappahannock, Urbanna and West Point. The project will reduce an estimated 58.8 lbs of nitrogen and 5.2E+11 fecal colony forming units. $80,000 WQIF, $80,000 Match
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