> Subject: News release: Maryland water quality
> officials to visit Iowa  IOWA CLASSES
> CONVENED FOR MARYLAND WATER QUALITY LESSONSThree Maryland
> officials will visit Iowa to discuss progress toward clean
> water goals in the Chesapeake Bay.Lessons learned in
> that six-state watershed that may be helpful to Iowa will be
> the topic of a public presentation set for Monday, April 13,
> sponsored by State Rep. Chuck Isenhart (D-Dubuque) and the
> Drake Agricultural Law Center.The 6:30 p.m.
> meeting will be in Room 213, Cartwright Hall, 2621 Carpenter
> Ave. on the Drake University campus in Des Moines.Speaking will be
> Sarah Lane, Dave Nemazie and Tom Simpson.Lane is senior
> faculty research assistant at the University of Maryland
> Center for Environmental Science, currently assigned to the
> Maryland Department of Natural Resources.Simpson is principal
> at Aqua-Terra Science, having recently retired as president
> and senior scientist of Water Stewardship, a non-profit
> organization focused on verified continuous improvement in
> agricultural water quality.Nemazie is associate
> vice-president for external affairs at the University of
> Maryland Center for Environmental Science.Isenhart is ranking
> member on the Environmental Protection Committee in the Iowa
> House of Representatives and serves on the state’s
> Watershed Planning Advisory Council. Last July, he spent a
> day at the Maryland Department of Natural Resources in
> Annapolis, learning about the Chesapeake Bay program and
> touring conservation projects.“The main takeaway
> from my sojourn was that both collaboration and
> accountability in improving water quality are possible when
> people decide that participation is not optional,”
> Isenhart said. “Marylanders are not just involved; they
> are committed.“One reason for that is that the Chesapeake Bay
> is in their own backyard, not 1,000 miles downriver like the
> Gulf of Mexico is for us. Maryland has been spoiling their
> own nest, and they know that no white knight is going to
> ride to the rescue,” Isenhart continued. “I was
> impressed by their goal-setting,  public investment,
> progress measurement and public reporting. Those are some of
> the topics we want to address. Maryland has shown that it
> can be done.”While in Iowa, the Maryland delegation will speak
> to the Measures of Success Committee of the Water Resources
> Coordinating Council, 2 p.m. on April 13 in conference room
> one of the Wallace Building, 502 East 9th St., Des
> Moines.They
> will also address state legislators at the Capitol, 8 a.m.,
> Tuesday, April 14, in Room 116.The Measures of
> Success Committee chaired by John Lawrence of Iowa State
> University is charged with developing a plan to track the
> performance of the state “nutrient reduction strategy.”
> The plan to
> reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution in Iowa waterways
> by 45 percent was created in 2013 by the Department of
> Agriculture and Land Stewardship and the Department of
> Natural Resources, at the direction of the U.S.
> Environmental Protection Agency. The interim goal set by the
> Gulf Hypoxia Task Force is a 20 percent reduction by 2025.
> The multi-state task force is co-chaired by Iowa’s
> Secretary of Agriculture, Bill Northey.Topics to be covered
> in the April 13-14 meetings include:1.     
> Development and application of online tools
> to report Chesapeake Bay restoration progress in
> Maryland;2.     
> The role of universities in advising
> governments in policy development and tracking nutrient
> reductions;3.     
> Creation and use of environmental health
> report cards;4.     
> Development of stream-specific pollution
> reduction goals and watershed implementation
> plans;5.     
> Defining, estimating the effectiveness of and
> verifying best management practices;6.     
> Approval and tracking of agricultural
> conservation efforts; 7.     
> Public-private partnerships to develop and
> apply innovative water quality improvement
> methods;8.     
> Factors affecting pollution flowing from
> agricultural lands;9.     
> Developing whole farm and watershed
> strategies to reduce nutrient losses. Further
> biographical information and curricula vitae for Lane,
> Nemazie and Simpson attached.Chuck Isenhart
> State Representative, House District 100
> Ranking Member, Environmental Protection Committee
> Member: Economic Growth Committee, Ways and Means Committee,
> Appropriations Subcommittee for Agriculture/Natural
> Resources/Environmental ProtectionLiaison: Watershed Planning Advisory
> Council, Iowa Innovation Council
> P.O. Box 3353
> Dubuque, IA 52004-3353
> In district: 563-557-1261In Des Moines: 515-281-3221
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