{"id":26821,"date":"2019-04-12T16:38:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:38:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=26821"},"modified":"2019-04-12T16:38:44","modified_gmt":"2019-04-12T20:38:44","slug":"maryland-releases-draft-chesapeake-bay-restoration-plan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/12\/maryland-releases-draft-chesapeake-bay-restoration-plan\/","title":{"rendered":"Maryland Releases Draft Chesapeake Bay Restoration Plan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Public invited to comment on draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan<\/em><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 360px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/5574\/15270511606_d21a3a4723.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Chesapeake Bay at sunrise\" width=\"350\" height=\"232\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by James Phelps<\/p><\/div>\n<p>A draft plan for continued progress in restoring Maryland\u2019s portion of the Chesapeake Bay is now available for public review and comment.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/mde.maryland.gov\/programs\/Water\/TMDL\/TMDLImplementation\/Pages\/Phase3WIP.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan<\/a> represents the next step in Maryland meeting its commitments as part of a multi-state bay restoration effort. Maryland developed the draft plan to meet targets by 2025 using a locally driven, stakeholder process to identify achievable pollution reduction strategies that balance responsibilities across wastewater treatment plants, urban stormwater runoff, septic systems and farms. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/mde\/2019\/04\/12\/maryland-releases-draft-chesapeake-bay-restoration-plan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Public invited to comment on draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan A draft plan for continued progress in restoring Maryland\u2019s portion of the Chesapeake Bay is now available for public review and comment. The draft Phase III Watershed Implementation Plan represents the next step in Maryland meeting its commitments as part of a multi-state bay<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2019\/04\/12\/maryland-releases-draft-chesapeake-bay-restoration-plan\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[2982,2952,3542,3025],"class_list":["post-26821","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-larry-hogan","tag-maryland-department-of-agriculture","tag-maryland-department-of-the-environment"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26821"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26824,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26821\/revisions\/26824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26821"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26821"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26821"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}