{"id":31464,"date":"2020-09-29T13:11:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:11:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=31464"},"modified":"2020-09-29T13:11:42","modified_gmt":"2020-09-29T17:11:42","slug":"anne-arundel-county-no-discharge-zone-receives-tentative-epa-approval","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/09\/29\/anne-arundel-county-no-discharge-zone-receives-tentative-epa-approval\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Arundel County No Discharge Zone Receives Tentative EPA Approval"},"content":{"rendered":"

Public Comments Accepted until Oct. 23<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

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View of South River, Anne Arundel County<\/p><\/div>\n

The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reviewed and tentatively approved a <\/span>No Discharge Zone<\/span><\/a> (NDZ) for Anne Arundel County waters. The application approval has been entered in the <\/span>Federal Register<\/span><\/a> and a<\/span> public comment period is now underway<\/span><\/a> until Oct. 23.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

DNR and the Maryland Department of Environment applied to the EPA for this important protection of Anne Arundel County waters in May 2020. A No Discharge Zone is an area of water where the discharge of all boat sewage–including waste treated by certified onboard Type I or II marine sanitation devices — is prohibited. Discharge of raw or untreated sewage is already prohibited anywhere within three-miles of the U.S. Coast.<\/span><\/p>\n

Type I and II marine sanitation devices treat waste to set standards and kill pathogens before discharging the remaining effluent overboard. Most recreational boats have installed holding tanks — Type III marine sanitation devices– and can empty them at one of more than 350 pumpout stations across the state. Boats with Type I or II marine sanitation devices can operate in No Discharge Zones provided the toilet — or head — is disabled while doing so.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Maryland sought NDZ designation for these waters due to a high concentration of boats, the presence of resources sensitive to boat sewage, a prevalence of water contact activities, and strong local support for added protection\u200b.<\/span><\/p>\n

More information about pumpouts and No Discharge Zones in Maryland is available on the <\/span>DNR website<\/span><\/a>. To report an inoperable pumpout station, citizens should email <\/span>pumpout@dnr.state.md.us<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Public Comments Accepted until Oct. 23 The Maryland Department of Natural Resources (DNR) announced that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has reviewed and tentatively approved a No Discharge Zone (NDZ) for Anne Arundel County waters. The application approval has been entered in the Federal Register and a public comment period is now underway until  Read the Rest…<\/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":[957,3171,33],"tags":[2971,3197,3605,3153,3448],"class_list":["post-31464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-boating","category-the-bay","tag-anne-arundel-county","tag-boating","tag-maryland-department-of-environment","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency","tag-water-quality"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464","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=31464"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31471,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31464\/revisions\/31471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}