19821214 r-82-38RESOLUTION NO. R-82-38
RESOLUTION CONCERNING THE POTOMAC EMBAYMENT STANDARDS
WHEREAS, the State Water Control Board adopted the Potomac Embayment
Standards in 1972 as discharge standards applicable to all Northern Virginia juris-
dictional wastewater treatment plants discharging into Potomac River embayments
from Hunting Creek to the Route 301 Bridge, and
WHEREAS, the State Water Control Board, recognizing the questionable va-
lidity and cost effectiveness of these standards, initiated action to restudy the
Potomac Embayment Standards in 1978, and
WHEREAS, it has been generally recognized by the Environmental Protection
Agency, the State Water Control Board, and the scientific community that there has
been significant improvement in water quality of the Potomac River and embay-
ments over the past five to ten years, and
WHEREAS, all of the jurisdictions in the Potomac Embayment Standard areas
have expressed their concern over the high capital and operating costs required to
meet the stringent embayment standards and have questioned the cost effectiveness
and water quality benefits of achieving these standards, and
WHEREAS, all of the Northern Virginia jurisdictions are concerned with envi-
ronmental protection and are supportive of maintaining high water quality of our
waterways, and
WHEREAS, it is the collective opinion of the Northern Virginia jurisdictions
that environmental protection of our waterways can be maintained to a high degree
on a more cost effective/benefit related basis than the current Potomac Embayment
Standards require, and
THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED by the City of Fairfax, Virginia, that we here-
by support the State Water Control Board's action to restudy the Potomac
Embayment Standards and to provide interim effluent limitations during the study
until permanent more cost effective/water quality benefit related standards
are developed.
Adopted this 14 day of December, 1982 .
ATTEST:
0City 01erk '