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On the agricultural aide, implementation action* wilt focus on excluding livestock from streams by fencing, development of planted buffer urnw along streams, and installation of alternative watering systems for livestock, such as ponds, springs and wells.
The clean-up effort will rely on voluntary compliance by homeowners and formers and others, aided by various state and federal programs that pay at least part of the costs of fixing residential septic systems or steps by livestock raisers to keep animals out of streams, officials said.
“We need to get livestock out of the streams," said Charlie Lunsford of die Virginia tfopartment of' Conservation and Recreation in Richmond. He was asked if the voluntary clean-up program might someday become mandatory-requiring farmers to fence livestock out of streams. He replied that the program now relies on encouragement and incentives to farmers, but that efforts to clean up the Chesupeuke Bay watershed might change that. “Who knows where the regulatory hammer may go?* he asked, suggesting that some mandatory steps my eventually be required.
The next meeting on developing the streams clean up plan will be held Nov. 18. officials stud, with a goal of fiiushing a plan by next March.
For more information, contact Deirdre Clark of the Rappahannock-Rapidan Regional Commission at 1540> 8139-7450 (.e-mail to dbclark4iPrrrvgion.org > or Marv l Aiuise Sligh of Virginia OCR at 443-1494 temail to may.sligh4*kfcr.virgimn.gov>.
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