D2o—Lancaster Fuming, Saturday, June 21,1950 Hearings on storm water HARRISBURG - If you noticed in last week’s Lancaster Farming, Al 5 the Department of En vironmental Resources has scheduled two public hearings on storm water management. Are these hearings im portant enough for farmers to take tune out of their busy schedules to attend? According to Khervin Smith, chief of Advisory Services Section in the Division of Storm Water Management, these hearings are important for any person residing in the Commonwealth. What the hearings are designed to do, he said, is to take down public comment on what the state has proposed in the line of storm water management watersheds. Smith explained that Act 167, the Storm Water Management Act of 1978, required DER to define the This farm visitation ANNAPOLIS Md - Maryland’s annual Farm Visitation Day this year will be run on two dates for the first time in its fourteen-year history. The traditional early summer date is Sunday, June 22 at 17 participating farms in nine counties. Three farms in western Maryland’s Washington county will be involved in an early-fall Farm Visitation Day on the first Sunday in September, Sept. 7. Open house hours on both days will run from 1 to 5 p.m. Many of the host farms will offer light refreshments, with cold milk a likely prospect at participating dairy farms. Intended to give urban families a close look at their farm neighbors. Farm Visitation Day is sponsored each year by the University of Maryland’s Cooperative Extension Service in cooperation with all major farm organizations I RICHLAND RDI Pennsylvania 17087 I Name ( Address t Town state’s watershed areas in order to assist counties m developing a management plan. Now that their task is accomplished, dividing the state into 386 watershed areas, DER is asking the public if they are happy with the divisions and if there are any changes needed. How do you know where the state has drawn the line in defining the watershed areas? Smith explained his department has provided maps of the areas to each county. They should be available at the county commissioners’ offices, county planning commission offices, and local con servation district offices. Will Act 167 affect the farming community? Ac cording to Smith, the storm water policies of the state include agriculture. However he pointed out that if a farmer is following good conservation practices and erosion and <spdmj»nt?t>nn Sunday is Locations for this Sun day’s Farm Visitation Day are scattered from the mountain foothills of Frederick county to the flatlands of the Eastern Shore. Directions and descrip tions of all participating farms are listed in a free Farm Visitation Day brochure, titled “A Family Affair” (Leaflet 86). The leaflet is available from offices of the Extension Service and from public or remodel an old one you owe it to yourself to know the Facts of Life about long lasting easy-rolling sliding doors Free booKlet compares round Cannon Ball track to ordinary box track Tells how famous Cannon Ball track and hangers team-up with new Cannon Gnd-15 all-aluminum door OAKLAND RD2, Maryland 21550 j State control, the present con servation plan should suf fice. Once the watershed designations are adopted by the counties, the processes for setting the criteria and standards for storm water runoff control in the watershed will be set m motion. Smith noted the legislation does not provide for any financial assistance to local farmers in implementing storm water management practice. “It provides financial bookkeeping reimbursement to the counties only.” The two hearings are scheduled for June 24 and 26, with the locations strategically set in Dußois and Reading, respectively. Smith said the locations were picked in areas where there hasn’t been much input into the watershed designations. “We expect the Dußois Md. day libraries m the participating counties Anne Arundel, Baltimore, Calvert, Charles, Frederick, Harford, Howard, Montgomery and Queen Annes. Additional information is available from the office of Roy Porter, extension -coordinator of special communications at the University of Maryland in College Park His telephone number, during weekday office hours, is 301/454-3712 or 454-4064. GIGANTIC SELECTION IN Lancaster Farming's CLASSIFIEDS Zip _ wiU affect ag community meeting to take care of those people in the western part of the state, although either hearing is open to anyone. “We chose Reading for the other hearing because in the Southeast we’ve heard from almost everyone but Berks County. It will give them more opportunity to com ment when the hearing is in their county.” The hearings. Smith add ed, are an input procedure to provide people with the opportunity to comment on “what they want to see as far as storm wate- management is concerned.” It will help CUSTOM BUILT HAY WAGONS ★ BUILT FROM SOLID OAK ★ OUTSIDE CALF HUTCHES With Metal Roofs And Feeders • Painted and Creosoted FOR ADDITIONAL INFORMATION WRITE OR CALL STOLTZFUS WOODWORK them in identifying what needs to be considered when developing land use plans. Smith explained the comments made at the public hearings will be given to the Environmental Quality Board on July 15 for any recommended changes in the DER watershed index. “If a county looks at the watershed map and finds the DER divisions are not useful, there is a possibility the index for that county might be thrown out. We’U certainly discuss the situation. And if the recommended changes are * ■<’ RD 2, Box 2280. Gap, PA 17527 For more information or to provide public comment prior to the meeting, contact Gilbert E. Kyle, director, DER Bureau of Dams and Waterway Management, Box 2357, Harrisburg, PA 17120, telephone 717/783-1384. -SM reasonable, they will probably be made. The hearings will be held on Penn State community campuses in both Dußois and Reading. On both June 24 and 26, the sessions will feature an afternoon and evening meeting beginning at Ip.m. and 7 p.m.
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