SRBC Proposes Rules
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best option, is set at 14 cents per
1,000 gallons consumed during the
entire year, not just during
drought
Despite possible cost increases,
agriculturalists and rural basin
residents may fare much better
than the non-farm sector.
Urban and city dwellers may
end up paying for their heavy
demand of water, because public
water suppliers, as well as large
companies, must also compensate.
The proposed package of rules
contains several exemptions and
allowances for agricultural uses of
water, but it tightens up regula
tions overall and sets a level of
water use by agricultural produc
ers beyond which those producers
must make a form of
compensation.
Also, the proposed rules allow
that agriculturalists who would
otherwise be required to make
some form of compensation for
water use are limited to make com
pensation of only SO percent of the
use. Other users must compensate
in full.
For about a year, the SRBC has
been working on developing new
rules that bring together several
separately approved regulations
and also address areas of concern
that previously had not been
included in as much detail.
Working with an agricultural
advisory committee, staff of the
SRBC drafted the proposed reg
ulations in an attempt to ease the
understanding and, perhaps the
implementation, of what it takes to
comply with the SRBC goal of
managing water resources within
the entire basin.
The advisory committee still
exists and expects to reconvene
sometime in June, according to
Dave Bingaman, who sat on the
board representing the state
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On Thursday, Bingaman was in
Ephrata at Henry B. Hoover Inc.,
helping with the Lancater County
portion of the state’s Plastic Pesti
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Bingaman said that he attended
the committee meeting for about a
year and that he hasn’t had an
opportunity to review the final
draft of the proposed SRBC rules,
but from what he could tell, the
commission made a lot of changes
for the benefit of agriculture, from
what the commission had first
proposed.
According to Bingaman, other
members of the committee include
hog producer Harlan Keener, poul
try producer Jim Espenshade;
potato producer Keith Masser;
New York agriculturalist Murray
Mehany; a representative from the
Maryland agriculture department;
Herb Brody, representing the Uni
versity of Maryland; seed com
producer Taylor Doebler Jr.; Kurt
Leitholf, who is executive director
of the Association of Conservation
Districts; and water specialist
Leon Ressler, with the Penn State
Extension Service.
There may be others who were
involved, but have not attended
since the time Bingaman began
attending, which was shortly after
the committee formed, he said.
The committee requested of the
commission five changes to the
rules proposal, Bingaman said.
In order for farmers to be allow
ed to include the last significant
drought year in their consumptive
records as part of an allowable use
during drought, the committee
asked that Dec. 31,1991 be used as
the cutoff for grandfathering.
In its approved proposal, the
commission has used January 23,
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water use, and it must be reasonab
ly documented, according to
Richard Cairo, SRBC general
counsel and secretary.
The committee also requested
(hat the commission continue to
waive the application fees and
monitoring fees for agriculture, as
has been the case. The commission
has granted a waiver for those fees
to farmers who use less than
100,000 gallons per day (they still
will be required to make compen
sation for half of what they
consume).
Bingaman said the commission
was “not totally consistent with
what we were asking, but closer
than it was. The concerns of the
(agriculture) secretary were for
new operations starting up and
needing water. This does allow
some consumptive use by new
operations.”
The committee also asked that
irrigation only be considered to be
8S percent "consumptive” in water
use. The commission has made it
100 percent
The committee requested sup
port of SRBC policies at the state
and federal level to encourage con
struction of water storage facilities
in the basin, such as building lakes
that could serve the consumptive
needs of several farms during a
drought To knowledge, there is
nothing in the regulations that
addresses that issue, but the com
mission may have other methods.
The ag committee also
requested that the commission
include municipalities in the basin,
and the city of Baltimore, as being
chargable with replacing con
sumed water during drought
Previously, the public water
sources were not considered,
because regulators viewed the con
sumption of individual people, not
the cumulative consumption tied
into a public water supply system.
The commission went along
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with that change.
According to Bingaman, the
commission has said that its prop
osed regulations may affect 100
farms in the basin.
“I think what we saw here over
the last number of months... on the
part of the SRBC is to take a posi
tion that is better for ag in Pennsyl
vania. Extending credit horn just
grandfathering farms in to where
new farms are going to be given
some credit for consumptive use is
positive,” Bingaman said.
While the possibility of an
added expense posed by the pass
ing of the regulations is real and
some may fight the commission
strongly, the commission is
responsible fra managing for a lar
ger issue than agricultural
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competitiveness.
The droughts during the 1980 s
increasingly brought about a gen
eral public cry for some type of
management in how water is used
within the basin.
Up until now, the management
of water by the state has been
almost nil.
According to the constitution of
Pennsylvania, all residents are
entitled to the right of clean air and
water, though how much water any
individual can take and not put
back had never previously been
seriously managed.
Given the task of creating reg
ulations to bring some kind of fair
ness and direction in the system of
water use, the SRBC has been
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