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Info session held on changes to state’s stormwater runoff rules

More than three dozen people attended a stormwater information session Oct. 24 in the colonial courthouse at Gloucester Court House.

Scott Rae, Gloucester’s environmental programs administrator spoke, as did Kevin Landry of the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality.

Rae said the program, which lasted almost 2½ hours, was held to inform interested persons in the area about recent program changes in Virginia regulation of rainfall runoff and water-borne pollution. Virginia law now requires Gloucester County to enforce stormwater runoff on construction of residential and commercial development.

Gloucester must develop a stormwater program for review by state DEQ officials, Rae said, and this program will result in a new county ordinance to address stormwater to be implemented by July 2014.

Construction projects currently meet the stormwater laws through the DEQ process, Rae said. But the legislation recently passed down from state lawmakers will result in cou...

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