Best Management Practices for Urban Areas to Manage Phosphorus

Policy, Programs & Legislation Review

HESL McMaster

Richard Nesbitt, M.Sc.Neil Hutchinson, Ph.D

Bev Clark

Gail Krantzberg, Ph.D.Savitri Jetoo, Ph.D. Candidate

Lake Erie Land and Water - Clarifying the Urban - Eutrophication Linkage

LEMN Research Needs Workshop 4.5March 21, 2013.

The PPL Summary Table

PPL Category

Program Description

Policy or Program Agency

Regulatory/ Voluntary

Actors/ Audience

Region (geographic)

Effectiveness/ Assessment of

success

Science Monitoring

components in place?

Overview for table 4

Opportunities, Challenges or

Gaps for Future Action, etc

Reference

Urban Sanitary

Urban Stormwater

Residential Unsewered

Urban Non-Point Sources

Watershed Non-Point Sources

Combined Sewer Overflow

Urban Fertilizers and detritus

Low Impact Development

Canada

US

Other Great Lakes Watersheds

Identified Gaps in PPLs

Monitoring Funding

Combined sewer overflow Combined sewer overflow

Best management practices Waste water treatment plants

Low impact development Storm water management systems

Link to policy decisions Sewer rehabilitation

Policy implementation

Recommendations & Research Needs

Lake-wide protection act and associated plan– All the PPLs and agricultural sources

Offsetting/trading program– What would the effectiveness be?

Quantify phosphorus loadings– Identity priority areas and implement policy

Funding body for ageing infrastructure– Target priority areas and most significant sources

Identify emerging sources of phosphorous– What emerging industries will contribute new sources of phosphorous to

Lake Erie?