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b Staff direc/00 Board of Directors Mr. James H. El!iott, Chair: Sussex County Asso- Ciation of Towns Mr. Richard W. Eakle, Vice-Chair: Appointee of the President Pro Tem of the Delaware Senate Mr. Buzz Henifin, Secre- tary: Citizens Advisory Committee Mr. Eric H. Buehl, Trea- surer: Sussex Conservation District Ms. Pat Campbell-White, Past Chair: Appointee of the Speaker of the Delaware House of Representatives Mr. Robert L. Stickels: Sussex County Administrator Dr. William J. Ullman: Scientific and Technical Ad- visory Committee Secretary John E Tarbur- ton: Delaware Department of Agriculture Secretary Nicholas A. Di- Pasquale: Department of Natural Resources and Envi- ronmental Control Mr. Charles W. App: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Ex-Officio Staff Dr. Bruce A. Richards: Executive Director Mr. Edward A. Lewandowski: Education and Outreach Coordinator Mr. James B. Alderman: Restoration Coordinator Ms. Keri Maulh Program Assistant Ms. Loretta Smith: Ad- ministrative Assistant Ms. Brenda Ross-Greene: Technical Writer About this newsletter The Inland Bays Journal is a quarterly publication of the Center for the Inland Bays (Delaware Inland Bays Estu- ary Program). The Center for the Inland Bays is a private, nonprofit organization and a member of the Association of National Estuary Programs. The purpose of this newslet- ter is to provide an open and informative dialogue on is- sues related to Delaware's In- land:Says. For more infor- mation or inquiries about this publication, please contact our offices at (302) 645-7325. On tile Cover: The sun sets over the calm waters of Delaware's Inland Bays this summer. Cover Photo by Jim Alderman. Education is critical to the future of the bays By Bruce A. Richards, Ph.D. Executive Director /nd the environment in which we live. Since you are reading this article, you must have an interest in Delaware's Inland Bays. Consider- Do you ever get enough education? ing your interest, you have Most of us would agree, we can never learn a real opportunity to edu- enough. Each of us probably specializes in a :e#te your family, friends, few areas of i'nterest both peraally and pr- and co-workers about this fessionally, but we can never learn enough,_ fragile resource. recall when astronomer Carl Sagan produced Few people know what number of books:hnd television shows yeats' ago on the universe and our role in studying our place in the scheme of things. Sagan men- tioned that even if we read every waking hour from the time we learned to read until we died, we would only be able to walk four, or perhaps five, steps in a library and read each book we would pass. . This shouldn't stop us from educating our- selves and learning all we can about our world an estuary is or why it's vi- tal to marine life. Most know little about Harmful Algal Blooms (HABs) like Pfiesteria and brown tide. RICHARDS Our Delaware Inland Bays will become clean- er if we can understand what makes these bays dirty in the first place. This doesn't mean that we all have to become marine biologists. Rather, we need to become better stewards ol  the environment. We all live in a watershed (an area of land that drains into a body of water). Activities on land eventually impact our waterways. It's im- portant that we understand relationships such as over-fertilization of residential lawns and the increased abundance of various species of algae in our estuary. Too many nutrients (fer- tilizer) contributed to the water increase the likelihood of algal blooms which cloud the water and rob seagrasses of important sunlight needed for growth. Education is critical. Neighbors need to ed- ucate neighbors, farmers need to teach farm- ers, and we all need to read more, listen more, and learn more. Doing this will help us to make Delaware's Inland Bays a cleaner and better resource for generations to come. TMDLs: an introduction Center for the Inland Bays TMDL stands for "Total Maximum Daily Load". A TMDL can be best described as a wa- tershed or basin-wide budget for pollutant contri- butions to a watercourse. TMDLs may also be established for a portion or segment of a water- shed. A TMDL, in actuality, is a planning tool. The "allowable budget" is first determined by scien- tific study of a waterbody. This study determines the amount of pollutants that can be discharged into the system without causing that body of wa- ter to exceed the water quality standards set to protect its designated uses (e.g., wildlife and fish, primary contact recreation, etc.). A TMDL analy- sis for Indian River, Indian River Bay, and Re- hoboth Bay was completed in 1998.. Once this capacity is determined, sources of the pollutants are considered. Both point and nonpoint sources must be included. Once all the sources are accounted for, the pollutants are then allocated or budgeted among the sources in a manner which will describe the limit (the total maximum load) that can be discharged into the waterway without causing the water quality stan- dard or "budget" to be exceeded. Point sources are grouped into a "wasteioad al- location." A point source is simply described as a discrete discharge of pollutants as through a pipe or similar conveyance. Nonpoint sources are grouped into a "load allocation." A nonpoint source is essentially any source of pollutant(s) that is not a point source. An examples is stormwater runoff from a road- way or field. By federal regulation, the budget must also include a "margin of safety." This ac- counts for any uncertainties in the loading calcu- lations. TMDLs for Indian River, Indian River Bay, and Rehoboth Bay were established in the au- tumn of 1998. Currently, the Inland Bays Tribu- tary Action Teams are working in conjunction with the Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control to develop Pollution Control Strategies to meet the required nutrient load reductions established for the TMDLs. These strategies could have a profound effect on the way we live, work, and recreate in the Inland Bays watershed. For more information about TMDLs, or be- coming involved as a Tributary Action Team member, please call the office of the Center for the Inland Bays at (302) 645-7325. Diamondback Terrapin Sighting Form DATE OF OBSERVATION(mm/dd/yy): TIME OF I)AY: SKY CONDITIONS (please circle): PRECIPITATION: None AIR TEMPERATURE: 50s WATER TEMPERATURE: LOCATION (please b¢ specific as possle): Clear . Cloudy Overcast Fog Lt. Rain Hvy. Rain 60s 70s SOs 90s TYPE OF SIGHTING: in'water / OTHER OBSERVATIONS: ' basking nesting dead NAME AND t DDKESS: Calendar of Events Tuesday, October 17 Water Use Plan Implementation Committee Meeting 7:00 p.m. Cannon Lab, Room 104 College of Marine Studies Lewes Friday, Nov. 3 Scientific and Technical Adviso- ry Committee Meeting 9:00 a.m. Cannon Lab, Room 104 College of Marine Studies Lewes Tuesday, Nov. 21 Water Use Plan Implementation Committee Meeting 7:00 p.m. Cannon Lab, Room 104 College of Marine Studies Lewes Monday, Dec. 11 Citizens Advisory Committee Meeting 9:00 a.m. Cannon Lab, Room 104 College of Marine Studies Lewes Friday, Dec. 15 Board of Directors Meeting 9"00 a.m. Cannon Lab, Room 104 College of Marine Studies Lewes The College of Marine Studies is lo- cated off Pilottown Road, Lewes. All meetings of the Center for the Inland Bays are open to the public.