By the summer of 2012, all of us will be called on to support a court-ordered clean-up program. There are effective, less-expensive ways to get this done!

Click here to the very informative presentation and learn more on ways you can help!

What We Can Do: Contact Information and Suggested Actions

Talbot County Council
1. Urge the County Council to lobby for revisions to the state fertilizer act that would permit local control over residential fertilizer application.
2. Urge the County Council to expand the agricultural buffer width to 60 feet.

Corey Pack, cpack@talbotcountymd.gov
Andy Hollis, ahollis@talbotcountymd.gov
Laura Price, lprice@talbotcountymd.gov
Dirck Bartlett, dbartlett@talbotcountymd.gov
Tom Duncan, tduncan@talbotcountymd.gov
Mailing Address: 11 North Washington Street, Easton, MD 21601

State Legislators
1. Urge members to advocate for county control over residential fertilizer application.
2. Urge members to advocate for mandatory traditional cover crops for all recipients of federal crop subsidies.
3. Urge members to advocate for eliminating financial incentives for commodity cover crops.

Richard Colburn, richard.colburn@senate.state.md.us
Mailing Address: James Senate Office Bldg, Room 315, 11 Bladen St, Annapolis, MD 21401

Addie Eckhardt, Adelaide.eckhardt@house.state.md.us
Mailing Address: House Office Bldg., Room 213, 6 Bladen St, Annapolis, MD 21401

Jeannie Haddaway-Riccio, jeannie.haddaway@house.state.md.us
Mailing Address: House Office Bldg, Room 212, 6 Bladen St, Annapolis, MD 21401


State Level Officials
Submit comments on the Maryland draft Phase II watershed Implementation Plan (WIP)
1. Urge abandonment of the “Basin Model” concept.
2. Instead, insist on numeric, county-by-county targets for pollution reduction.
3. Insist on numeric, quantified reduction targets for each sector of the Watershed Implementation Plan: county septic and storm water, and county agricultural.

Tom Thornton,
Maryland State Total Mean Daily Load (TMDL) Coordinator
phaseIIwip@mde.state.md.us and tthornton@mde.state.md.us

Be sure submit comments on the Maryland Draft Phase II Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP)! wipcoordinator@mde.state.md.us

Our 12th Annual Meeting entitled "Our Dying Rivers: Fact Fiction Fertilizer" was held October 13th at the Talbot County Historical Society. The meeting was well attended with members from the farming community and local government in attendance. Thank you to all those who attended. Click here to read the information presented in PDF format.

OUR MISSION: MANAGED GROWTH
"To protect the unique environment and heritage of Talbot County --- its waterways, farmland and historic small towns."

The Talbot Preservation Alliance was founded in 1999 by Talbot County citizens with the common goal of preserving the unique and fragile environment of our county. We work to accomplish this objective through education, advocacy and, occasionally, through litigation.

We firmly support the principles of “Smart Growth” endorsed by the last four Maryland governors. We work in partnership with other community organizations, inside and outside our county, to encourage adherence to those principles by monitoring the enforcement of ordinances that support managed growth. Because land-use decisions are controlled by elected and appointed officials atthe local level, we help to elect and support public officials who endorse smart growth principles.

To read more about Talbot Preservation Alliance, visit our About Us page

If these values are important to you, we would love to add you to our number.Please contact us at info@talbotpreservation.org