On December 5, the Susquehanna River Basin Commission held its quarterly business meeting in Annapolis, Md adopted changes to its regulations covering water withdrawals by drilling operations and a resolution urging the President and Congress to provide full funding for the National Streamflow Information Program, thereby supporting the Susquehanna Flood Forecast & Warning System.

SRBC’s voting commissioners and alternates were: Kenneth Lynch, SRBC Chair and Director, Region 7, New York State Department of Environmental Conservation; Kelly Heffner, SRBC Vice Chair and Deputy Secretary for Water Management, Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection; Dr. Robert Summers, Secretary, Maryland Department of the Environment; and Brig. General Kent Savre, Commanding General and Division Engineer, North Atlantic Division, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

SRBC also reported on recent water quality and biological characterizations SRBC has undertaken for the reservoirs on the lower Susquehanna River between Harrisburg and the Chesapeake Bay. 

Results show satisfactory water quality conditions for aquatic life in the Lower Susquehanna’s reservoirs, although the reservoirs generally contain less biologically diverse community assemblages than the free-flowing stretches of river in the same region. 

The smallmouth bass population continues to be afflicted by high rates of lesion and deformity, and while the population has expanded somewhat from recent low points, the number of fish appears to remain well below the long-term average.

Click Here for more details on other SRBC actions at the meeting or visit SRBC’s Public Participation Center webpage.

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