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Manchaug Pond cleanup is April 24 Community Content SUTTON/DOUGLAS — The Manchaug Pond Foundation will be holding their Spring Clean Up of scenic Manchaug Pond on Saturday, April 24. Volunteers are invited to join members and Friends of the Manchaug Pond Foundation in cleaning up Manchaug Pond and its watershed. Volunteers with boats are also welcome to help us clean up coves. Volunteer time will support the requirements of MPF’s third s319 Non-point Source Pollution Grant, which was awar...

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Millions needed to repair PG stormwater system: Council report SHARE ON: File Photo: My PG Now staff Prince George’s stormwater system is in need of updating, a report to city council says, and it will take between $31-million to $125-million in order to do it. The report says stormwater management is becoming a higher priority because of a potent mix of more intense storms, aging infrastructure and development. As the community grows, there is potential for an increase in impervious surface...

Dawson BOC to discuss sheriff’s office staffing, emergency plans and SPLOST VII on Thursday The Dawson County Board of Commissioners has a packed agenda ahead of them for the work and voting sessions scheduled for Thursday, Feb. 4, with discussions and presentations scheduled on a range of topics.  First on the commissioner’s agenda for Thursday afternoon’s work session is a presentation from Dawson County Sheriff Jeff Johnson requesting additional staffing for the sherif...

To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: With little fanfare and no significant changes from the draft published April 23, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized modifications to the Clean Water Act (CWA) National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) general permit for stormwater discharges from small Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s) to certain waters of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts (Massachusetts Small MS4 General Permit) ...