The Eyes of Paint Branch - Fall 2001
Newsletter
Volume: 7 Issue: 2
DEP Retrofitting Storm Water Management in
Good Hope
In May the Montgomery County Department of Environmental Protection (DEP) initiated construction of a stormwater management pond to control the runoff from approximately 70 acres of developed area in the upper Good Hope watershed. This is a particularly difficult project because it involves in-stream construction, water, sewer power, and phone lines, and must be shoe-horned in among existing homes on three sides. This area drains to the primary wild trout spawning and nursery area, the Good Hope tributary, which is degrading due to increased storm flows.
Some time later DEP will be doing in-stream restoration in the Gum Springs tributary, as well as constructing a stormwater pond in the lower Gum Springs sub-watershed.