ANACOSTIA WATERSHED TRASH REDUCTION PLAN

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ANACOSTIA WATERSHED TRASH REDUCTION PLAN

• DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA DEPARTMENT OF THE
  ENVIRONMENT
• By
• ANACOSTIA WATERSHED SOCIETY
• James R. Cynthia A. Collier

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QUARTERLY MONITORING

• RIVER SEGMENTS 9 5,143 ft 1,507 items of
  trash
• STREAM SEGMENTS 38 35,653 ft 28,883 items
  of trash
• LAND USE SEGMENTS 25 areas 916 items of trash
• WINDSHIELD SURVEY 1,578 Blocks 47,367 items
  of trash (one side only)
• Quarterly about 78,673 pieces of trash were
  counted.

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During the last survey there were 1.2 bags per
foot of stream channel

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RIVER AND STREAM TRASH
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HOT STREETS
Hickey Run Block Hickey Run Block Count Street Block Count Street Block Count
1.(50-74)Street 2.(75-99) 3.(100)
S. Dakota Vista Bladensburg 57.5 Rhode Island Ave 17-15 78.75 S. Dakota V-NYA 108.75
Bladensburg 28-26 58.75 Evarts RIA-17 93.75 N. York Ave SD-Bladensburg 237
Franklin 18-20 71.25 W St 16-Montana 75.75 N. York Ave Wva-16 205
Evarts 18-20 59.25 25 Pl Blad-End 83.75 N. York Ave 16-Fenwick 212.5
Evarts 22-24 58.25 W. Va. Fenwick-16 80 N. York Ave Fen-Kendal 182.5
Evarts 24-26 65 W.Va. 16-NYA 86.25 Vista 26-SDA 167.5
Evarts 28-end 50 17 St W VA- Montana 87.5 Montana 18th-NYA 191.25
Hamlin 18-20 70.75 24 Pl Blad-End 237.5
22nd Douglas -Channing 56.25 Montana WVa-Bldnsbrg 233.75
18 Pl 55
Channing 22-24 50
Adams 31-33 61.7
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STREET TRASH BY BASIN
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CONCLUSIONS

• Trash is an interstate problem
• Plastic bags, bottles cans and Styrofoam are
  70-80 of the problem. Legislative solutions are
  available.
• Paper products degrade QUICKLY.
• Buffer strips trash cans are effective.
• Most trash is eating related

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TMDL IMPLEMENTATION

Pollutant Source Control Public Outreach Standard Structural Device Street and Catch Basin Cleaning Inspection and Enforcement
Fecal Coliform Bacteria x x x x x
BOD x x x x x
Nitrogen x x x x x
Phosphorus x x x x x
TSS x x x x x
Oil/Grease x x x x x
Zinc x x x x  
Lead x x x x  
Copper x   x x  
Arsenic x x   x x
PAH1 x   x x  
PAH2 x   x x  
PAH3 x   x x  
Chlordane     x x  
Heptachlor Epoxide     x x  
Dieldrin     x x  
DDD     x x  
DDE     x x  
DDT     x x  
Total PCB          
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Legislative Solution

• A total legislative package that deals with
  plastic bags, EPF and drink bottles and cans has
  the ability to remove collectively 21, 11, and
  25 of the items from the River. This is 57 of
  the total Anacostia River trash.
• In the tributaries, the removal would be 47 , 5
  , and 14 for a total removal of 66.

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BMP SELECTION CRITERIA

•  The tributaries to the main Anacostia River
  should be as clean as the river.
• The strategy should build upon or compliment the
  Anacostia TMDL Implementation Plan for the twenty
  specified pollutants.
• To be cost effective, storm water should not be
  treated twice to remove trash. There are a
  number of the tributaries which drain into very
  large storm sewers and are comingled with other
  storm water flows before reaching the Anacostia
  River.
• To the extent reasonable, the actions should be
  those that the government has demonstrated that
  it knows how to perform well.
• The citizens should be satisfied with the
  results.
• The costs should be something that can be
  afforded.

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TYPES OF TRASH

• Trash can be sorted into four components for BMP
  evaluation purposes.
• floatables such as plastic drink bottles, foam
  cups and clamshells and woody debris which are
  about 15 percent
• high density sinking objects such as glass
  bottles, and aluminum beverage cans which are
  about 15 percent.
• Minor fraction of degradable objects such as
  paper bags and newspapers.
• 70 percent of the trash that is observed in the
  streams is neutrally buoyant objects such as
  plastic bags and snack wrappers which will float
  under quiescent conditions while clean, but are
  more likely to be entrained by velocity currents.

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IMPLEMENTATION STRATEGY

• Fourteen Individual tributary and MS4 basin trash
  reduction strategies.
• Cheapest and most efficient concept was screening
  the inlets and high efficiency street sweeping
  WEEKLY.
• Most environmentally friendly was water quality
  wetland creation for trash and TMDL pollutants
  removal.
• Street sweeping not only helps the streams but
  also provides clean neighborhoods.

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INLET SCREEN
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STREET SWEEPER
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CAPITAL COSTS BY BASIN
Basin SS Wetland
Pope 190,248
FD-1 56,675
FD-2 34,670
Texas Ave 113,795
Pope MS4 74,007
Chaplin 193,137
Ft DuPont 57,708
Stickfoot 3,444,455
Watts 1,159,734
Nash 370,277
E Cap 979,730
Stanton 49,566
StantonMS4 124,915
Ely 2,396,142
Ft Dav MS4 170,249
Penn 216,475
Kingman 86,069 494,204
Naylor 3,444,455
Subtotal 3,877,262 9,779,257
O M 2.6M/YR
Total Capital Cost Total Capital Cost 13,656,520
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Trash Free

• Plan provides legislative solution which will
  reduce rate increase.
• Plan has capital costs that are reasonable and
  provide not only clean streams but clean
  communities.
• Plan meets all TMDL pollutant removal
  requirements of MS4 Permit.
• Plan achieves trash free Anacostia by 2013.
• Provides Reasonable Assurances for the
  Anacostia trash TMDL due Spring 2010.

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Plastic Bag Bill

• Place a 5-cent fee, paid by consumer, on all
  disposable recyclable plastic and paper carryout
  bags from Retail Food Establishment license
  holders (including grocery stores, food vendors,
  convenience stores, drug stores, restaurants) and
  Class A B liquor licensees.
• Ban non-recyclable plastic carryout bags require
  that if a plastic carryout bag is offered, that
  it must be recyclable and clearly labeled as
  such.
• The retail establishment will get 1 cent of fee
  returned tax exempt to the retailer.
• Retailers who choose to offer a carryout bag
  credit program will retain an additional cent,
  for a total of 2 cents per bag.
• The remaining fee per bag will be deposited into
  a new Anacostia River Cleanup Protection Fund.