Delaware's Plan To Control Runoff Heads For Crucial Public Hearing

An eight-year attempt to tighten statewide controls on stormwater and sediment runoff will go to a crucial public hearing Tuesday, with critics and supporters recommending changes and in some cases calling for a new delay and new compromises.

The Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control effort began after a series of destructive floods and storms in 2003 and 2004 prompted a task force study and call for reforms. Opposition throughout the years prompted rewrites of at least two public draft plans and repeated delays.

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