Water Resources Master Plan

Latest Update:

 
Due to inclement weather, the scheduled February 9, 2010, joint public hearing for the Water Resources Functional Master Plan has been postponed to February 23, 2010, at 7:00 pm, Council Hearing Room, First Floor, County Administration Building, 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772.

If you have signed up to speak, you do not need to sign-up again. Persons desiring to speak at the public hearing may register in advance or fill out a registration form available that night at the hearing site.  To register to speak, contact the Public Affairs Office, M-NCPPC, at:  301-952-4584/TTY 301-952-4366.

For further information on the Plan, please contact the M-NCPPC Countywide Planning Division at 301-952-3650 or e-mail the project manager, Karen Buxbaum, at Karen.Buxbaum@ppd.mncppc.org 

The Preliminary Water Resources Functional Master Plan is now available online. Click here to view .

 A Wrap-Up Meeting on the Preliminary Water Resources Functional Master Plan is scheduled for Thursday, January 14, 2010, 6:00 p.m., Prince George’s Sports and Learning Complex, 8001 Sheriff Road, Landover, MD 20785. Please see event flyer .

  POSTPONED  - A Joint Public Hearing on the Preliminary Water Resources Functional Master Plan is scheduled for Tuesday, February 9, 2010, 7:00 p.m., Council Hearing Room, First Floor, County Administration Building, 14741 Governor Oden Bowie Drive, Upper Marlboro, Maryland 20772. See public hearing notice for more information.

The Prince George’s County has been directed by the State of Maryland via HB 1141 to develop a Water Resources Element as part of the county General Plan. In order to achieve the intent of the state’s directive, the Prince George’s Planning Department will produce a Water Resources Functional Master Plan. This functional master plan will contain policies, goals, objectives, and strategies to address the issues of wastewater, drinking water, septic and stormwater at a watershed level. The new functional master plan will support and/or amend portions of the 2002 Prince George’s County Approved General Plan and various other county plans to address issues of capacity, demands and impacts to water resources in response to growth and growth projections. The planning recommendations will provide guidance for future development activity appropriate for the General Plan-designated Developed Tier, Developing Tier and Rural Tier.

The Water Resources Functional Master Plan planning area encompasses approximately 311,750 land acres located in Prince George’s County, Maryland. The plan also requires inter-jurisdictional planning and coordination in response to watershed boundaries in Maryland and will look at land use and land use planning in the City of Laurel, Montgomery County, Charles County, Anne Arundel County, and Calvert County and the District.

The Maryland Department of Planning has various scaled watershed designations for Prince George’s County. For planning and modeling purposes, the Water Resource Plan will look at water quality, stormwater, and point and non-point pollution impacts at the 8-digit watershed designation. See Map. The county contains nine watersheds at this coding level including parts of the Patuxent (Upper, Middle, Lower), Potomac (Upper, Lower), and Anacostia. The Piscataway and Western Branch watersheds fall entirely within Prince George’s County, and the Oxon Creek watershed falls between the confluence of the Anacostia and Upper Potomac.