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Environmental Planning
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Environmental Planning
Environmental Planning
Within the last decade, environmental planning efforts have been increasingly important in the region. The PTCOG has become a major force in regional environmental planning efforts through programs such as
Air Quality: 
The Air Quality division of the PTCOG is working on regional solutions to two different air quality issues in the Piedmont Triad: ozone and fine particle pollution.
Highlights: Creation and staff support for the Early Action Compact (EAC)
In 2003, EPA announced that eleven Piedmont Triad counties exceeded health standards for ground level ozone in the air. The 11 affected counties in the Triad undertook a unified and proactive step to defer designation and to improve the region's air quality immediately without EPA intervention. The air quality program at the PTCOG assisted in the creation of the regions’ Early Action Compact (EAC). The EAC process will allow cities and counties in air quality non-attainment areas to achieve clean air earlier and with more local control than the schedule imposed by the Federal Clean Air Act. Evidence of the Triad's success in implementing the strategies and reducing ozone came in August of 2005 when the EPA announced that the Triad is one of 14 communities nationwide that are ahead of schedule in the effort to reduce ground-level ozone or smog.
Click here for additional air quality information such as ozone, particulate matter pollution, non-attainment status, federal and state air quality standards, and regional air quality initiatives.
Water Resources & Water Quality:
The Water Resources division of the PTCOG is strongly focused on stream and watershed restoration efforts, relying primarily on grants from the Clean Water Management Trust Fund and the Ecosystem Enhancement Project. Watershed plans have been finalized and approved for Little Alamance/Travis Tickle Creek in Alamance County. Watershed restoration efforts are currently underway for Rich Fork Creek and Abbotts Creek in Davidson County as well as portions of the Dan & Smith Rivers in Rockingham County.
Click here for information on regional water supply and water capacity, stormwater education, comparison water rates, the Jordan Lake Rules, and details on watershed restoration efforts underway in the region.
Brownfields Redevelopment:
The Piedmont Triad Council of Governments Brownfield Redevelopment Program receives funding from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The mission is to facilitate the identification, assessment, cleanup, and beneficial redevelopment of brownfields -- any property where redevelopment is complicated by the presence or potential presence of environmental contamination.
