WRC Wetlands Committee

The Wetlands Committee draws its work priorities from the Water Quality Strategy Goal “to protect and restore wetlands, and evaluate the desirability and feasibility of creating new wetlands”. The committee did a pilot study that found between 8% and 19% of the wetland acreage surveyed may no longer be regulated under the Clean Water Act because the wetland is geographically isolated or lacks a significant influence on navigable water. The committee has suggested that wetlands and riparian corridors can be protected in a stormwater management ordinance or in a stand-alone ordinance that it is currently being drafting.

Related Presentations to WRC

Wetlands Committee Report: Wetland Protections in Tompkins County: Existing Status, Gaps, and Future Needs

Wetlands Committee Slideshow 2/25/2008: Wetland Regulation Gap Analysis

Tompkins County
Planning Department

121 E. Court Street
Ithaca, New York 14850

Phone: (607) 274-5560  
Fax: (607) 274-5578