516                                 Laws of Maryland                          Ch. 239

Severn River Watershed—Sediment and Waste Control
411AE.

Purposes and definition of Severn River Watershed.—The General
Assembly of the State of Maryland hereby determines and finds
that the Severn River is a great natural asset and resource to the
State of Maryland and that as a result, of poorly treated effluent
discharged from sewage disposal plants and from erosion and silt
which is deposited in said River as a result of construction and
development on lands within the Severn River Watershed the said
River is being polluted and despoiled to a degree that fish, marine
life and recreational use of the said River is being adversely affected
and curtailed. For the purpose of this subtitle, the Severn River
Watershed is hereby defined as that land surface area whose topog-
raphy is such that any water falling upon it would drain either
directly or indirectly into the Severn River.

411AF.

(a)    Sewage treatment plants.—All agencies or persons planning
the disposal or treating sewage AND/OR TREATMENT OF SEW-
AGE AND OTHER WASTE WATER within the Severn River Water-
shed shall anticipate the need for advanced waste treatment and for
the removal of nutrients, in providing land and in planning the con-
struction of sewage treatment plants, so that effluent from sewage
treatment plants shall be sufficiently treated so as to meet the water
quality standard for bacteriological values, dissolved oxygen, pH, and
temperature conditions as stipulated in the Regulations by State
Department of Water Resources, State Department of Health, and
County Department of Health and any amendments to these
Regulations.

(b)    All future sewage AND/OR WASTE WATER treatment
plants located within the Severn River Watershed shall be constructed
so as to conform with the above stated standards, provided, however,

that no sewage treatment outfall shall discharge into any waters
upstream from a line between Horn Point and Carr Point.

411AG.

(a)    The owners and operators of any existing or hereafter con-
structed sewage disposal plant which does not presently or at any
time hereafter meet the above stated standards shall, within one hun-
dred and eighty (180) days from the enactment of this Legislation or
one hundred and eighty (180) days' notice of not meeting the above
standards, submit an improved sewage disposal plan to the State
Department of Health for approval. The Anne Arundel County
Department of Health, within ten (10) days, shall refer copies of
the Plan to the County Council of Anne Arundel County, or the
City of Annapolis as appropriate and the Department of Natural
Resources for their review and recommendation and shall allow such
agencies thirty (30) days in which to respond.

(b)    Said sewage plan shall indicate the necessary improvements
required to insure purity of the effluent to the above standard, and
shall include a time schedule for the construction of the necessary
improvements within not more than three (3) years.