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0 <br />RESOLUTION <br />SUPPORTING ADOPTION <br />OF A PHOSPHATE DETERGENT BAN <br />WHEREAS, the Environmental Protection Agency's <br />Chesapeake Bay Program found nutrient enrichment to <br />be a major threat to the health of the Chesapeake Bay <br />and its tributaries; and <br />WHEREAS, research indicates a significant source <br />of the nutrient phosphorus entering the Chesapeake Bay <br />and its tributaries from point sources is laundry <br />detergents and cleaning agents; and <br />WHEREAS, Virginia has identified a "tentative" <br />goal of reducing phosphorus loadings to the Chesapeake <br />Bay by twenty percent below 1980 levels; and <br />WHEREAS, it is estimated that a phosphate detergent <br />ban would reduce the phosphate loadings from sewage <br />treatment plants by twenty to thirty percent; and <br />• WHEREAS, phosphate detergent bans have been passed <br />in Maryland and the District of Columbia, which together <br />with Virginia, surround the Chesapeake Bay; <br />NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the City Council <br />of the City of Charlottesville, Virginia supports the <br />adoption of a phosphate detergent ban in the Commonwealth <br />of Virginia as part of a nutrient control strategy to <br />improve the water quality of the Chesapeake Bay and its <br />tributaries. <br />Approved by Council <br />October 20, 1986 <br />� <br />erk ot Council <br />