l-State-local efforts to accelerate land-use
adjustment and land treatment in the Basin.

b. Adoption by State, county and municipal governments of good
strong statutes and ordinances for the control of erosion from
construction sites and other sources in urban areas.

c. Completion of current experiments on Rock Creek in the reduction
of storm water turbidity by means of coagulants, and extension of
such research to the Potomac estuary.

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B. With primary reference to problems of water supply and flood damage
in the Basin, steps must be taken to cope with present or looming
municipal and industrial demands and to guard against future troubles:

1. Large-scale or general problems call for large or general
actions:

a. We recommend that major Basin water supply problems, including
the need for some storage to restore and protect the quality of the
water in the flowing rivers and the needs for flat-water
recreation, be dealt with as follows:

(1) By prompt funding and construction of the authorized
Bloomington Reservoir on the Potomac North Branch, for benefits in
that region and downstream, including the Washington metropolis.

(2) By completing action on the reports on the several additional
major reservoirs which, together with Bloomington, will constitute
a "package" of drought insurance against the Basin's most critical
expected water demands during at least the next 20 years. Three of
the additional reservoirs are those on Town Creek, Little Cacapon
Creek, and Sideling Hill Creek, recommended in the _Potomac Interim
Report to the President_ of January 1966 and detailed in subsequent
studies, for benefits in terms of downstream water supply and
exceptional recreational opportunity. Another reservoir, North
Mountain on Back Creek, was considered to be essential for meeting
these needs by the Governor's Potomac Advisory Committee in its
consideration of the 1966 _Interim Report_ and was recommended in
the Corps of Engineers _Potomac River Basin Report of 1963_.
Additional reservoirs include the Sixes Bridge Reservoir on the
Monocacy and the Verona Reservoir on the Middle River tributary of
the South Fork of the Shenandoah, also recommended in the Corps of
Engineers 1963 report and currently being restudied in detail to
meet prese