Achievement

Trainees from two separate cohorts submitted an interdisciplinary paper to the Journal of Land Use Policy and recently obtain reviews asking them to revise and resubmit the paper for publication. This paper, entitled Smart Growth and the Pipe: The Location of Sewer Infrastructure and Urban Growth in the Baltimore Region, examines the degree to which residential development in the Baltimore region utilizes public sewer rather than private on-site septic systems, specifically in the context of the Maryland's Smart Growth policy. Reliance on septic systems for residential development has negative environmental consequences as a non-point source for nitrogen, a major pollutant of concern in the Chesapeake Bay.