Cleaning the Chesapeake, Prospective edition

Baltimore Sun article today on what property owners can do to limit their runoff into the Bay (rain barrels, rain gardens, and planting trees) and on the other options for getting more done, which mostly involve expensive government action. What do you think? The government is already going to force the city to spend more money on picking up litter. Should that be the city's priority for how it spends its money?