There are currently over 600 Chesapeake Bay Program publications from 1957 through the present.
Published: December 22, 2011 | Download: Electronic Version
Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2010 provides detailed results on many aspects of the ecosystem and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: March 19, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Despite increased restoration efforts throughout the watershed, the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay did not improve in 2008, according to a Chesapeake Bay Program report released today. The Chesapeake Bay Program, however, exceeded...
Publication date: June 28, 2000 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to nurture and sustain a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Partnership and to achieve the goals set both in the subsequent sections. Without such a partnership, future...
Publication date: March 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report
The Chesapeake Bay 2005 Health and Restoration Assessment is presented in two parts. Part Two: Restoration Efforts is divided into five sections. In Reducing Pollution, efforts are compared to goals defined by the Bay states'...
Publication date: April 18, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
On April 18, 2007, the Chesapeake Bay Program released its Chesapeake Bay 2006 Health and Restoration Assessment. The report gives watershed residents a clear and concise synopsis of Bay health and on-the-ground restoration efforts...
Publication date: March 31, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
On April 3, 2008, the Chesapeake Bay Program released its Chesapeake Bay 2007 Health and Restoration Assessment. The report gives watershed residents a clear and concise synopsis of Bay health and on-the-ground restoration efforts...
Publication date: September 22, 2003 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Bay scientists believe that underwater bay grasses, also called submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), once blanketed nearly 200,000 acres in the shallow waters along the shoreline of the Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Program partners...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
A comprehensive overview of the geology and waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its habitats, biological communities and living resources. The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the...
Publication date: April 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report
A Socioeconomic Atlas for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed presents information about population, economy and commerce, social and cultural characteristics, recreation and tourism, administration and government, and land use for counties...
Publication date: December 22, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package is a combination of interactive models. The Community Multi-Scale Air Quality Model and a set of regression models compute daily atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorus loads to the Chesapeake...
Publication date: December 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The State of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed provides current information on the conditions and challenges that face the Chesapeake Bay today. Through an intricate suite of environmental indicators, Bay scientists assess both the...
Publication date: January 24, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this report is to analyze the feasibility of using poultry litter for energy in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Using excess manure to feed energy generation systems in this region could potentially result in a reduced...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Overview of 1979 Emergency Striped Bass Research Study. The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, An Economic Resource: Commerce, Productivity and Transportation
Publication date: December 22, 2011 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2010 provides detailed results on many aspects of the ecosystem and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: March 19, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Despite increased restoration efforts throughout the watershed, the overall health of the Chesapeake Bay did not improve in 2008, according to a Chesapeake Bay Program report released today. The Chesapeake Bay Program, however, exceeded...
Publication date: September 10, 2009 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program promotes community-based efforts to develop and implement conservation strategies to protect and restore the diverse natural resources of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The...
Publication date: February 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
The Chesapeake Bay Contaminated Sediment Critical Issue Forum was structured to seek a technical consensus on a series of questions related to the magnitude and extent of contaminated sediments within the Bay; and how that affects the...
Publication date: June 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In developing revised water quality standards for the Chesapeake Bay and its Tidal tributaries, states may conduct use attainability analyses. This document provides economic analyses performed by the CBP related controls to meet...
Publication date: October 22, 2004 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
A Meaningful Watershed Educational Experience, or MWEE, enables students to participate in hands-on environmental learning about the Chesapeake Bay watershed. This experience will serve as the foundation for a rich, lifelong...
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on vegetative filter strips for agricultural runoff treatment
Publication date: June 06, 2012 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...
Publication date: August 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
As part of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement to which the State of Maryland is a signatory, several plants in Maryland will be required to reduce the nitrogen and phosphorus levels in their affluent. To examine the feasibility of biological...
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document contains the method of producing both the Chesapeake Bay Program Land Use and the Phase 4.2 Watershed Model Landuse. It also documents the hindcasting & forecasting of model land use, the development of model segmentation,...
Publication date: December 05, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Oyster Management Plan includes both a general framework and specific guidance for managing and rebuilding the native oyster stock in Chesapeake Bay. The development of the plan was a multi-partner endeavor by representatives from...
Publication date: October 01, 1995 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
As part of the process of establishing accountability and tracking the implementation of management actions, each fishery management plan (FMP) is annually reviewed and updated. This report reviews the progress of management plans...
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
The report describes results from five sampling periods and examine the effects of atmospheric nitrogen deposition on changes in algal biomass, as well as major algal classes.
Publication date: November 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
The Significance of Ammonia to Coastal and Estuarine Areas is a report on the third Shared Resources workshop on Airsheds & Watersheds. The report covers the potential detrimental effects of ammonia to air quality' the role ammonia...
Publication date: December 22, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package is a combination of interactive models. The Community Multi-Scale Air Quality Model and a set of regression models compute daily atmospheric nitrogen and phosphorus loads to the Chesapeake...
Publication date: January 04, 2013 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Creation of the Nutrient and Scenario Builder tool was achieved with the excellent assistance of the Chesapeake Bay Program Information Technology contractor’s team led by Jessica Rigelman. With her leadership, Jonathan Lewis, Robert...
Publication date: October 11, 1995 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the workshop proceedings which focused on atmospheric nitrogen compounds. Scientists in key policy and regulatory officials explored mechanisms by which air and water pollution control programs worked together to...
Publication date: March 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems
Publication date: January 23, 2012 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team Executive Committee has concluded that the potential risk posed by blue catfish and flathead catfish on native species warrants action to examine potential measures to reduce densities...
Publication date: July 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Groundwater Toxics Loading Workshop was held April 15-16, 1992, at the U.S. EPA Chesapeake Bay Program Office. Workshop participants reviewed and discussed available information on results from groundwater studies and...
Publication date: May 12, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
2011 Milestones to Reduce Nitrogen and Phosphorus
Publication date: September 30, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The overall modeling framework used to assess Virginia's tributary strategies in 1999 is documented. This synthesis report provides an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Program airshed, watershed, and estuary models and other diagnostic...
Publication date: March 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report
The Chesapeake Bay 2005 Health and Restoration Assessment is presented in two parts. Part Two: Restoration Efforts is divided into five sections. In Reducing Pollution, efforts are compared to goals defined by the Bay states'...
Publication date: September 22, 2003 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Bay grasses are a unique yardstick for measuring the progress of Chesapeake Bay restoration efforts because they are not under harvest pressure and their health is closely linked to water quality. In recent years both the health and...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on Deposition of Air Pollutants to the Great Waters: First Report to Congress.
Publication date: December 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A major force in establishing the present land use pattern has been the desire of people to locate primary residences in low density settings and second homes near the water. Unfortunately, development in agricultural, forest, and shore...
Publication date: June 28, 2000 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to nurture and sustain a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Partnership and to achieve the goals set both in the subsequent sections. Without such a partnership, future...
Publication date: July 11, 2011 | Type of document: Meeting Material | Download: Electronic Version
2011 State of the Chesapeake Bay Program: Summary Report to the Chesapeake Executive Council
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This study was performed to compare standard EPA techniques for determining nitrogen and phosphorus concentrations in natural waters with oceanographic techniques typically employed by estuarine and marine scientists.
Publication date: June 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report documents the calculations and procedures for the preparation of the input data to the Watershed Model - HSPF Phase 5. These calculations are used for creating the calibration data as well as scenario data. They form the...
Publication date: March 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
The purpose of this document is to present a geographical targeting approach for focusing chemical contaminant remediation, reduction, prevention, protection, and assessment actions within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
A comprehensive overview of the geology and waters of the Chesapeake Bay and its habitats, biological communities and living resources. The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the...
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report focuses on the identified need of the Chesapeake bay Program to better simulate nitrogen outputs from the forested portions of the Bay drainage and a short-term desire to the US EPA to be able to build off of the existing...
Publication date: June 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this handbook is to provide professional land managers and planners with the latest information on the functions, design, establishment and management of riparian forest buffers.
Publication date: June 01, 1997 | Type of document: Management Plan
The 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan incorporates new information and management strategies into the 1989 fishery management plan.
Publication date: June 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This report is a review and assessment of the existing literature on the following topics: distribution of sources and atmospheric concentrations and deposition of ammonia and watershed cycling of NHx.
Publication date: September 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This backgrounder answers commonly asked questions about storm water management in the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Publication date: March 28, 2012 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2011, 57,956 acres of underwater bay grasses in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries were mapped via aerial survey.
However, while the entire Bay was flown, some portions of the Bay were not mapped since SAV signatures were
masked by...
Publication date: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: April 10, 2002 | Type of document: Report
One of the Tidal monitoring and Analysis Workgroup's primary responsibilities is assessing and reporting the status and trends of nutrients and other parameters monitored within the scope of the Chesapeake Bay Program water quality and...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the 1994 Oyster Fishery Management Plan is to enhance the production of oysters in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem by restoring habitat, controlling fishing mortality, promoting aquaculture and continuing the repletion...
Publication date: May 01, 1998 | Type of document: Management Plan
Incorporates new information from the first Baywide stock assessment and recommends additional management strategies. Plan recommendations to protect the health of the blue crab stock which has the highest monetary value of any Bay...
Publication date: November 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Eutrophication -- low dissolved oxygen -- caused by excess nutrients, is the most significant water quality problem facing the Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Program jurisdictions have committed to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Fact sheet describing the functions and values of wetlands , status and trends in wetlands, wetland hot spots, causes of wetland loss, and partnerships for conservation and protection of wetlands
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
The Chesapeake Bay jurisdictions and the Chesapeake Bay commission, respectfully convey this policy agreement to our colleagues in the states and U.S. Congress to stress the critical importance of enhancing support for agricultural...
Publication date: June 01, 2005 | Type of document: Brochure
This Guide provides information on over 600 major public access sites in the Bay area and will enable you to find sites offering opportunities for boating, fishing, wildlife observation and beach use. The Bay as a Source of Recreation...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
This directive outlines environmental education commitments by the Bay Program, departments of education and interagency education groups in each jurisdiction. These groups will report annually to the Department of Education, and...
Publication date: May 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
The primary objectives of this report are to describe the spatial patterns in the distribution of sediment chemical contaminants in Chesapeake Bay and to compare sediment chemical contaminant concentrations in Chesapeake Bay to sediment...
Publication date: March 31, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
On April 3, 2008, the Chesapeake Bay Program released its Chesapeake Bay 2007 Health and Restoration Assessment. The report gives watershed residents a clear and concise synopsis of Bay health and on-the-ground restoration efforts...
Publication date: May 27, 2009 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
Letter from Chesapeake Bay Leadership to Congress to Reduce Polluted Runoff from Federal Highways
Publication date: January 24, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this report is to analyze the feasibility of using poultry litter for energy in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Using excess manure to feed energy generation systems in this region could potentially result in a reduced...
Publication date: April 18, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
On April 18, 2007, the Chesapeake Bay Program released its Chesapeake Bay 2006 Health and Restoration Assessment. The report gives watershed residents a clear and concise synopsis of Bay health and on-the-ground restoration efforts...
Publication date: December 31, 1995 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Memorandum of Agreement establishes a general framework for cooperation and participation among the Maryland Department of Natural Resources, the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries, the Government of the District of...
Publication date: March 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Changes in Sediment and Nutrient Storage in Three Reservoirs in the Lower Susquehanna River Basin and Implications for the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: April 27, 2010 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2009, 85,899 acres of underwater bay grasses were mapped in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. This is a 12 percent increase from 2008, when 76,860 acres were mapped.
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report represents the coordinated effort of a team of scientists from various institutes, who continue a long series of studies aimed at toxicological and chemical characterization of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: December 09, 2003 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The adoption statement was to implement the management strategies and actions recommended by this amendment to protect blue crab spawning potential, reduce exploitation, increase our biological understanding of blue crabs through...
Publication date: October 22, 2004 | Type of document: Brochure | Download: Electronic Version
Meaningful Watershed Educational Experiences (MWEE) serve as the foundation for a rich, lifelong relationship between students and their Bay.
Publication date: July 07, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet overviews blue crab anatomy, life cycle, habitat and current status of the Chesapeake Bay blue crab population
Publication date: December 01, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The U.S. EPA’s Chesapeake Bay Program charged the Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) with reviewing the current understanding of climate change impacts on the tidal Chesapeake Bay and identifying critical knowledge gaps...
Publication date: December 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Phytoplankton standing stocks, production, and species composition are potentially influenced by both the supply of nutrients to the bottom of the food web and removal by suspension feeders...
Publication date: June 28, 2000 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
This is a brief description of air quality in the Chesapeake Bay region
Publication date: December 01, 2000 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
This strategy commits to voluntary efforts that build on the successes of the state and federal regulatory programs and go beyond compliance /existing regulatory point and nonpoint source programs to preclude the need for costly...
Publication date: October 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The purpose of this guidance document is to clarify the concept of wetland mitigation and to prove a common approach to mitigation that will allow governmental decisions to rely on a sound scientific bases.
Publication date: December 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Chemicals of concern include chemical contaminants identified in the 1999 Toxics Characterization that are at levels that may cause toxic impact, chemical contaminants responsible for listing waterbodies as impaired or threatened, and...
Publication date: July 11, 2011 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Fact Sheet: Chesapeake Bay Watershed 2009-2011 Milestones: Interim Progress Assessment
Publication date: November 16, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A continuous deterministic environmental model of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (HSPF), linked to an atmospheric deposition model (RADM) is used to examine nutrient loads to the Chesapeake Bay under different management scenarios. Model...
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This project was initiated on June 1, 1995 for the purpose of stimulating efforts towards the reduction of point source nutrient discharges to the waters of the Chesapeake Bay Water. The primary emphasis of the BNR retrofit...
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This report examines the cost effectiveness of control options which reduce nitrate deposition to the Chesapeake watershed and the tidal Bay. The object of the analysis is to determine the sources of atmospheric nitrate deposited to the...
Publication date: October 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) hosted a workshop in Annapolis, Maryland on February 24-25, 2003, at which sediment experts shared information related to sediment best management practices (BMPs). The information presented on selected...
Publication date: December 03, 2001 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Increased population and development within the watershed have created projections regarding urban and suburban growth and the increase of imperviousness in the watershed, managing stormwater runoff is an important activity for reducing...
Publication date: July 31, 1989 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan is to protect, restore and enhance baywide shad and river herring stocks to generate the greatest long-term ecological, economic and social benefits from the resource.
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Second report to Congress on the atmospheric deposition of pollutants to the Great Waters. This report documents findings since the First Report to Congress and describes recent progress in these issues. This report places emphasis on...
Publication date: September 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Nine action recommendations derived from a 1996 nutrient conference are addressed.
Publication date: August 05, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants Awardees and Projects backgrounder
Publication date: February 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
In this report, a comparison data set with helix and block results for the same samples was analyzed to estimate the magnitude of the low bias of the helix method compared to the block method.
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Riparian forests are essential interfaces between terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. They intercept surface runoff, subsurface flow and deeper ground water flows for purposes of removing or buffering effects from nutrients, pesticides...
Publication date: September 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
Phosphorus plays a major role in nonpoint source pollution. It has become evident that agriculture is experiencing over-application of phosphorus, which has resulted in phosphorus enriched soils in certain locations. The Agricultural...
Publication date: December 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake 2000 agreement has been guiding Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and the District of Columbia, the Chesapeake Bay Commission and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in their combined efforts to restore and...
Publication date: February 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
This report is an overview of the background, fishery dependent and independent monitoring of the fisheries, research, regulations, and enforcement of the 1989 Striped Bass FMP during 1993/1994.
Publication date: May 15, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A three-dimensional, time-variable, eutrophication model, CE-QUAL-ICM, was applied to the Chesapeake Bay. The model incorporated 22 state variables that included physical properties, multiple forms of algae, carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus,...
Publication date: May 23, 2006 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The attenuation of light underwater is an important process in estuaries, directly affecting phytoplankton, submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), visually orienting predators, and indirectly affecting oxygen depletion and other water...
Publication date: June 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is intended to address the inconsistency between parts of the CBP in the sampling and analytical methodology for the determination of particulate concentrations, and offer alternative sampling and analytical procedures to...
Publication date: August 05, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants map (PDF)
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of commitments in the Chesapeake Bay Program to restore and protect the ecological integrity, productivity and beneficial uses of the Chesapeake Bay. Signatories include the states of Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, the...
Publication date: December 29, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In accordance with the requirements of the Clean Water Act (CWA) and the goals of the Chesapeake 2000 agreement, this paper describes an approach that the US Environmental Protection Agency Regions II and III (EPA) and Chesapeake Bay...
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on Chesapeake Bay Wetlands Research Recommendations and Program Descriptions.
Publication date: December 31, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the status yields and trends of nutrients and sediment and methods of analysis for the nontidal data-collection programs in the Chesapeake Bay Basin
Publication date: April 21, 2011 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2010, 79,675 acres of underwater bay grasses were mapped in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Publication date: December 01, 2003 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
This document presents a strategy to accelerate the protection and restoration of submerged aquatic vegetation, or SAV, in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries.
Publication date: February 23, 2004 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Over the past two centuries numerous mill dams, hydroelectric dams and small blockages were constructed, which prevented fish throughout the Bay watershed from reaching their natal rivers. Migratory fish populations consequently...
Publication date: November 08, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program recognized the importance of wetlands in Chesapeake 2000, which charged signatories to reach specific goals by 2010. This memo provides an update on the 2005 Wetlands Evaluation and outline the the PSCs...
Publication date: May 12, 2001 | Type of document: Report
Recommendations on the reauthorization of the National Invasive Species Act specially dealing with Ballast Water Issues in Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: November 29, 2005 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
By this agreement, the Executive Committee members commit themselves to continually work to ensure that students have been exposed to concepts in environmental literacy and have examined strategies to foster their restoration and...
Publication date: April 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report
A Socioeconomic Atlas for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed presents information about population, economy and commerce, social and cultural characteristics, recreation and tourism, administration and government, and land use for counties...
Publication date: September 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
The Wetlands Implementation Plan is designed to achieve the wetlands policy goals of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement. Both guidance and recommendations to restructure the original implementation plan are addressed.
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
An adoption statement signed by the Executive Council to continue the 2004 Oyster Management Plan. The 2004 Oyster Management Plan provides both a general framework and specific guidance for rebuilding and managing the native oyster,...
Publication date: May 18, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This EPA 2010 Chesapeake Bay Criteria addendum provides previously undocumented features of the present procedures as well as refinements and clarifications to the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment...
Publication date: May 28, 2013 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This version includes Appendices A-E.
Publication date: May 28, 2013 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This version of the report does not include Appendices A-E.
Publication date: May 01, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
To accelerate the implementation of Bay restoration strategies, break down the barriers to local government involvement, and to highlight the integration of proven and innovative Best Management Practices that can be implemented...
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The pH of the freshwater portion of the Potomac River estuary attains 9–10.5, driven by photosynthesis during cyanobacteria blooms. Processes which contribute to elevated pH are examined by adding a massbalance model of the carbonate...
Publication date: September 01, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
For more than two decades, an HSPF-based watershed model has been used to simulate nutrient and sediment load delivery to the Chesapeake Bay. Over time, the watershed model has increased in complexity commensurate with the management...
Publication date: March 14, 2013 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
This short version does not include all appendices.
Publication date: January 30, 2013 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay and the major rivers are the region’s ecological and cultural lifeblood. They are the primary features that have shaped human habitation for millennia.
The very resource that means Chesapeake or Susquehanna or...
Publication date: December 06, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Developed by the BMP Verification Committee and Water Quality Goal Implementation Team, these principles were adopted by the Principals' Staff Committee to guide the jurisdictions’ development and implementation of BMP verification...
Publication date: June 06, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...
Publication date: January 30, 2013 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program partners track and report on a wide variety of indicators of Bay and watershed health as well as watershed-wide restoration progress.
Publication date: January 30, 2013 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Looking at data over time helps scientists understand natural variations as well as the long-term effects of restoration efforts. The data provided in Bay Barometer reflect the Bay’s health over the course of many years, and in some...
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Although fish are usually thought of as victims of water quality degradation, it has been proposed that some planktivorous species may improve water quality through consumption of algae and sequestering of nutrients via growth. Within...
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As the Chesapeake Bay Program Mainstem Monitoring Program reached its fifth
anniversary, EPA initiated a systematic review of the program design and implementation.
In the process of this review, numerous questions were raised which...
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The Chesapeake Bay, USA, suffers from multiple water quality impairments including poor water clarity. A management strategy aimed at improvingwater clarity through reduction of nutrient and solids loads to the bay is under development....
Publication date: January 15, 2013 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Each year, the Susquehanna River provides the Bay with one-quarter of its sediment loads. Working to curb these loads are three large reservoirs located along the lower portion of the river, each of which sits behind a dam. These...
Publication date: November 19, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: November 19, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: November 13, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: November 13, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: August 28, 2012 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
The funding was provided through the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund, which awards competitive grants of up to $1 million to projects that demonstrate innovative and cost-effective approaches to dramatically reduce or eliminate...
Publication date: August 28, 2012 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program promotes community-based efforts to develop and implement conservation strategies to protect and restore the diverse natural resources of the Chesapeake Bay and its watershed. The...
Publication date: August 28, 2012 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Forty-one projects in the Chesapeake Bay watershed received $9.22 million in grants from the Chesapeake Bay Stewardship Fund, which is administered by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation (NFWF).
The Small Watershed Grants (SWG)...
Publication date: January 04, 2013 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Creation of the Nutrient and Scenario Builder tool was achieved with the excellent assistance of the Chesapeake Bay Program Information Technology contractor’s team led by Jessica Rigelman. With her leadership, Jonathan Lewis, Robert...
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Publication date: July 20, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: July 20, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: July 16, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (WQGIT) supports the commitments of the CBP partnership to reduce nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment pollution loads in order to achieve water-quality standards in...
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Public Agenda for 2012 Executive Council Meeting, Gunston Hall Plantation, Lorton VA
Publication date: June 06, 2012 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
Managers are making tremendous progress identifying and tackling environmental issues facing the Chesapeake Bay. However, many of the remaining challenges to a healthier ecosystem are complex, diffuse, and directly in the hands of...
Publication date: June 01, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
This document describes how to access biological monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay Program's Chesapeake Data Enterprise (CDE) formerly the Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS). It provides information on:
Publication date: March 28, 2012 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2011, 57,956 acres of underwater bay grasses in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries were mapped via aerial survey.
However, while the entire Bay was flown, some portions of the Bay were not mapped since SAV signatures were
masked by...
Publication date: January 23, 2012 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Sustainable Fisheries Goal Implementation Team Executive Committee has concluded that the potential risk posed by blue catfish and flathead catfish on native species warrants action to examine potential measures to reduce densities...
Publication date: December 22, 2011 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2010 provides detailed results on many aspects of the ecosystem and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: November 08, 2011 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This collection of examples follows LGAC's recent publication, “Our Waters, Our Towns: Local Governments’ Role in the Watershed Implementation Plans,” which provided useful information about the new requirements and...
Publication date: July 11, 2011 | Type of document: Meeting Material | Download: Electronic Version
2011 State of the Chesapeake Bay Program: Summary Report to the Chesapeake Executive Council
Publication date: July 11, 2011 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Fact Sheet: Chesapeake Bay Watershed 2009-2011 Milestones: Interim Progress Assessment
Publication date: July 11, 2011 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In this report, you will find background on the Local Government Advisory Committee, the TMDL and the current Phase II WIP process, and resources for more information.
...Publication date: May 27, 2009 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
Letter from Chesapeake Bay Leadership to Congress to Reduce Polluted Runoff from Federal Highways
Publication date: September 10, 2009 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
PDF map of Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants - 1998-2009
Publication date: January 28, 2010 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
The Bay Backpack is an exciting new web site for teachers and environmental educators interested in teaching about the Chesapeake region. This onestop shop provides all the tools you need to give your students a Meaningful Watershed...
Publication date: April 27, 2010 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2009, 85,899 acres of underwater bay grasses were mapped in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries. This is a 12 percent increase from 2008, when 76,860 acres were mapped.
Publication date: June 03, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Citizens Advisory Committee Report to the Chesapeake Executive Council
Publication date: June 03, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Chesapeake Bay Program Partner Restoration Highlights
Publication date: June 03, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 State of the Chesapeake Bay Program: Summary Report to the Chesapeake Executive Council
Publication date: August 05, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants map (PDF)
Publication date: August 05, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Grants Awardees and Projects backgrounder
Publication date: June 21, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fact sheet
Publication date: November 04, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Small Watershed Grants Awardees and Projects backgrounder
Publication date: November 04, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Map of Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants - 1998-2010 (PDF)
Publication date: May 09, 2011 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Backgrounder: River Flow, Long-term Trends and Stream Health In the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Publication date: April 21, 2011 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2010, 79,675 acres of underwater bay grasses were mapped in Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries.
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
Nutrient losses from all contributing activities on developed lands account for about one quarter of the excess phosphorus and one eighth of the excess nitrogen loads entering the Chesapeake. Members of the Lawn Care Product...
Publication date: September 14, 1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
These action items were developed to further guide program initiatives between the DoD and EPA and reflect current Chesapeake Bay program strategies including the 1992 Amendments to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement. These action items may...
Publication date: December 09, 1983 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of actions agreed upon by the signatories to assess and oversee the implementation of coordinated plans to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system, as the newly formed...
Publication date: May 04, 2002 | Type of document:
Pride of Baltimore II and City of Annapolis Join Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Publication date: July 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Beginning with the first Bay cruise in January 1996, DOC data was no longer to be reported; however, AMQAW requested that the DOC data generated since the beginning of the program be scrutinized and that 1.) a factor be found, if...
Publication date: December 08, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this study was two-fold: Comparison of the DOC results from different instruments used in the program in order to provide a baseline for comparison of DOC data and historical data if these instruments are replaced;...
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this study is to determine a whole water sample can be kept under certain conditions before significant changes in nutrient concentration occur.
Publication date: March 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this study is to compare alternative processing and preservation techniques. For the present discussion processing includes filtering, chilling, freezing, and the addition of acid or other chemicals to reduce or stop...
Publication date: November 01, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this study was to produce an interlaboratory comparison involving filtering techniques as well as the results of nutrient analyses among laboratories participating in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program, and was conducted...
Publication date: March 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this study is to examine the data from the period when samples were analyzed using both DOC methods, so that differences related to changes in methods are made apparent to data users.
Publication date: September 24, 1986 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this study was to assess freezing as a sample preservation alternative.
Publication date: August 25, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This was the final report to the management board on behalf of the Monitoring Realignment Action Team describing the background, processes, and conclusions of the monitoring re-alignment process
Publication date: August 25, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Recommendations to improve coordinated nontidal monitoring, assessment, and communication activities in support of Chesapeake Bay restoration: A report addressing STAC recommendation for monitoring reallocation, 2009.
Publication date: August 25, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The report provides recommendations for partnership opportunities for monitoring to help address the needs of several Chesapeake Action Plan (CAP) goals: water quality, habitat, living resources, and watersheds (CBP, 2008). The report...
Publication date: May 18, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This EPA 2010 Chesapeake Bay Criteria addendum provides previously undocumented features of the present procedures as well as refinements and clarifications to the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment...
Publication date: April 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Region III Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries (Regional Criteria Guidance) is being...
Publication date: April 15, 2002 | Type of document: Report
A series of refinements were added to a previously-completed three-dimensional eutrophication model of Chesapeake Bay. Refinements included increased grid resolution in the western tributaries and in shallow littoral areas, extension of...
Publication date: June 05, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Memorandum of Agreement provides for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service Pennsylvania Field Office (PAFO) in State College, Pennsylvania, the Alliance for the Chesapeake Bay (Alliance) and the U.S....
Publication date: July 14, 1994 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Representatives of the participating Federal agencies, commit to managing the Chesapeake Bay watershed as a cohesive ecosystem, and recommit to working together and with the states and other parties to achieve the goals of the...
Publication date: February 19, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The focus of the Toolkit for Conservation Landscaping for Community Spaces is to provide a framework for designers to achieve a balance between ecologically significant landscaping and community engagement.
Publication date: February 19, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Schoolyard Habitat Program Development Toolkit is designed to train environmental education program providers to more effectively assist teachers and schools develop sustainable, integrated schoolyard habitat projects.
Publication date: December 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In 2008, the VIMS Annual Submersed Aquatic Vegetation (SAV) Monitoring Program initiated a pilot project in the Bay and its tributaries to study two potential enhancements: color film and direct referencing technology. Simultaneous color...
Publication date: September 01, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Since the signing of the multijurisdictional Chesapeake 2000 agreement, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in cooperation with its six watershed State partners and the District of Columbia, has developed a series of water...
Publication date: September 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This paper focuses on the development and application of a relative status measure in the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP): the basis of its methodology and lessons learned from its use in assessing the condition of water quality and...
Publication date: April 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A Socioeconomic Atlas for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed presents information about population, economy and commerce, social and cultural characteristics, recreation and tourism, administration and government, and land use for counties...
Publication date: July 31, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
GIS activities undertaken at the Chesapeake Bay Program Office follow the directives outlined in the National Geospatial Data Policy (NGDP). The NGDP establishes principles, responsibilities, and requirements for collecting and managing...
Publication date: November 29, 2005 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
An adoption statement signed by the Executive Council to implement ecosystem-based approaches to develop new or revised Chesapeake Bay Program Fishery Management Plans (FMPs), using Fisheries Ecosystem Planning for Chesapeake Bay (FEP) as...
Publication date: November 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Community Watershed Assessment Handbook is a simple and straightforward watershed assessment tool that is intended to direct community groups and local governments in conducting a comprehensive environmental assessment. The purpose of...
Publication date: July 01, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document represents the second formal addendum to the 2003 Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria document.
Publication date: October 01, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay numerical chlorophyll a criteria and reference concentrations were derived to address specific water quality, human and aquatic life impairments when applied in specific seasons and to specific salinity-based tidal...
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A synthesis of human activity in the core portion of the Chesapeake Bay watershed written by the National Park Service, with the assistance of a partnership of federal and state agencies, academic institutions, public and private...
Publication date: January 24, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this report is to analyze the feasibility of using poultry litter for energy in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Using excess manure to feed energy generation systems in this region could potentially result in a reduced...
Publication date: December 01, 2004 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The State of the Chesapeake Bay and Its Watershed provides current information on the conditions and challenges that face the Chesapeake Bay today. Through an intricate suite of environmental indicators, Bay scientists assess both the...
Publication date: April 18, 2007 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
On April 18, 2007, the Chesapeake Bay Program released its Chesapeake Bay 2006 Health and Restoration Assessment. The report gives watershed residents a clear and concise synopsis of Bay health and on-the-ground restoration efforts taking...
Publication date: September 11, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Conservation Management Institute of Virginia Tech conducted a telephone survey of 1,988 residents of the Chesapeake Bay watershed (including those residing in parts of New York, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia, Virginia,...
Publication date: August 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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Publication date: October 15, 1991 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Study is to develop alternative concepts on enhancing public access, providing public education and interpretation on Chesapeake Bay natural and cultural heritage and to identify appropriate...
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on the distribution of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay in 1985
Publication date: June 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Summary of the approach taken by the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program to establish measurable restoration goals and to use environmental and other outcome measures to inform the public about the state of the Bay and restoration efforts. Lessons...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
In 1998, the Chesapeake Executive Council signed an adoption statment supporting the Community Watershed Initiative Directive reaffirming the commitment to increase emphasis on watershed restoration, planning and management at small...
Publication date: April 15, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A report on nutrient loadings from septic systems to ground and surface water resources & the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Long-term monitoring programs in the Chesapeake Bay Basin, including program's objectives, funding agencies, participating agencies, investigators, parameters, stations, sample collections, and program integration; a list of stations, and...
Publication date: December 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In October 2004, the Chesapeake Bay Program released Chesapeake Bay Program Analytical Segmentation Scheme: Revisions, Decisions, and Rationales 1983-2003 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency 2004). The Segmentation Scheme Report...
Publication date: September 19, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Federal Agencies Committee (FAC) and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Assistance Network led the effort in developing this document. It was developed for stakeholders involved in the implementation of the State Tributary Strategies. It...
Publication date: September 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This strategy was developed by the Ecologically Valuable Species Work Group of the Chesapeake Bay Program Living Resources Subcommittee to fulfill one of the commitments of the Living Resources section of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay...
Publication date: July 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model (WSM) has been in continuous operation at the Chesapeake Bay Program since 1982, and has had many upgrades and refinements since that time. The WSM described in this paper is application Phase 4.3,...
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Exploring Alternatives for Fisheries Management in the Chesapeake Bay
Publication date: October 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
There has been growing interest by a number of Chesapeake Bay committees on the issues surrounding the use of non-nutritives in animal feeding operations and their potential impacts on the Chesapeake Bay. The Scientific and Technical...
