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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: July 11, 2011 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Fact Sheet: Chesapeake Bay Watershed 2009-2011 Milestones: Interim Progress Assessment
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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 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: 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: 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: December 01, 1989 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate the striped bass stock in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout its Atlantic coast range, to generate optimum long-term...
Publication date: June 04, 1997 | Type of document: Adoption Statement
The 1997 Chesapeake Bay Blue Crab Fishery Management Plan is a guide to conserving and protecting the blue crab resource for long-term ecological, economic and social benefits
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
Agriculture is a primary economic sector in the region containing 3.2 percent of the nation's farm acreage, yet producing 5.7 percent of the nation's agricultural receipts and contributing 13 percent of region's Gross Domestic Product....
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: March 07, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the findings of the workshop. The first objective of the workshop was to determine connections between issues, programs, agencies, organizations, and jurisdictions to advance their abilities to address atmospheric...
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: May 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Appendix B documents the water quality calibration of the Phase IV Watershed Model. Simulated and observed concentrations are compared for 8 years of calibration (1984-1991) at 15 water quality stations. Calibration data is shown for...
Publication date: January 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In December 1983 seven hundred legislators, administrators, scientists and Bay users met in Fairfax, VA to develop an action agenda for Chesapeake Bay. This historic conference was convened by the Governors of VA, MD, and PA and the mayor...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Agriculture is a significant source of nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay, with animal manure and poultry litter contributing about half of the agricultural nutrient load. As animal operations become more concentrated and the acreage...
Publication date: August 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the Chesapeake bay Watershed Model
Publication date: August 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
While Chesapeake Bay Program partners continue their work to restore native oysters, efforts are also underway to better understand the risks and benefits surrounding the possible introduction of non-native oysters into the Bay. This...
Publication date: April 29, 2009 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Backgrounder: Underwater Bay Grasses in the Chesapeake Bay and Rivers in 2008
Publication date: March 08, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup seeks to define a common set of criteria to help the Bay watershed jurisdictions meet the intent of this Commitment of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. From these criteria, each jurisdiction...
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: February 19, 2004 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
River shad have long played a pivotal role in the history, culture and economy of the states that border the Chesapeake Bay.
American shad constituted one of the most important mid-Atlantic fishery until the early 20th century, but by...
Publication date: November 13, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship .
Publication date: May 23, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This workshop was held to cover the topic of Sedimentsheds. sedimentshed is a new concept, and is defined as the area that contributes the sediment which directly influences water clarity in near-shore Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)...
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: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The report includes methods, interpretation of results, results for the Watershed, results by State, wetland loss hotspots, discussion and conclusions and recommendations.
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
State and federal agencies have been engaged in restoration and creation of wetlands for many years, generally as part of programs focused on habitat and water quality management. In the late 1990s recognition of the growing cumulative...
Publication date: June 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report is the third in a series in which the Chesapeake Bay Environment Model Package was used to assess the environmental benefits of oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the effects of oyster restoration to all...
Publication date: May 01, 2000 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Number of Hectares of SAV in 1999 and 2000 and Percent Change for Chesapeake Bay Segments and Zones
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This publication is a collection of case-studies that highlight accomplishments of local governments and citizen organizations to recognize the importance of forests to their communities and to take action to retain and restore those...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay is dependent upon the actions of every citizen in the watershed, both today and in the future. The Bay's future will soon rest in the hands of its youngest citizens. Our students, future Bay leaders, should be armed...
Publication date: July 01, 1990 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program Executive Council adopted the Chesapeake Bay Alosid Management Plan in July 1989 to establish a framework for coordinated management of the Chesapeake's shad and herring fisheries. This implementation plan is...
Publication date: February 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: March 07, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This resolution urges the Secretary of Agriculture to make the Chesapeake Bay Watershed a priority objective by heightening coordination efforts with other Federal departments and agencies in order to leverage resources available from...
Publication date: April 23, 2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this document is to communicate the findings and recommendations of the Federal Agencies Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program with respect to an anticipated proposal to introduce the Suminoe oyster into the waters of...
Publication date: June 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
The primary purpose of this analysis is to determine whether selected lateral and mid-Bay stations in the Chesapeake Bay mainstem have the same overall levels of certain water quality parameters.
Publication date: January 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
An assessment of ambient toxicity of Delaware public peninsula creeks where agriculture is the dominant land use. The assessment evaluates potential persistent impacts and potential intermittent or pulsed impacts. Three watershed...
Publication date: September 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This first-of-its-kind report synthesizes more than a decade's worth of data from public and private sources, highlights current forest conditions, forecasts future trends, and outlines key goals and strategies necessary to conserve and...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
This Directive addresses next steps, each of which will advance Tributary Strategy implementation, and identifies measures to implement several Panel recommendations upon which action can be taken quickly.
Publication date: May 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Sediment is the third biggest pollutant to the Bay and its tributaries. Tidal sediment comprises approximately 57% of the sediment load to the Bay. Excess sediment is a key contributor to degraded water clarity and damages critical...
Publication date: May 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Comparison of simulated and observed flow for 8 years of calibration (1984-1991).
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: April 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package (CBEMP) was used to assess the environmental benefits of a ten-fold increase in native oysters in Chesapeake Bay. The CBEMP consists of a coupled system of models including a...
Publication date: August 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Chesapeake Bay watershed model precipitation and meteorological data development and atmospheric nutrient deposition.
Publication date: March 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Report curtailing proceedings and agreement statements on oyster restoration derived from 2 day workshop held in Waldorf, MD on January 13 & 14, 2000. Contains important consensus statements derived from meeting, on oyster sanctuaries...
Publication date: May 01, 2001 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
The distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and the coastal bays of the Delmarva Peninsula, was mapped from 2,033 black and white aerial photographs. These were taken between May and...
Publication date: December 27, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This document sharpens the focus of the EPA and the USDA to carry out activities to help Chesapeake Bay Program partners meet their nutrient reduction goals. EPA and USDA commit to using their complementary authorities and programs to...
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: 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: December 09, 2003 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
improving water quality is the most critical element in the overall protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries was the goal of this directive.
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: September 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package (CBEMP) was used to assess the environmental benefits of oyster restoration in Chesapeake Bay. The CBEMP consists of a coupled system of models including a three-dimensional hydrodynamic...
Publication date: December 07, 1999 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
Wetlands, both tidal and non-tidal, play a critical role in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, a role the Chesapeake Bay Program recognized in the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, the 1989 Chesapeake Bay Wetlands Policy and Directive 97-2,...
Publication date: September 22, 2003 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
In 2002, SAV coverage reached a record 89,658 acres - more than twice the level first recorded in 1978. While this increase is impressive, a great deal more needs to be done to reach the Bay Program’s new 185,000-acre baywide...
Publication date: February 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), in cooperation with the USDA and the Mid-Atlantic Water Quality Program, convened a forum on innovation in agricultural conservation in...
Publication date: October 14, 1994 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In 1992, recognizing the significant role that agriculture plays in the Bay's restoration, the Executive Council launched the Agricultural Nonpoint Source Initiative to develop strategies for the agricultural community to reach their...
Publication date: July 20, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: June 19, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The phosphorus detergent ban was implemented in the Bay signatory jurisdictions in the mid to late eighties. After the ban's implementation, it became clear that the ban resulted in a significant reduction of discharge in phosphorus...
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: April 25, 2003 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
Policy memo concerning decisions regarding nutrient and sediment load allocations and ne submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) goals.
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: July 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A literature review was conducted to determine the effectiveness of forestry best management practices (BMPs) in reducing water quality impacts of forestry management operations within the Piedmont and Ridge-and-Valley of the Chesapeake...
Publication date: January 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Better quantifying the lag time between changes in nutrient and sediment sources in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and improvement in the Bays water quality and submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is...
Publication date: August 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Appendix F documents in detail the Phase IV Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model point source nutrient data assimilation process for the facilities located in signatory and non-signatory jurisdictions of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This...
Publication date: January 09, 2005 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program signatory partners commit to adopting the Fish Passage Goal, as stated: "During the period 2005–2014, the Chesapeake Bay jurisdictions will complete 100 fish passage and/or dam removal projects, which will...
Publication date: December 05, 2007 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In 2006, the Chesapeake Executive Council recognized that retaining, expanding, and sustainably managing forest lands is essential to restoring a healthy Chesapeake Bay by signing Directive 06-01. This implementation document responds...
Publication date: June 01, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Water quality in Chesapeake Bay has degraded over the past 50 years with respect to oxygen depletion and reduced light attenuation. While the causes are numerous, sediment resuspension from wave and tidal action cloud the water column...
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: January 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Documents the findings of the two-year information gathering process of the strategy reevaluation but also recommends an approach for undertaking future toxics reduction and prevention actions in the Bay watershed.
Publication date: July 01, 1989 | Type of document: Management Plan
The purpose of the Plan is to manage the oyster resource by restoring oyster habitat, controlling fishing mortality, promoting aquaculture and continuing the repletion programs.
Publication date: June 03, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Chesapeake Bay Program Partner Restoration Highlights
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: 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: November 19, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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: 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: January 01, 1982 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This primer serves as an introduction to several forthcoming Chesapeake Bay Program publications. These publications will describe the results of the scientific investigations and identify management solutions to specific Bay resource...
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...
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: October 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. The Chesapeake Bay Programs Chesapeake 2000 agreement commitment number 4.2.2 calls for the partners to identify and remove state and local impediments to low impact development designs to...
Publication date: January 05, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
For the last 20 years, the Chesapeake Bay Program partners have used various forms of a basic segmentation scheme to organize the collection, analysis and presentation of environmental data. The Chesapeake Bay Program Segmentation Scheme...
Publication date: December 26, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
We the undersigned, adopt the Fish Passage Goals Policy in accordance with the Fish Passage Strategy adopted by the Executive Council in January of 1989. The Fish Passage Strategy states that all jurisdictions of the Chesapeake Bay...
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Both tidal and non-tidal wetlands critical role in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, is emphasized in this in this directive and specific actions are recommended to maintain existing wetland and to restore wetland acreage and functions in...
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: 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: October 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document includes the seven appendices to the report Chesapeake Bay: A frame work for action developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. The report and its appendices describe the state of the Bay,...
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: 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: 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: November 04, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2010 Small Watershed Grants Awardees and Projects backgrounder
Publication date: July 20, 2012 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: May 04, 2002 | Type of document:
Pride of Baltimore II and City of Annapolis Join Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
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: 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: August 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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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: 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: 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: 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: October 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
This document addresses the Plan's goals to protect and monitor the bluefish resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and state coastal waters, and to provide for optimum long-term ecological, economic, and social benefits...
Publication date: September 01, 1982 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is the second of the Program's four final reports. It is intended to share the results and significance of the Chesapeake Bay Program's technical studies with managers, decision-makers and citizens.
Publication date: November 04, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Map of Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants - 1998-2010 (PDF)
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: May 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) Shallow Water Monitoring workshop endorsed the current 3-year combined spatial and temporal coverage design of the Shallow Water Monitoring Program (SWMP)...
Publication date: September 10, 2009 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
PDF map of Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants - 1998-2009
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: May 01, 2001 | Type of document: Brochure
General information about Businesses for the Bay, a voluntary program for businesses, government facilities, and other organizations in the p9llution prevention activities. Brochure includes a sign-up form.
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: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Exploring Alternatives for Fisheries Management in the Chesapeake Bay
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 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: August 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committees (STAC) workshop on Urban Tree Canopy was created in partnership with the Forestry Workgroup to help jurisdictions implement the urban canopy cover...
Publication date: October 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document includes the four appendices to the report Chesapeake Bay: A Profile of Environmental Change developed by the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. The report and its appendices provide a characterization...
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: 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 21, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
National Fish and Wildlife Foundation fact sheet
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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: February 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Streams are in integral part of the Chesapeake Bays natural infrastructure. Stream networks interconnect the land, water, living resources and human communities of the Bay watershed (Chesapeake...
Publication date: November 19, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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: 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 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: 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, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In October 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the Technical Support Document for Identification of Chesapeake Bay Designated Uses and Attainability (Technical Support Document) in cooperation with and on behalf...
Publication date: September 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report provides an overview of the major research findings and range of pollution controls recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program, in accordance with P.L. 94-116 passed by the 94th Congress on...
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...
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: December 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Heavy fishing pressure, habitat degradation and high disease mortality have driven native oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations to historic low levels in Chesapeake Bay. In response, the states of Maryland and Virginia are...
Publication date: March 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Recent publications such as the Chesapeake 2000 agreement and the Fisheries Ecosystem Plan reflect the growing interest in integrated management of water quality and fisheries. The US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) has invested in a...
Publication date: November 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report is to provide costs estimates for treatment technologies associated with varying concentration levels of nitrogen and phosphorus removal from industrial and municipal wastewater plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The data...
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: March 31, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Part of a bi-state research effort funded by the EPA Chesapeake Bay Program between Maryland and Virginia. This report covers the Virginia project, and evaluates soils and slopes characteristic of the ridge and valley province. The two...
Publication date: August 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Globally and nationally, persuasive arguments have been developed to promote increased implementation of spatial measures to conserve and protect marine ecosystems, to preserve or restore...
Publication date: July 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Land use activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are diverse and contribute significantly to water quality. Because of the long history of coal mining in the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, much concern has been...
Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report contains the principal findings and recommendations of a Chesapeake Executive Council-appointed panel on riparian forest buffers. Background material which describes in more detail the technical basis for the recommendations...
Publication date: April 01, 1987 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The second report from the Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring Subcommittee summarizes data collected from June 1984 through September 1985 at over 165 station Bay-wide for the new coordinated monitoring program. this initial effort...
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The bojective of this study was to develop statistical diagnositc tools that would allow environmental managers to identify potential sources of anthropogenic stress to benthic communities within the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: August 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program has been in existence since the mid 1970s. This progress report is intended to give you a quick overview of the program's many accomplishments, as well as a look at the challenges we face in the near future.
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Publication date: November 18, 1999 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems. This 6 panel brochure explains Pfiesteria piscida and how to detect its symptoms in fish or shellfish, and what to do if...
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Public Agenda for 2012 Executive Council Meeting, Gunston Hall Plantation, Lorton VA
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: January 24, 1995 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
Comprehensive study of the state of the Chesapeake Bay - 1995.
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Publication date: December 08, 2003 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
We, the members of the Chesapeake Executive Council, hereby reaffirm our commitment to restoring the Chesapeake Bay, in part, by protecting and restoring riparian lands along the watershed’s thousands of miles of stream and shoreline.
...Publication date: October 01, 1985 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The consumate purpose of the Chesapeake Bay restoration and Protection Program is to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system to restore and maintain the Bay's ecological integrity,...
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: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and spot Management Plan is to protect the croaker and spot resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and coastal waters, while providing the greatest long-term ecological, social and...
Publication date: August 01, 2004 | Type of document: Brochure
Brochure outlines the importance of forests, history of forest loss and program activities in partnerships, information/outreach, continuous forests, riparian forests, and urban forests
Publication date: April 07, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2009 provides detailed results on many aspects of the ecosystem and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Management Plan
Summarizes the Kingfish (Scomberomorous cavalla) and Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorous maculatus) Fishery Management Plan and provides a synopsis of the problems facing the species.
Publication date: July 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Three models are at the heart of the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package (CBEMP). Distributed flows and loads from the watershed are computed with a highly modified version of the HSPF model. Nutrient and solids loads are...
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: 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: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
In past commitments, we agreed to reduce nutrients, to restore habitat, to improve access to thousands of miles of habitat for migratory fish, and to enhance watershed management by developing and implementing tributary-specific...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate summer flounder stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term...
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Protection strategies for preserving and restoring stream corridors.
Publication date: July 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Riparian lands provide a wealth of ecological benefits. For example, trees along the shoreline help to filter pollutants and sediment from runoff and groundwater before they enter the waterways. Trees also provide important habitat...
Publication date: October 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In April 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries (Regional Criteria Guidance)...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS) is an organized, distributed library of information and software tools designed to increase basin-wide public access to Chesapeake Bay information
Publication date: November 13, 2012 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: March 14, 2013 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
This short version does not include all appendices.
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: 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: April 15, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Short synopsis of the Chesapeake Bay Commission's Cost of a Clean Bay Report completed in January 2003.
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
In this publication, we report on the status of our progress toward the goals we set or renewed in Chesapeake 2000. Evaluating the condition of the Chesapeake Bay is a complex process that must include careful examination of the status...
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Designed to improve the ecology of Chesapeake Bay; the ecological value of the oyster resource; to restore, augment, and set aside hard substrate on the Bay bottom to enhance reef community development and improve aquatic habitat; and...
Publication date: December 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
Publication date: May 04, 2010 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
There is broad support for an independent evaluator that conducts ongoing and periodic evaluations of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). This backgrounder describes what the independent evaluator is, frequently asked questions about...
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab resource in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast to ensure its continued role in the ecology of coastal ecosystems, while providing the opportunity...
Publication date: April 30, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
To accelerate the protection and restoration of the Bay watershed, Chesapeake Bay Program partners are developing 36 river-specific cleanup strategies that cover all 64,000 square miles in the basin. These Tributary Strategies aim to...
Publication date: October 18, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The MOU establishes policies, administrative procedures and provides for a cooperative working relationship between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of...
Publication date: December 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
Flounder fish generates a higher dollar value in the Chesapeake Bay watershed each year than any other finfish. This fact sheet provides a summary of problem areas and proposed management strategies described in the Chesapeake Bay Summer...
Publication date: August 12, 1992 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of amendments to 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: February 01, 2000 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: December 15, 1987 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of goals and Priority Commitments for Living Resources; Water Quality; Population Growth and Development; Public Information; Education and Participation; Public Access; and Governance.
Publication date: June 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
A model package including a watershed model, an atmospheric loading model, a hydrodynamic model, and a eutrophication model are used to evaluate the benefit of nutrient and solids load controls on the Virginia tributaries to the...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In December 2003, the Executive Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to establish and convene a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue ribbon panel to consider funding sources to implement the tributary strategies basin-wide and to make...
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: December 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
Under the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, signed by Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, DC, the U.S. EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, Atlantic croaker and spot fish were selected as important species and a fishery management plan (FMP) was...
Publication date: June 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Riparian forest buffers are essential components of maintaining long-term stream and watershed health and resilience in the Chesapeake Bay region. Riparian forest buffers also provide valuable ecological functions for wildlife habitat...
Publication date: September 01, 2008 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The hydrologic calibration of the phase 5 watershed model was evaluated through 9 published acceptable criteria used in HSPF Expert system. The specific flow characteristics evaluated are: Error in total volume; Error in low flow or...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the bay-wide nutrient reduction strategy
Publication date: October 07, 2005 | Type of document: Agreement
The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure and historically the most productive estuary in the world. This document verifies that the signing Federal Agencies re-dedicate themselves to cooperative conservation in support of the...
Publication date: November 21, 1984 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This memorandum of understanding establishes the participation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) in the management of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). It reflects the mutual desire that the capabilities of the COE in their areas...
Publication date: November 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document contains Appendixes to the NRT cost report titled Nutrient Reduction Technology Cost Estimations for Point-Sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Publication date: January 31, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This article discusses elements of the relationship between forests and water quality in the context of the forest buffer.
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Study to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests in concert with fish and benthic community assessments.
Publication date: December 31, 1996 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Riparian forests are integral to the health of the Bay and its rivers for many reasons. Their position in the landscape makes these forests excellent buffers between upland areas and waters that eventually enter the Bay. Riparian...
Publication date: June 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
EPA has defined the water quality conditions through the Chesapeake Bay-specific water quality criteria for dissolved oxygen, water clarity and chlorophyll a in this publication.
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Retaining and expanding forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is critical to our success in restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Forests are the most beneficial land use for protecting water quality, due to their ability to capture, filter...
Publication date: March 14, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
The purpose of this agreement is to amplify the January 1988 Memorandum of Understanding between the USDA-Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, as it pertains to providing technical services to State Foresters and other...
Publication date: May 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The major objective of the Coordinated Split Sample Program is to establish a measure of comparability between sampling and analytical operations for water quality monitoring basin wide. The second objective is to evaluate the in-matrix...
Publication date: December 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
To show support of these goals, the Chesapeake Executive Council (CEC) made commitments to develop and adopt guidelines for the protection of water quality and habitat conditions necessary to support the living resources found in the...
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate red drum stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological,...
Publication date: March 07, 2006 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
An agreement that approves expedited method for handling changes in fishery management plans as warranted.
Publication date: February 28, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This report contains background material that describes in more detail the technical basis for the recommendations and elaborates on the implementation options in the Final Report of the Riparian Forest Buffer Panel.
Publication date: February 12, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Arlington County local government officials are encouraging developers to make projects more environmentally friendly, by practicing what they preach through the installation of a 3,285 square foot green roof that is viewable from the...
Publication date: February 01, 2005 | Type of document: Brochure
This brochure describes the application of the linked Airshed Model, Watershed Model, and Estuarine Water Quality Model in Chesapeake Bay water quality management
Publication date: November 10, 1995 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Through the efforts of the USDA Forest Service, Northeastern Area, and its partners in the Forestry Workgroup, a riparian forest initative has brought more focus on the need to better manage riparian areas and to recognize forests along...
Publication date: December 31, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The use of demonstration sites for riparian forest buffer establishment is one way to help accomplish the objectives of communication, education, and monitoring.The riparian forest buffers in this document are located in agricultural,...
Publication date: October 14, 1994 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
We now recognize that forests along waterways, also known as "riparian forests," are an important resource that protects water quality and provides habitat and food necessary to support fish survival and reproduction. Used as buffers,...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Management Plan
A report on the Tautog Fishery Management Plan
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this Plan is to guide the development and implementation of a regional program to rebuild and restore reefs as habitat for oysters and other ecologically valuable aquatic species.
Publication date: January 01, 2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet provides a summary of the role the Chesapeake Bay region played in the beginnings of slavery in America, as a conduit for the Underground Railroad and in the Civil War
Publication date: July 01, 2001 | Type of document: Brochure
The Gateways Network Map & Guide introduces visitors to the Chesapeake Bay and to Gateway sites and water trails. The Gateways Network is a system of parks, refuges, maritime museums, historic sites and watertrails where people can...
Publication date: November 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In this report, observations of dissolved oxygen concentrations, chlorophyll concentrations, and light attenuation are compared to model estimates taken at the same time and location in model space. The comparison includes scatter...
Publication date: May 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
On October 5-6, 1994, the Nutrient Subcommittee and Forestry Workgroup of the Chesapeake Bay Program hosted a conference on the subject of riparian forest buffers. Participants came together to discuss, debare and learn about the value...
Publication date: October 01, 2000 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
MOU regarding cooperative efforts for the protection of the Chesapeake Bay and it's rivers
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Eel Management Plan is to manage the American eel harvest in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries so that harvest does not exceed the reproductive capacity of the population to maintain its size from year...
Publication date: April 20, 1990 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Cooperative Agreement establishes a policy of Coordination and Cooperation between DoD and EPA on Chesapeake Bay activities, consistent with the goals, objectives, and commitments of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet defines commonly used water quality terms
Publication date: August 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, USA, have agreed to reduce nutrient loadings to Chesapeake Bay by 40% by the year 2000. This requires control of nonpoint sources of nutrients, much of which comes from agriculture. Riparian forest...
Publication date: January 01, 1996 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
Stock assessment results indicate that black sea bass are overharvested. The goal of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Black Sea Fishery Management Plan (FMP) is to
Publication date: July 12, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Dissolved oxygen is vital to the health of the living resources in Chesapeake Bay. This background fact sheet explains the sources of dissolved oxygen, the role dissolved oxygen plays in the Bay ecosystem, and explains low dissolved...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
Fact Sheet: In 1987, signatories from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, the U.S. EPA, and the Chesapeake Bay Commission pledged to initiate management plans for commercially, recreationally, and ecologically...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report examines variations in dissolved oxygen from 1950 onward to determine past trends and evaluate progress in restoring the health of the Bay
Publication date: May 09, 2007 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This document sharpens the focus of the EPA and the USDA to carry out activities to help Chesapeake Bay Program partners meet their nutrient reduction goals. EPA and USDA commit to using their complementary authorities and programs to...
Publication date: December 22, 2004 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This memorandum of understanding between the Environmental Science Center and CBP shall provide an emergency relocation site for CBP.
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Data hub is a Chesapeake Bay Program web page where environmental monitoring and geographic data related to Chesapeake Bay is located. A dynamic, form-driven interface allows the user to access the information.
Publication date: January 19, 1990 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOA sets forth the basic principles and guidelines under which the parties intend to cooperate in environmental program areas including research, development, and demonstration projects; the exchange of ideas, information, and data;...
Publication date: October 18, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
In April 1990, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a Cooperative Agreement concerning Chesapeake Bay activities. This reconfirmed a policy of coordination and cooperation between DOD and...
Publication date: January 01, 1996 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Based on a three-phase program resulting in an integrated and comprehensive approach for targeting habitat restoration projects in the Bay watershed
Publication date: March 02, 2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides an overview of the history of balc eagle restoration in the Bay watershed an update on the current status of bald eagles
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Purpose of Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab's ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast through improved knowledge of stocks and the integration of specific habitat actions thus providing for its commercial,...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
This fact sheet provides a summary of the life history, stock status, problem areas, and proposed management strategies described in the Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Management Plan. For greater detail, consult the complete management plan.
...Publication date: October 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report summaries the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel. The panel was established to identify funding sources sufficient to implement basinwide clean-up plans so that the Bay and its tidal tributaries...
Publication date: October 31, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Interim Report of the Riparian Forest Buffer Directive to the Chesapeake Executive Council
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Outlines standard operating procedures for conducting acute and chronic toxicity tests with Eurytemora.
Publication date: November 30, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
As part of the Chesapeake 2000 agreement, Chesapeake Bay Program partners agreed to establish expanded goals for riparian forest buffer mileage in the Bay watershed by 2003. In response to that commitment, the Chesapeake Bay Program...
Publication date: August 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The TSD was developed by the EPA and its watershed partners to be a companion document to the Regional Criteria Guidance. Because it describes the development and geographical extent of the designated uses to which the refined water...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating cooperation between the NASA and EPA in order to heighten the awareness of each agency's activities with the objective of improving the environmental condition of the...
Publication date: June 26, 2000 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal
Publication date: November 20, 2008 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council issued the Directive: Leading the Nation in Development of a Sustainable Next-Generation Biofuels Industry (08-1). This directive adopts the findings of the Report: Next Generation Biofuels -- Taking the...
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet overviews the new water quality standards and criteria that form the basis of the Bay cleanup.
Publication date: October 01, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Watershed management planning establishes partnerships between local and state governments, community organizations and any other groups with the common goal of protecting your watershed. Additionally, watershed management planning is a...
Publication date: October 01, 1999 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, An Economic Resource: Commerce, Productivity and Transportation, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of...
Publication date: July 05, 1995 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to sanction the wetlands partnership among the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Chesapeake Bay Field Office (CBFO_ and National Biological Service's (NBS) Patuxent Environmental...
Publication date: July 25, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Monitoring Subcommittee of the Chesapeake Bay Program decided to implement a Chesapeake Bay Coordinated Split Sample Program, using field split samples, that was to begin in May or June 1989. As part of the planning for that...
Publication date: October 31, 2002 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
MOU among the State of Delware, the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of West Virginia, and the United States Environmental...
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the conditions planned to achieve a net gain in submerged aquatic vegetation distribution abundance and species diversity in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries over present populations.
Publication date: December 01, 1990 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. The Plan will guide the protection and restoration of native waterfowl species using the Chesapeake Bay, its tidal tributaries, and adjacent uplands. The Plan emphasizes the protection and...
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the conditions that will reduce nutrients entering the Bay at a level 40% less than they were in 1985, even in the face of increased population and development.
Publication date: April 15, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This Backgrounder highlights milestones in Bay water quality restoration between April 2003 and 2010.
Publication date: November 30, 1995 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
To add to the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction and Prevention Strategy, the following additional goal: Develop and conduct basin wide education and outreach programs for commercial and household pesticide applicators to promote,...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Chesapeake Bay and tidal Tributary River Interpolator is a standalone application that interpolates water quality sample concentrations on the surface or throughout the 3D volume of the Bay and tidal tributaries.
Publication date: November 16, 1986 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This study was undertaken to compare results obtained with standard and alternative, new techniques for total nitrogen and chlorophyll determination in estuarine water samples.
Publication date: January 11, 1989 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Memorandum of Understanding provides for coordination and cooperation between the U.S. Department of the Army and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Chesapeake Bay Activities. This MOU supersedes the 21 November 1984 MOU...
Publication date: June 04, 1997 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
This minor amendment to the 1991 Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan updates the status of the summer flounder stock and allows for improved monitoring of management objectives set forth in the 1991 Plan.
Publication date: December 10, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
On December 9, 2003, the Chesapeake Executive Council called for the establishment of a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel to seek new and innovative ways to finance and secure the Bay's future. The Blue Ribbon Panel has...
Publication date: November 11, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Answers the question: how do forests provide answers for the restoration of the bay.
Publication date: March 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet overviews the restoration and protection of bald eagles and provides information on current status and tends of blad eagles in the Bay watershed
Publication date: October 01, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Watershed management planning provides opportunities to address water quality and habitat issues within the physical boundaries of a watershed rather than political boundaries. It is an inclusive approach to support environmental...
Publication date: December 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the results of the 1994-1998 coordinated split sample program for the mainstem Chesapeake Bay Parameters with poor agreement are investigated, problems identified, and coorective actions are taken to improve...
Publication date: April 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: January 26, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides background information on waterfowl in the Chesapeake Bay
Publication date: September 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A summary of the recommendations from the Cap Issue and Policy Groups providing guidance for program planningregarding the nutrient cap.
Publication date: December 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This document summarizes the Toxics 2000 Strategy
Publication date: March 26, 2001 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
Principle's Staff Committee endorsement page
Publication date: April 20, 1990 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Cooperative Agreement establishes a policy of coordination and cooperative between DoD and EPA on Chesapeake Bay activities, consistent with the goals, objectives, and commitments of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: January 01, 1989 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
Monitoring plays a key role in guiding the Bay's restoration, making it imperative that the information collected through the monitoring programs be promptly and appropriately interpreted and used. In this report case studies depict...
Publication date: November 05, 1998 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Building upon the Clean Water Action Plan, 15 agencies dedicated to enhancing stewardship on Federally-managed public lands are signatories to this Plan, which outlines new opportunities to support the needs of priority watersheds,...
Publication date: November 13, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This press release announces the launch of the local government resource, Bay LogIn
Publication date: October 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
September 1983. Published in 1983, at the culmination of the seven-year research phase of the program, describing the state of the Bay, sources of pollution, control alternatives for reducing pollution and a recommended range of actions...
Publication date: March 11, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council selected fifteen members to a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel charged with developing innovative solutions to financing the multi-billion dollar Bay restoration effort. The 15-member...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The goal of the King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate King and Spanish mackerel stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate...
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the chlorophylla and water clarity criteria underdevelopment in 2001
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
The Interstate Animal Waste Distribution and Use Technology Directive supports the nutrient reductions goals of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement and the opportunity that it provides for all states within the Chesapeake Bay watershed...
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on non-point source pollution loading factors and related parameters from the literature.
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Guidelines, requirements and procedures for field and measurements, field sampling and laboratory analysis in support of the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. Quality control protocols are specified.
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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 07, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Memorandum of Understanding provides for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. This agreement is established for the purpose of...
Publication date: January 01, 2005 | Type of document: Brochure | Download: Electronic Version
This newsletter summarizes four important water quality events that affected the Chesapeake Bay during 2004.
Publication date: May 01, 1998 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
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: April 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship.
Publication date: October 07, 2005 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
A resolution to enhance Federal Cooperative Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Program. In August 2004, the President issued an Executive Order to federal agencies that oversee environmental and natural resource policies and programs...
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
A report on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan.
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of local governments' role in the Chesapeake Bay Program within the range of program activities that depend on local action and support.
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the Strategy's purpose and methods for fulfilling goals and objectives of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This is a fact sheet on contaminants and other Bay-related issues
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Soil reactions and potential loss pathways of the essential plant nutrients that provide a framework for effective nutrient management planning.
Publication date: October 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Stream corridor protection options for local decision makers
Publication date: August 01, 1997 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Outreach document outlining priorities for actions for land, growth and stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay region
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
In the District of Columbia, 63% of the District's respondents thought that funding for repair should be spent on reducing water pollution. As in each individual jurisdiction's survey, the District of Columbia's data was analyzed by the...
Publication date: December 01, 1990 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Weakfish and Spotted Seatrout Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate weakfish and spotted seatrout stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to...
Publication date: July 28, 2005 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Memorandum of Understanding provides for enhanced cooperation between the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program.
Publication date: November 21, 1984 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This memorandum of understanding establishes the participation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). It reflects a mutual desire that the capabilities of NOAA in the area of...
Publication date: August 25, 1999 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
The President's 1997 initiative to support communities in their efforts to restore and protect America's rivers brought together 22 agencies and departments that became Federal Agency partners of the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Publication date: March 01, 2006 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
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: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Directive
The restoration of water quality and living resources is the principal goal of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Through the cooperative efforts of the Bay Program partners, we have endeavored to strengthen and coordinate our actions to protect...
Publication date: May 18, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Memorandum of Understanding establishes policies, administrative procedures, and provides for a cooperative working administrative procedures, and provides for a cooperative working relationship between the U.S. Department of...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council's members agree to work together to implement the management actions recommended to address the potential for overfishing, stock assessment and research needs, and habitat degradation.
Publication date: March 01, 2006 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay 2005 Health and Restoration Assessment is presented in two parts. In Part One: Ecosystem Health, the most current data available are used to provide a scientifically based assessment of the Health of the Bay. In Part...
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council's Adoption State believes that the efforts of the Chesapeake Bay Program should not duplicate existing efforts that successfully address Program goals and objectives, that the Program and its partners...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
This fact sheet provides a summary of the life history, stock status, problem areas, and proposed management strategies described in the Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Management Plan. For greater detail, consult the complete management plan....
Publication date: October 31, 2002 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
Replaces the 1996 Local Government Participation Action Plan
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
Bridging the gap between innovative, sustainable principles and implementation requires the synergistic efforts of local elected officials, the business and financial community, developers, and the public at large. Each of these...
Publication date: January 11, 1989 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOU provides for coordination and cooperation between the U.S. Department of the Army and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Chesapeake Bay activities.
Publication date: November 21, 1984 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
USGS agrees to join with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a contributing member of the institutional framework established by the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This backgrounder explains what environmental models are and how they are used at the Chesapeake Bay Program
Publication date: April 07, 2010 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2009 provides detailed results on many aspects of the ecosystem and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: January 05, 2010 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
Under Governor Kaine’s leadership, the Chesapeake Executive Council adopted in May 2009 a new transparent accountability system – two-year milestones for reducing nitrogen and phosphorus – for Bay restoration efforts by the six Bay...
Publication date: October 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. This document addresses the Chesapeake Bay priority habitat areas, and habitation restoration implementations.
Publication date: April 15, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This Backgrounder answers commonly asked questions about the new living resource-based approach to restoring Bay water quality.
Publication date: December 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This backgrounder provides an overview of the commitments in the Toxics 2000 Strategy
Publication date: April 01, 1987 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The second report from the Chesapeake Bay Program monitoring Subcommittee summarizes data collected from June 1984 through September 1985 at over 165 stations Bay-wide for the new coordinated monitoring program. This initial effort...
Publication date: March 19, 2009 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Bay Barometer: A Health and Restoration Assessment of the Chesapeake Bay and Watershed in 2008 provides detailed results on many aspects of the ecosystem and the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: January 01, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This MOU provides for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating exchange of...
Publication date: October 14, 1994 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
Overview of the reevaluation of the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy adopted by the Chesapeake Executive Council in January 1989, its 1992 reevaluation. The Strategy used the requirements of the 1987 Clean Water Act as...
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the Chesapeake Bay Program's reconfirmation to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus loading to the Bay from controllable sources by 40 percent by 2000, using 1985 as a base year. This directive also outlines systems and measures...
Publication date: October 01, 2003 | Type of document: Brochure
This brochure identifies the link between land use planning and water quality. A Dialogue meeting brings together stakeholders to begin watershed management planning
Publication date: July 08, 2002 | Type of document: Report
This is a PowerPoint presentation and a Word Document on a presentation by Richard Batiuk, EPA, to the public on July 8, 2002, in the PA Department of Environmental Protection's South Central Regional Office, Harrisburg.
Publication date: February 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Primary objective was to generate data that can be used with other toxicity data by the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a chronic copper criterion for protection of aquatic life in estuarine waters of the Chesapeake Bay...
Publication date: May 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
A newsletter acknowledging the importance of nutrient trading in meeting reduction goals, the process the nutrient trading negotiation team underwent to reach consensus, and a listing of the recommended fundamental principles and...
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Describes strategy devised by the Ecologically Valuable Species Workgroup, a group organized under the Living Resources Subcommittee of the Chesapeake Bay Program, that views the Bay as an holistic ecosystem
Publication date: August 01, 1989 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This Policy's intent is to guide the protection and restoration of all submerged aquatic vegetation within the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program
Publication date: October 18, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
An agreement to accept the Plan as a guide to conserving and protecting the black sea bass resource for long-term ecological, economic and social benefits.
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Overview of trends in the Bay's forests, land use in Bay watershed
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Benthic Process Model Review Team, assembled by the Modeling Subcommittee during Fall 2000, reviewed the benthic model developed for the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Model, a component of Chesapeake Bay Estuary Modeling Package....
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In January 1989, The Chesapeake Executive Council adopted the Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy in fulfillment of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement and committed to reevaluate the Strategy of the 1987 Clean Water Act as a foundation...
Publication date: March 25, 1996 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
The goal of the Special Strategy is to reduce the amount of nutrients, principally nitrogen and phosphorus, entering the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Program jurisdictions of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the...
Publication date: September 23, 2004 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
Representatives from the District, state, interstate and Federal entities with responsibility for the quality of the waters flowing through the creeks, streams and rivers of the Chesapeake Bay agree to cooperative efforts for monitoring...
Publication date: November 15, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOU serves to enhance the coordination between the United States Postal Districts located in the states of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet reviews the regulations guiding Bay restoration and provides an overview of the transition to the new water quality criteria.
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...
Publication date: September 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The second SAV Technical Synthesis revises and updates the first synthesis, by providing new light requirements for SAV through the water column and at the leaf surface, providing diagnostic tools for their application and interpretation,...
Publication date: October 29, 1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of information between agencies and to heighten the awareness and cooperation of the individual activities of the federal and state agencies responsible for the...
Publication date: October 15, 1991 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of information between agencies and to heighten the awareness and cooperation of the individual activities of the federal and state agencies responsible for the...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
New and enhanced environmental technologies are critical to reducing pollution releases, lowering compliance costs and improving production efficiency. The Chesapeake Bay Program has encouraged the development and implementation of...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of forest conservation issues: Growth management; distribution and fragmentation, integration in land use planning, regional perspective, riparian forests, and economic viability
Publication date: December 06, 2006 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Accurately conveying the health of the Chesapeake Bay and it watershed to policy makers, political leaders and watershed residents is critical to the maintaining the long-term momentum of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort.
This...
Publication date: January 01, 1988 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
This agreement is amplify the January 1988 Memorandum of Understanding between the USDA-forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, as it pertains to providing technical services to State Foresters and other cooperators for...
Publication date: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship.
Publication date: May 24, 1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The United State Coast Guard (USCG) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are charged with enforcing and administering a number of laws to protect the environment. Specific agency responsibilities are defined by...
Publication date: May 07, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
As a result of continued need for environmental protection and restoration, in 1987 the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, Montgomery County and Prince George's County signed an agreement to restore the Anacostia Watershed. ...
Publication date: October 14, 1994 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
This Directive addresses historical habitats in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the need to accelerate efforts to restore habitat across the basin to benefit living resources and directs the Bay Program to implement an integrated and...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
QAT is the Quality Assurance tool developed to improve the automated data integrity checks used by the Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) and to reduce the processing needed to put water quality data into the CBPO water quality...
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the dissolved oxygen criteria developed in 2001
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The validation and subsequent application of the current three dimensional numerical hydrodynamic model of Chesapeake Bay is presented. The numerical model solves conservation equations for water mass, momentum, salinity, and heat on a...
Publication date: March 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Background information on the use of build-out analysis and water quality/environmental modeling as land planning and water quality predictive management tools.
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This is the 1995-1996 Biennial Report on the Chesapeake Bay Living Resources.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
Guidelines for developing and revising fishery management plans addresses the policy of the Chesapeake Bay Program to advocate the protection of Bay habitat, maintenance of ecological relationships and elimination of over harvesting of...
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This policy's intent is to guide the protection and restoration of all submerged aquatic vegetation within the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries
Publication date: February 28, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document has been prepared to assist with requests for funding under Public Law 105-312, the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998. Funding will be awarded to projects submitted to the 2000 Demonstration Project Grant Program for...
Publication date: March 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This document describes the Chesapeake Bay Mainstem Water Quality Monitoring Program in general and provides detailed information about the existing program data base.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Goal was to conduct a probabilistic ecological risk assessment for tributyltin (TBT) in estuarine areas of the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using problem formulation, analysis and risk characterization.
Publication date: October 29, 1991 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
Publication date: January 25, 1994 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
Outlines actions to be implemented by the Chesapeake Bay Program with the partnership of the Department of Agriculture, state and local governments, the environmental and agricultural communities, the private sector and other Federal...
Publication date: June 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Executive Summary for the Elizabeth River Watershed Action Plan. This Watershed Action Plan completes a crucial planning phase for the Elizabeth River Project in carrying out its mission of a cleaner Elizabeth River, but by no means...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Represents a regional cooperative effort to gather all available information and assimilate best possible understanding of catfish biology, ecology and stock dynamics of native and introduced catfish species in the Chesapeake Bay system.
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Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides in depth information on tree projects funded through the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program.
Publication date: November 11, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
How riparian forests contribute to the protection, restoration, and stewardship of the Bay Watershed
Publication date: January 01, 2004 | Type of document: Backgrounder | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program provides grants to organizations working on a local level to protect and improve watersheds in the Chesapeake Bay basin, while building citizen-based resource stewardship. Under the 2004...
Publication date: October 23, 1992 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOU is the first step towards achieving environmental improvements in inner-city wards through community-based organizations, the parties of this agreement commit to coordinating personnel, programs and resources, to empower...
Publication date: April 09, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Following the release of the Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines - Draft, sixteen public meetings were collectively held throughout the watershed in each of the signatory jurisdictions. All jurisdictions received...
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
In 1996, the Chesapeake Executive Council signed the adoption statement on Local Government Participation Action Plan dealing with several key theme areas, including: land use management, stream corridor protection, infrastructure...
Publication date: November 04, 2010 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Map of Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants - 1998-2010 (JPG)
Publication date: August 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This workbook outlines more than 30 Pollution Prevention strategies a facility can implement to help protect and improve the Bay.
Publication date: April 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This is a compilation of articles based on the Chesapeake Bay Program: Science, Politics and Policy. These article include guest editors: Kent Mountford, Charles D. Rafkind, and John Donahue.
Publication date: September 05, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Agreement was created to support the State of Maryland's efforts to identify a long-term economically and environmentally sound dredged material placement plan, in accordance with Federal and State laws.
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Management Plan is to protect the black drum resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and coastal waters, while providing the greatest long-term ecological, social and economic benefits...
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This study conducts a screening level probabilistic ecological risk assessment for zinc using the distinct phases of problem formulation, analysis, and risk characterization. The Middle River had the highest potential ecological risk from...
Publication date: January 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
An assessment of the Fall-line (non-tidal) load of trace metals in the Potomac River. The trace metals to determine its contribution of metals to the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: November 28, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In it's Directive 04-2 Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps. the Chesapeake Executive Council in January 2005 directed several actions designed to support and accelerate implementation of the partner...
Publication date: February 23, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Reducing Pollution from Nonpoint Sources: The Chesapeake Experience February 26-28, 1990
Publication date: December 04, 2003 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The adoption statement acknowledges that the most essential action in meeting the 2010 goal of 185,000 acres of SAV is meeting water clarity criteria in areas designed for SAV use. The document describes the important roles SAV plays in...
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet lists the year 2000 recipients of the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Chesapeake 2000 takes stock of the progress made to date in restoring the Chesapeake Bay and renews the Chesapeake Bay Program's commitment to the ultimate goal of restoring the productivity, diversity and abundance of the living...
Publication date: November 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report provides general information on environmentally-friendly landscaping throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The text covers everything you need to know from soil erosion to environmentally-friendly fertilizers.
Publication date: September 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Recommendations for implementing a Chesapeake Information Management System derived from the Data Center Workshop of the Chesapeake Bay Program held on June 19 and 20, 1996.
Publication date: November 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The 1999 Living Resources Subcommittee's Annual Report informs LRSC members and interested parties of the workgroups' activities during 1999 and goals for 2000. Includes maps and links to other relevant sites.
Publication date: February 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
Edited verbatim proceedings of the water trails conference held in Shepherdstown, WV, October 9013, 1998. Discussion topics include: a keynote speech by U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes, Middle Potomac Water Trail, water trail case studies,...
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Report is meant to serve as a way to address land, growth and stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay Region. It can facilitate future and ongoing public or private actions to be taken by the Chesapeake Bay Program and other stakeholders...
Publication date: January 20, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Modern eutrophication modeling of the Chesapeake Bay commenced in 1987. Recently, refinements were made to the 1993 Chesapeake Bay Estuary Model Package (CBEMP) including increased grid resolution, inclusion of the continental shelf at...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This document addresses the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation and principally rooted vascular macrophytes in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay. Information was gathered using aerial photography and...
Publication date: July 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The coupled water quality-sediment diagensis model for the Chesapeake Bay has been enhanced with the addition of the dynamically-computed benthic biomass. The benthos was divided into two functional components, deposit-feeding polychaetes...
Publication date: October 03, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In January 2005, the Chesapeake Executive Council issued Directive 04-2 Meeting the Nutrient Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps. The Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to create a network of assistance programs to establish a...
Publication date: January 01, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In order to restore water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, states have developed Tributary Strategies to reduce pollution from nutrients (Nitrogen&Phosphorus) and sediment. The strategies contain a wide array of practices and initial cost...
Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Documents process used to develop priorities for Action for Land, Growth and Stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay Region 1996
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: September 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Corridor Plan addresses a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life in the Havre de Grace regions.
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
The purpose of this document is to present a geographical targeting approach for focusing chemical contam8inant remediation, reduction, prevention, protection, and assessment actions within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: October 01, 1984 | Type of document: Report
The objective of this study was to determine the influence of a range of salinities (5, 15 and 25 ppt) on the acute toxicity of total dissolved and free cadmium to sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus larvae and the copepod,...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Throughout this retrospective, the work to restore the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay is highlighted. Progress in this arena is a kind of generic target by which our experience improving the health of the Bay can, to some,...
Publication date: July 16, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report presents the results of the combined Phase I/Phase II effort. Model calibration results are presented for hydrology, non-point loadings, and in-stream water quality for numerous sites throughout the Bay drainage. In...
Publication date: September 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Virginia regional and local stakeholders and partners involved in the nutrient reduction goal setting and tributary strategy development process were provided with in-depth information of direct relevance from the best data available to...
Publication date: February 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
An overview of the Anacostia Ecosystem Initiative, EPA, Region III, and its goals for the Anacostia River and its surrounding communities.
Publication date: November 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Addresses policy tools that can be used to better achieve the dual objectives of improved environmental quality and more flexible, cost-effective environmental policies
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This Work Plan is a key initiative of Federal agencies and the U.S. Corps of Engineers. It establishes interstate ecosystem management concepts and the establishment of the Anacostia as a National Urban Watershed Restoration Model.
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Publication date: January 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Shares research results relating to distribution of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, nitrogen and phosphorus loading load by land use, cost analysis summary by management practice for agreement states, and overviews of individual program...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Focusing on objectives outlined in a pilot study created to define the magnitude and timing of toxic substances entering the Chesapeake Bay from the area above the fall line of the Susquehanna and James rivers.
Publication date: August 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Beginning in September 1985, a hypoxia program was conceived by the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Effects Committee as an ecologically oriented study focusing on system-level effects. In 1990, the Chesapeake Bay Office joined the CBEEC...
Publication date: December 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
The distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SSV), principally rooted vascular macrophytes in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and the coastal bays of the Delmarva Peninsula, was mapped from 1,728 black and white aerial...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
A report on the Community Watershed Initiative Strategy: Recognizing Shared Vision, Realizing Shared Goals
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report and recommendation for the nonpoint source evaluation panel
Publication date: October 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A Synthesis of Tributary Strategies for the Bay's Ten Watersheds: Bay Program plan for cooperative, integrated and consistent scientific approach to nitrogen and phosphorous reduction in Bay that provides the States of Maryland,...
Publication date: December 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
The distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), principally rooted vascular macrophytes in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and the coastal bays of the Delmarva Peninsula, was mapped from 1,987 black and white aerial photographs....
Publication date: May 12, 2009 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
2009 State of the Chesapeake Bay Program: Summary Report to the Chesapeake Executive Council
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This study examines the relative importance of food versus hypoxia and other factors as limitations on biomass and production of benthic macrofaunal communities in shallow (2m) and deep (>12m) stations of the mesohaline regions of...
Publication date: June 03, 1994 | Type of document: Report
A collection of presentations from the largest forum to focus exclusively on Bay watershed research and its application to support environmental management decisions.
Publication date: December 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Documents current levels of monitoring carried out by Bay jurisdictions for the purpose of tracking forestry Best Management Practices implementation and effectiveness
Publication date: March 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document presents fundamental principles and guidelines for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This document is not a regulation. Rather, it is intended to be used on a voluntary basis as a guide for those Bay...
Publication date: August 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This report details the Chesapeake Bay Program's Living Resources Subcommittee accomplishments for 1997. Accomplishments in wetlands, bay grasses, oyster reef restoration, fisheries management, fish passage, habitat restoration, exotic...
Publication date: December 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
This is the fourth biennial progress report of the progress made by Federal agencies on the commitments made in the Agreement of Federal Agencies on Ecosystem Management in the Chesapeake Bay, signed on July 14, 1994 and the second...
Publication date: April 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Overview including The Agreement, Federal agency involvement, and the progress made in implementing the Agreement, an item-by item basis according to the 20 specific commitments subscribed by the signatories.
Publication date: August 01, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Provides a list of aquatic and aquatic-associated organisms found in recent decades in the Chesapeake Bay Basin.
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Provides field and laboratory methods and associated quality control procedures and criteria intended to generate data of known and documented quality for use in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program.
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal
Publication date: November 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of distribution and abundance of SAV in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay in 1995. Chincoteague Bay, for the purpose of this report, includes four barrier island bays
Publication date: November 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on the effect of pH on the release of phosphorous from the Potomac River sediment.
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A predictive model of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) biomass is coupled to a eutrophication model of the Chesapeake Bay. Domain of the model includes the mainstem of the bay as well as tidal portions of the major embayments and...
Publication date: May 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Addresses patterns in fisheries harvests and abundance, species interactions within Chesapeake Bay, multispecies management concepts and approaches, and potential for multispecies approaches in Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: September 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of the distribution and abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and four Delmarva island barrier bays in 1996. Black-and-white photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source...
Publication date: December 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of distribution and abundance of SAV in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay in 1994. Black and white aerial photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source of information used in the study...
Publication date: September 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Presents characterizations of current status of 26 indicator species and two biological communities in each of 12 basins that comprise the Chesapeake Bay. The list of key species examined included 10 species of finfish, four species of...
Publication date: July 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests.
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Programs' objectives were to monitor the bacteriological quality of Maryland's shellfish harvesting waters to assure adequate public health protection from shellfish unsafe for human consumption and to assist in the identification and...
Publication date: October 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Several major revisions were made to the 1994 Fall Line Toxics Program. Organic compounds were analyzed for both the dissolved and particulate phases and included forty constituents for the 1994 study.
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This report discusses the improvement of public access to the waters of the Bay, one of the major initiatives of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of 1987. Increased public awareness through expanded Bay access opportunities is considered...
Publication date: June 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The Strategy Reevaluation was designed to evaluate toxic conditions of the Bay, assess the effects of current programs, and identify additional actions needed to further reduce toxics impacts in the Bay.
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Virginia, where 57% of the survey's respondent were familiar with the Bay, had 56% of its respondents say they believed funding should be spent to reduce water pollution.
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests. Toxicity of ambient estuarine water and sediment was evaluated during the fall of 1994 at six stations in...
Publication date: January 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the historical background, environmental significance, and current status of forested areas in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Publication date: December 14, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is the workshop proceedings held on December 14, 1998. Its purpose, as delineated on the agenda (see Appendix I) was to initiate a process to develop nutrient trading policies and guidelines to achieve and maintain the Nutrient Cap...
Publication date: January 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report
This report summaries the key findings shared at a conference held in November 1999 and provides a set of recommendation targeted at various sectors of society that can influence public policy aimed at mitigating the negative aspects of...
Publication date: September 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Commitments are organized under four areas -- pollution prevention, regulatory program implementation, regional focus, and directed toxics assessment.
Publication date: December 15, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is the updated Guide to accompany the current Living Resources Biological Monitoring Data. Guide topics include: obtaining data, data structures, CIMS compliant data dictionaries, and helpful hints to better interpret this...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement set a goal to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous nutrients entrance into the Bay by 40% by year 2000. In 1992's Amendments to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, partners agreed to maintain the 40% goal beyond the...
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The objective of this project was to develop a practical and conceptually sound framework for assessing benthic environmental conditions in Chesapeake Bay that would address general constraints and limitations; i.e., naturally varying...
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on nutrient dissolved oxygen dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Federal Workplan describes each participating agency's Bay initiatives, the current level of coordination, outlines a process for expanding that cooperation, and points to future directions for agency efforts in support of the...
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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: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on targeting toxics, a technical work plan
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In 1983, the Chesapeake Bay Program identified excess nutrients as the primary reason for water quality decline in the Chesapeake. To quantify the nutrients contributing to eutrophication and the nutr9ent reductions necessary to restore...
Publication date: April 09, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program completed a document delineating nutrient trading guidelines entitled Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines - Draft and made this document available to the public for review on September 8,...
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This Work Plan outlines the continuing Federal support for the Anacostia watershed restoration effort, and applying six restoration goals identified in the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee's Six Point Action, examines Federal...
Publication date: April 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This pilot study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column, sediment and suborganismal tests.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Goals of Chesapeake Bay's Toxics of Concern Workgroup study were to conduct partial life cycle toxicity studies with atrazine for the Sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus), commonly found in Chesapeake Bay. Data will be used for the...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds
Publication date: January 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A summary of a 1992 workshop, the purpose of which was to provide a forum for investigators' progress reports, the fostering of collaborative research, evaluation of the Toxics Research Program; and dialogue among researchers , managers...
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This report is a summary of Phase I and II of a study designed to provide necessary data and recommendations for development of estuarine acute and chronic atrazine criterion for the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This is a report.
Publication date: April 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This paper addresses the need for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay, the process to develop baywide guidelines, and activities taken elsewhere in the Bay region.
Publication date: October 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
How-to information for local governments on six land use management techniques that can be used to achieve community goals, preserve local natural resources, and protect the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: July 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
During the past several years, considerable attention has been directed at the potential environmental impacts of agriculture in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. A primary focus has been on the potential nutrient loadings to surface and...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Outlines standard operating procedures for conducting sub-chronic toxicity tests with sago pondweed.
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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...
Publication date: June 26, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: January 29, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This guidance document will better facilitate efforts to ensure Chesapeake Bay Program funds continue to be directed towards achieving the CBP's restoration and protection goals.
Publication date: December 15, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document describes how to access biological monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay Program's Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS).
Publication date: September 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
This is a report.
Publication date: March 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
replaced by A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Species - 1998
Publication date: July 21, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document summarizes the ideas and goals from this working session. These ideas and goals will be considered for the Toxics Strategy (2000) and the Chesapeake Bay Agreement(2000).
Publication date: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: December 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report documents the pollutant removal efficiency of commonly used and innovative urban stormwater practices. One hundred and twenty-three studies, spanning a 19-year period, are summarized in this report.
Publication date: January 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report
Numerous SAV ground surveys have been conducted but most have been limited to specific sections. No one ground survey has delineated baywide SAV patterns. The goal of the 1989 work was to continue the annual monitoring of SAV on a baywide...
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This report provides an interim assessment of toxic substance loadings being delivered to the Chesapeake Bay from the Susquehanna, Potomac and James rivers.
Publication date: December 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This policy document considers only first time introductions of non-indigenous, non-naturalized aquatic species. Organisms, including marsh-dwellers, that live on land or in the soil are not included in the scope of this policy.
Publication date: February 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Evaluation of ambient toxicity of living resource habitats in Chesapeake Bay during the fall of 1995 at Pamunkey River (two stations), York River (two stations), James River (two stations), Willoughby Bay (one station) and Lynnhaven River...
Publication date: May 31, 2002 | Type of document: Report
The panel recommends disapproval of proposal as presented.
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of distribution and abundance of SAV in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and Chincoteague Bay in 1993. Black-and-white aerial photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source of information.
Publication date: January 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This document addresses the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation and principally rooted vascular macrophytes in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay. Information was gathered using aerial photography and...
Publication date: February 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Analyzes the shaping factors of the Southern Maryland Heritage area, which includes Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties, and recommends policies and actions needed to preserve, restore and promote an improved quality of life.
...
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Designed to be a resource for a diverse technical and managerial audience
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
A report on the 1997 Chesapeake Bay Program Regional Land Forums
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
An introduction to the issues and ecosystems of the Great Waters Program.
Publication date: December 20, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Results of the Mainstem Coordinated Split Sample Program from the years 1994 through 1998.
Publication date: April 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
A 120-member Watershed Action Team worked on four taskforces to develop a restoration plan: Habitat and Living Resources; Sediment Quality; Water Quality, and Toxics Reduction. The Team recommends 18 restoration implementation actions,...
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This Work Plan outlines the continuing Federal support for the Anacostia watershed restoration effort, and applying six restoration goals identified in the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee's Six Point Action, examines Federal...
Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Progress made in implementing the Agreement on an item-by-item basis according to the 20 specific commitments to which the signatories have subscribed.
Publication date: July 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
An important criterion applied in this plan is the focus on long-term, baseline monitoring which will provide data for the characterization of living resource populations and for tracking trends in their abundance over time.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Addendum to the Fall Line Toxics 1992 Final Report
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
A geographical targeting approach for focusing chemical contaminant remediation, reduction, prevention, protection, and assessment actions within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: November 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report is an introduction to market based strategies for Chesapeake Bay Policy and management
Publication date: December 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
Suspension Feeders: A Workshop to Assess What we Know; Don't Know and need to know to determine their effects on water quality.
Publication date: June 22, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document summarizes the proceedings of the critical issues forum held on June 22, 1999: Achieving A Toxics Free Bay - The Role of Point Sources. The forum was comprised of a series of presentations, followed by three breakout...
Publication date: June 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report highlights the Federal activities for Bay restoration and stewardship from April 1992 to April 1999. This report is the third biennial report of the progress made by Federal agencies on the commitments made in the 1994 and...
Publication date: October 25, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document summarizes the goals developed by industry stakeholders for consideration in the revised Toxics Strategy (2000) and the Chesapeake Bay Agreement (2000).
Publication date: August 17, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document summarizes the proceedings of the critical issues forum held on June 22, 1999: Achieving a Toxics Free Bay _ The Role of Point Sources. This forum was the first in a series of critical issues forums held in response to the...
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document contains the appendices to the Chesapeake Bay Basin Toxics Loading and Release Inventory point source loadings chapter. The appendices highlight the point source loads by facility, the chemical categories reported by SIC...
Publication date: October 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
This manual is designed to assist local governments throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed with developing or enhancing household hazardous waste management programs.
Publication date: July 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This summary of the Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia stakeholder roundtables reflects discussions and recommendations made during the roundtables a well as follow-up written responses annotated on the draft commitments...
Publication date: August 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Implementation Plan for Removing Impediments to Migratory Fishes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Annual Progress Report 1994
Publication date: July 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A report on the Restoration of the Anacostia River.
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This study was designed to determine the influence of a range of salinities on the acute toxicity of atrazine to the copepod, and the sheepshead minnow larvae. An additional objective of the study was to provide acute atrazine toxicity...
Publication date: October 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
This study recommends the adoption of forest landscape policy goals and recommends a variety of specific improvements and additions to existing tax, acquisition, forest management, land use and urban forest programs that would improve the...
Publication date: February 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Information on the financial cost effectiveness and nutrient removal effectiveness of point and nonpoint source technologies in the Chesapeake Bay Basin. Expresses costs on an equivalent annual basis, so that relative comparisons can be...
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
A STAC Workshop structured to learn about alternative approaches to fisheries ,amage,emt tjat are being applied throughout the United States to determine what applicability if any, they might have to Chesapeake Bay fisheries management....
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
In 1997 and 1998 the CBP signatories opened 294.3 miles of blocked tributary habitat to migratory fish and 67 miles to resident fish (a total of 361.3 miles) within the Bay watershed. Since the program's inception, almost 80 projects have...
Publication date: November 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A yearly report on ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: August 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A computerized data base of Chesapeake Bay point source discharges has been developed to document information on point source pollutant input to the Bay. Installed on the Chesapekae Bay Program computer and available to registered users,...
Publication date: May 12, 2009 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Charting the Chesapeake's Recovery: The Course for Clean Water in the Bay and its Watershed
Publication date: June 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
The study suggests a weighted approach, which incorporates the fact that a detection limit is a measure of precision of the data.
Publication date: March 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
Publication date: October 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Annual progress report: Description of all fish passage development, reintroduction efforts, and habitat assessment activities by signatory jurisdictions. Summary of federal agency activities in 1996, as well as actions planned for 1997.
...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Federal Facilities Strategy recognizes that all of the federal departments and agencies with real estate in the Bay drainage area have the potential to affect the water quality and living resources of the Bay.
Publication date: May 12, 2009 | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
Chesapeake Bay Protection and Restoration Presidential Executive Order
Publication date: September 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This summary of trends in dissolved oxygen is one in a series of reports on the progress toward and reevaluation of the 40 percent nutrient reduction goal. Reports describing trends in phosphorus and nitrogen in Chesapeake Bay are...
Publication date: July 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
Representatives from the Bay basin jurisdictions presented findings from their respective water column contaminant monitoring programs, with emphasis on concentration ranges observed at Bay tidal water stations.
Publication date: January 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Commission's Ballast Water Work Group. It provides a review of unintentional introductions via ballast water from an ecological, economic, and cultural point of view; it identifies...
Publication date: April 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A compilation of toxic substances detected in, released, or applied to all media (water, soil, sediment, tissue and air) within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: March 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
Evaluation of ambient toxicity to living resources during late summer/early fall of 1997 in the Elizabeth River (4 stations) and South River (4 stations).
Publication date: August 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. This is a report on Guidance for Protecting Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay from Physical Disruption
Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Includes formal Adoption Statement signed by its six partners, and an overview of an action plan in which local governments play a substantive role in protection and restoration efforts for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Publication date: April 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This manual catalogs local programs in the watershed that positively impacts, either directly or indirectly, the quality of the Chesapeake Bay, the surrounding watershed and the quality of life for its living resources.
Publication date: August 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
The Who's Who is a contact book which includes the organization of the Chesapeake Bay Program into subcommittees, committees and workgroups. Memberships listed and an index is located in the back of the document which includes street...
Publication date: March 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report describes the current programs to ameliorate nonpoint sources of pollution to the Bay that have been developed by the four jurisdictions in cooperation with other agencies; the achievements to date in terms of pollutant...
Publication date: December 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy.
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Strategies to decrease the risks of future introductions of nutrients through ballast water management.
Publication date: February 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the financial cost effectiveness of point and nonpoint source nutrient reduction technologies in the Chesapeake Bay Basin
Publication date: February 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A Synthesis of Living Resource Habitat Requirements with Guidelines for Their Use in Evaluating Model Results and Monitoring Information
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The goal of this study was to evaluate 25 resident Chesapeake Bay species (vertebrates, invertebrates and plants) as potential candidates for future Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) development for estuarine water column toxicity...
Publication date: September 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
A report on the Distribution of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay - 1986
Publication date: August 01, 1986 | Type of document: Report
The Plan calls for the continuation of all of the State's existing programs, because collectively they are producing results. IN the case of some regulatory programs, the plan commits MDE to specific administrative actions involving...
Publication date: August 01, 1984 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on trends in phosphorus, nitrogen, secchi depths and dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay for the years 1984-1992
Publication date: June 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This study's goal is to assess the comparability of water quality results from the 10 analytical laboratories that participate in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. This goal is being achieved by identifying any parameters that have...
Publication date: March 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the water quality data collected by the Conestoga River volunteer monitors with particular emphasis on the concentration of nitrate.
Publication date: March 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on arsenic transport and impact in the Chesapeake Bay Food webs.
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: August 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
A report on pesticide use in the Chesapeake Bay Basin
Publication date: November 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Appendices July 1990-December 1991. This is an archived document.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Appendices for the CBADS Phase II Report. Contains tables of data collected during the study.
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This report outlines the major accomplishments of the Waterfowl Workgroup in 1991.
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This is not a report on the State of the Bay. It is a collection of images that attempts to capture the vast bulk of studies, the depth of the research, and the actions and commitment of the people involved in the restoration of the...
Publication date: May 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This document is a first approach to develop consensus protocols for the use of biological indicators to monitor the effects of toxic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay habitats important to living resources.
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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...
Publication date: March 01, 1984 | Type of document: Report
Monitoring of pesticides in Maryland surface waters.
Publication date: September 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report contains reports from several subcommittes, including: Techncial Assistance, Outreach and Education Subcommittee; Intergovernmental Coordination and Partnership subcommittee and the Research Subcommittee on agricultural...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In January 1989, the Chesapeake Executive Council adopted the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy in fulfillment of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement commitment and pledged to reevaluate the Strategy in 1992. The...
Publication date: June 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
The major recommendations of this plan is to institute a Baywide, core living resources monitoring program, built upon existing programs. Many of the detailed recommendations call for continuation, sometimes with modification or review,...
Publication date: May 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
The major objective of the Coordinated Split Sample Program is to establish a measure of comparability between sampling and analytical operations for water quality monitoring basinwide.
Publication date: January 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
This is an annual report on the Coordinated Split Sample Program.
Publication date: May 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This workshop resulted in general agreement on recommendations for a list of suitable methodologies and species that are appropriate from bioassessment.
Publication date: December 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The first progress report under the 1988 Baywide Nutrient Reduction Strategy describes implementation progress and analytic refinements promised in the original strategy
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: December 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This project was undertaken to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program with an assessment of chemical analytical capabilities currently available in the Bay region and to provide guidance on how to proceed with toxics analysis in the future.
...
Publication date: December 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
A report from the Chesapeake Executive Council on the adoption of the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
Annual Progress Report
Publication date: January 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
none provided
Publication date: October 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
This is a draft report on Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy Appendices.
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
Proceedings of the Atmospheric Deposition Critical Issue forum sponsored by the Toxics Subcommittee as part of the ongoing reevaluation of the Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy.
Publication date: October 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
Focuses on a critical review of available data and information for evidence of impacts on Chesapeake Bay basin birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians through exposure and uptake of toxic substances.
Publication date: April 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report
Results of monitoring of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in Chesapeake Bay and tributaries.
Publication date: May 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
Identifies and provides concise documentation on key toxic substances either adversely impacting the Bay system or for which the reasonable potential to do so exists.
Publication date: September 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. Attention focused on water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay has revealed that agricultural activities are in large part responsible for the degradation of water quality and...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
Agreement Commitment Report: Objectives and commitments for restoring and protecting the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: July 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
Review and assessment of implementation status and effectiveness of seven Chesapeake Bay Program Fishery Management Plans (FMPs).
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
The major recommendation of this plan is to institute a Baywide core living resources monitoring program, built upon existing programs. Many of the detailed recommendations call for continuation, sometimes with modification or review, of...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Addendum to the Fall Line Toxics 1992 Final Report
Publication date: September 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary and the first to be targeted for restoration as a single ecosystem. The Chesapeake Bay Program-the cooperative compact forged to spearhead the cleanup-has become a model for other...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
none provided
Publication date: July 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
The workshops addressed major categories of toxicological research, including suborganismal toxicity testing, whole organism toxicity, contaminant fate and transport, and ecological risk assessment.
Publication date: March 26, 2002 | Type of document:
This press release announces 2001 bald eagle data for the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Publication date: | Type of document: Meeting Material | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: July 31, 2001 | Type of document:
this press release announces the publication of a Chesapeake Bay GAteways Network map and guide
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: March 02, 2001 | Type of document:
This press release announces the addition of 2 sites in Maryland to the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Publication date: March 02, 2001 | Type of document:
This press release announces the addition of 9 sites in Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Publication date: June 08, 2001 | Type of document:
This press release announces the presentation of a National Park Service grant to improve the Chemung Basin River Trail
Publication date: | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
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: 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...
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...
Publication date: | Type of document: Meeting Material | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
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...
Publication date: | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
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...
Publication date: | Type of document: | Download: Electronic Version
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
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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...
Publication date: October 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. The Chesapeake Bay Programs Chesapeake 2000 agreement commitment number 4.2.2 calls for the partners to identify and remove state and local impediments to low impact development designs to...
Publication date: December 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Heavy fishing pressure, habitat degradation and high disease mortality have driven native oyster (Crassostrea virginica) populations to historic low levels in Chesapeake Bay. In response, the states of Maryland and Virginia are...
Publication date: February 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Streams are in integral part of the Chesapeake Bays natural infrastructure. Stream networks interconnect the land, water, living resources and human communities of the Bay watershed (Chesapeake...
Publication date: August 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committees (STAC) workshop on Urban Tree Canopy was created in partnership with the Forestry Workgroup to help jurisdictions implement the urban canopy cover...
Publication date: August 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Globally and nationally, persuasive arguments have been developed to promote increased implementation of spatial measures to conserve and protect marine ecosystems, to preserve or restore...
Publication date: January 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. Better quantifying the lag time between changes in nutrient and sediment sources in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and improvement in the Bays water quality and submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) is...
Publication date: March 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Recent publications such as the Chesapeake 2000 agreement and the Fisheries Ecosystem Plan reflect the growing interest in integrated management of water quality and fisheries. The US EPA Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) has invested in a...
Publication date: May 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) Shallow Water Monitoring workshop endorsed the current 3-year combined spatial and temporal coverage design of the Shallow Water Monitoring Program (SWMP)...
Publication date: January 01, 1982 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This primer serves as an introduction to several forthcoming Chesapeake Bay Program publications. These publications will describe the results of the scientific investigations and identify management solutions to specific Bay resource...
Publication date: April 01, 1987 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The second report from the Chesapeake Bay Program Monitoring Subcommittee summarizes data collected from June 1984 through September 1985 at over 165 station Bay-wide for the new coordinated monitoring program. this initial effort...
Publication date: September 01, 1982 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is the second of the Program's four final reports. It is intended to share the results and significance of the Chesapeake Bay Program's technical studies with managers, decision-makers and citizens.
Publication date: September 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report provides an overview of the major research findings and range of pollution controls recommended by the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program, in accordance with P.L. 94-116 passed by the 94th Congress on...
Publication date: August 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program has been in existence since the mid 1970s. This progress report is intended to give you a quick overview of the program's many accomplishments, as well as a look at the challenges we face in the near future.
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Publication date: January 05, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
For the last 20 years, the Chesapeake Bay Program partners have used various forms of a basic segmentation scheme to organize the collection, analysis and presentation of environmental data. The Chesapeake Bay Program Segmentation Scheme...
Publication date: October 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In October 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the Technical Support Document for Identification of Chesapeake Bay Designated Uses and Attainability (Technical Support Document) in cooperation with and on behalf...
Publication date: October 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In April 2003, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published the Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries (Regional Criteria Guidance)...
Publication date: January 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In December 1983 seven hundred legislators, administrators, scientists and Bay users met in Fairfax, VA to develop an action agenda for Chesapeake Bay. This historic conference was convened by the Governors of VA, MD, and PA and the mayor...
Publication date: October 01, 1985 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The consumate purpose of the Chesapeake Bay restoration and Protection Program is to improve and protect the water quality and living resources of the Chesapeake Bay estuarine system to restore and maintain the Bay's ecological integrity,...
Publication date: October 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document includes the seven appendices to the report Chesapeake Bay: A frame work for action developed by the US Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. The report and its appendices describe the state of the Bay,...
Publication date: October 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document includes the four appendices to the report Chesapeake Bay: A Profile of Environmental Change developed by the Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. The report and its appendices provide a characterization...
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Protection strategies for preserving and restoring stream corridors.
Publication date: December 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
To show support of these goals, the Chesapeake Executive Council (CEC) made commitments to develop and adopt guidelines for the protection of water quality and habitat conditions necessary to support the living resources found in the...
Publication date: December 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
Publication date: June 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
EPA has defined the water quality conditions through the Chesapeake Bay-specific water quality criteria for dissolved oxygen, water clarity and chlorophyll a in this publication.
Publication date: November 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document contains Appendixes to the NRT cost report titled Nutrient Reduction Technology Cost Estimations for Point-Sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Publication date: November 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report is to provide costs estimates for treatment technologies associated with varying concentration levels of nitrogen and phosphorus removal from industrial and municipal wastewater plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The data...
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: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
In this publication, we report on the status of our progress toward the goals we set or renewed in Chesapeake 2000. Evaluating the condition of the Chesapeake Bay is a complex process that must include careful examination of the status...
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Study to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests in concert with fish and benthic community assessments.
Publication date: July 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The bojective of this study was to develop statistical diagnositc tools that would allow environmental managers to identify potential sources of anthropogenic stress to benthic communities within the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: December 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the results of the 1994-1998 coordinated split sample program for the mainstem Chesapeake Bay Parameters with poor agreement are investigated, problems identified, and coorective actions are taken to improve...
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Guidelines, requirements and procedures for field and measurements, field sampling and laboratory analysis in support of the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. Quality control protocols are specified.
Publication date: September 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A summary of the recommendations from the Cap Issue and Policy Groups providing guidance for program planningregarding the nutrient cap.
Publication date: November 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The 1999 Living Resources Subcommittee's Annual Report informs LRSC members and interested parties of the workgroups' activities during 1999 and goals for 2000. Includes maps and links to other relevant sites.
Publication date: August 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This workbook outlines more than 30 Pollution Prevention strategies a facility can implement to help protect and improve the Bay.
Publication date: September 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The second SAV Technical Synthesis revises and updates the first synthesis, by providing new light requirements for SAV through the water column and at the leaf surface, providing diagnostic tools for their application and interpretation,...
Publication date: December 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
The distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV), principally rooted vascular macrophytes in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and the coastal bays of the Delmarva Peninsula, was mapped from 1,987 black and white aerial photographs....
Publication date: December 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
The distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation (SSV), principally rooted vascular macrophytes in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and the coastal bays of the Delmarva Peninsula, was mapped from 1,728 black and white aerial...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds
Publication date: July 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
During the past several years, considerable attention has been directed at the potential environmental impacts of agriculture in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. A primary focus has been on the potential nutrient loadings to surface and...
Publication date: June 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report highlights the Federal activities for Bay restoration and stewardship from April 1992 to April 1999. This report is the third biennial report of the progress made by Federal agencies on the commitments made in the 1994 and...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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: July 21, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document summarizes the ideas and goals from this working session. These ideas and goals will be considered for the Toxics Strategy (2000) and the Chesapeake Bay Agreement(2000).
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The validation and subsequent application of the current three dimensional numerical hydrodynamic model of Chesapeake Bay is presented. The numerical model solves conservation equations for water mass, momentum, salinity, and heat on a...
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A predictive model of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) biomass is coupled to a eutrophication model of the Chesapeake Bay. Domain of the model includes the mainstem of the bay as well as tidal portions of the major embayments and...
Publication date: January 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This study examines the relative importance of food versus hypoxia and other factors as limitations on biomass and production of benthic macrofaunal communities in shallow (2m) and deep (>12m) stations of the mesohaline regions of...
Publication date: February 28, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document has been prepared to assist with requests for funding under Public Law 105-312, the Chesapeake Bay Initiative Act of 1998. Funding will be awarded to projects submitted to the 2000 Demonstration Project Grant Program for...
Publication date: June 26, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: December 20, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Results of the Mainstem Coordinated Split Sample Program from the years 1994 through 1998.
Publication date: January 20, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Modern eutrophication modeling of the Chesapeake Bay commenced in 1987. Recently, refinements were made to the 1993 Chesapeake Bay Estuary Model Package (CBEMP) including increased grid resolution, inclusion of the continental shelf at...
Publication date: December 15, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is the updated Guide to accompany the current Living Resources Biological Monitoring Data. Guide topics include: obtaining data, data structures, CIMS compliant data dictionaries, and helpful hints to better interpret this...
Publication date: October 01, 1999 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Watersheds, An Economic Resource: Commerce, Productivity and Transportation, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of...
Publication date: October 22, 2006 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Retaining and expanding forests in the Chesapeake Bay watershed is critical to our success in restoring the Chesapeake Bay. Forests are the most beneficial land use for protecting water quality, due to their ability to capture, filter...
Publication date: November 20, 2008 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council issued the Directive: Leading the Nation in Development of a Sustainable Next-Generation Biofuels Industry (08-1). This directive adopts the findings of the Report: Next Generation Biofuels -- Taking the...
Publication date: December 14, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is the workshop proceedings held on December 14, 1998. Its purpose, as delineated on the agenda (see Appendix I) was to initiate a process to develop nutrient trading policies and guidelines to achieve and maintain the Nutrient Cap...
Publication date: February 23, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Reducing Pollution from Nonpoint Sources: The Chesapeake Experience February 26-28, 1990
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
A STAC Workshop structured to learn about alternative approaches to fisheries ,amage,emt tjat are being applied throughout the United States to determine what applicability if any, they might have to Chesapeake Bay fisheries management....
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Publication date: April 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
Proceedings of the Atmospheric Deposition Critical Issue forum sponsored by the Toxics Subcommittee as part of the ongoing reevaluation of the Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Appendices for the CBADS Phase II Report. Contains tables of data collected during the study.
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document contains the appendices to the Chesapeake Bay Basin Toxics Loading and Release Inventory point source loadings chapter. The appendices highlight the point source loads by facility, the chemical categories reported by SIC...
Publication date: October 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
Focuses on a critical review of available data and information for evidence of impacts on Chesapeake Bay basin birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians through exposure and uptake of toxic substances.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Outlines standard operating procedures for conducting sub-chronic toxicity tests with sago pondweed.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Outlines standard operating procedures for conducting acute and chronic toxicity tests with Eurytemora.
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The goal of this study was to evaluate 25 resident Chesapeake Bay species (vertebrates, invertebrates and plants) as potential candidates for future Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) development for estuarine water column toxicity...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
Agreement Commitment Report: Objectives and commitments for restoring and protecting the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: December 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy.
Publication date: March 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
This is a report on arsenic transport and impact in the Chesapeake Bay Food webs.
Publication date: October 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Annual progress report: Description of all fish passage development, reintroduction efforts, and habitat assessment activities by signatory jurisdictions. Summary of federal agency activities in 1996, as well as actions planned for 1997.
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Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Provides field and laboratory methods and associated quality control procedures and criteria intended to generate data of known and documented quality for use in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program.
Publication date: June 03, 1994 | Type of document: Report
A collection of presentations from the largest forum to focus exclusively on Bay watershed research and its application to support environmental management decisions.
Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Documents process used to develop priorities for Action for Land, Growth and Stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay Region 1996
Publication date: December 15, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document describes how to access biological monitoring data from the Chesapeake Bay Program's Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS).
Publication date: March 01, 2006 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
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: May 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Addresses patterns in fisheries harvests and abundance, species interactions within Chesapeake Bay, multispecies management concepts and approaches, and potential for multispecies approaches in Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: March 01, 2006 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay 2005 Health and Restoration Assessment is presented in two parts. In Part One: Ecosystem Health, the most current data available are used to provide a scientifically based assessment of the Health of the Bay. In Part...
Publication date: October 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
This manual is designed to assist local governments throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed with developing or enhancing household hazardous waste management programs.
Publication date: June 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
The major recommendations of this plan is to institute a Baywide, core living resources monitoring program, built upon existing programs. Many of the detailed recommendations call for continuation, sometimes with modification or review,...
Publication date: August 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Strategies to decrease the risks of future introductions of nutrients through ballast water management.
Publication date: March 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Background information on the use of build-out analysis and water quality/environmental modeling as land planning and water quality predictive management tools.
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate summer flounder stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term...
Publication date: October 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report summaries the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel. The panel was established to identify funding sources sufficient to implement basinwide clean-up plans so that the Bay and its tidal tributaries...
Publication date: March 07, 2006 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
An agreement that approves expedited method for handling changes in fishery management plans as warranted.
Publication date: June 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
The study suggests a weighted approach, which incorporates the fact that a detection limit is a measure of precision of the data.
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
A report on the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan.
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This report discusses the improvement of public access to the waters of the Bay, one of the major initiatives of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement of 1987. Increased public awareness through expanded Bay access opportunities is considered...
Publication date: January 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report
This report summaries the key findings shared at a conference held in November 1999 and provides a set of recommendation targeted at various sectors of society that can influence public policy aimed at mitigating the negative aspects of...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
Annual Progress Report
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: December 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
Suspension Feeders: A Workshop to Assess What we Know; Don't Know and need to know to determine their effects on water quality.
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
The major recommendation of this plan is to institute a Baywide core living resources monitoring program, built upon existing programs. Many of the detailed recommendations call for continuation, sometimes with modification or review, of...
Publication date: September 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Corridor Plan addresses a cooperative effort to improve the quality of life in the Havre de Grace regions.
Publication date: March 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This document describes the Chesapeake Bay Mainstem Water Quality Monitoring Program in general and provides detailed information about the existing program data base.
Publication date: July 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
Review and assessment of implementation status and effectiveness of seven Chesapeake Bay Program Fishery Management Plans (FMPs).
Publication date: April 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
A 120-member Watershed Action Team worked on four taskforces to develop a restoration plan: Habitat and Living Resources; Sediment Quality; Water Quality, and Toxics Reduction. The Team recommends 18 restoration implementation actions,...
Publication date: June 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Executive Summary for the Elizabeth River Watershed Action Plan. This Watershed Action Plan completes a crucial planning phase for the Elizabeth River Project in carrying out its mission of a cleaner Elizabeth River, but by no means...
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of distribution and abundance of SAV in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries and Chincoteague Bay in 1993. Black-and-white aerial photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source of information.
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This document addresses the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation and principally rooted vascular macrophytes in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay. Information was gathered using aerial photography and...
Publication date: January 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This document addresses the distribution of submerged aquatic vegetation and principally rooted vascular macrophytes in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay. Information was gathered using aerial photography and...
Publication date: January 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report
Numerous SAV ground surveys have been conducted but most have been limited to specific sections. No one ground survey has delineated baywide SAV patterns. The goal of the 1989 work was to continue the annual monitoring of SAV on a baywide...
Publication date: April 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report
Results of monitoring of submerged aquatic vegetation (SAV) in Chesapeake Bay and tributaries.
Publication date: September 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This summary of trends in dissolved oxygen is one in a series of reports on the progress toward and reevaluation of the 40 percent nutrient reduction goal. Reports describing trends in phosphorus and nitrogen in Chesapeake Bay are...
Publication date: September 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Recommendations for implementing a Chesapeake Information Management System derived from the Data Center Workshop of the Chesapeake Bay Program held on June 19 and 20, 1996.
Publication date: May 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
The major objective of the Coordinated Split Sample Program is to establish a measure of comparability between sampling and analytical operations for water quality monitoring basinwide.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Addendum to the Fall Line Toxics 1992 Final Report
Publication date: June 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This study's goal is to assess the comparability of water quality results from the 10 analytical laboratories that participate in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program. This goal is being achieved by identifying any parameters that have...
Publication date: March 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the water quality data collected by the Conestoga River volunteer monitors with particular emphasis on the concentration of nitrate.
Publication date: July 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
The workshops addressed major categories of toxicological research, including suborganismal toxicity testing, whole organism toxicity, contaminant fate and transport, and ecological risk assessment.
Publication date: April 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This manual catalogs local programs in the watershed that positively impacts, either directly or indirectly, the quality of the Chesapeake Bay, the surrounding watershed and the quality of life for its living resources.
Publication date: June 08, 2001 | Type of document:
This press release announces the presentation of a National Park Service grant to improve the Chemung Basin River Trail
Publication date: July 31, 2001 | Type of document:
this press release announces the publication of a Chesapeake Bay GAteways Network map and guide
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Horseshoe Crab Fishery Management Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab resource in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast to ensure its continued role in the ecology of coastal ecosystems, while providing the opportunity...
Publication date: June 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The Strategy Reevaluation was designed to evaluate toxic conditions of the Bay, assess the effects of current programs, and identify additional actions needed to further reduce toxics impacts in the Bay.
Publication date: August 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This report details the Chesapeake Bay Program's Living Resources Subcommittee accomplishments for 1997. Accomplishments in wetlands, bay grasses, oyster reef restoration, fisheries management, fish passage, habitat restoration, exotic...
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This report provides an interim assessment of toxic substance loadings being delivered to the Chesapeake Bay from the Susquehanna, Potomac and James rivers.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Focusing on objectives outlined in a pilot study created to define the magnitude and timing of toxic substances entering the Chesapeake Bay from the area above the fall line of the Susquehanna and James rivers.
Publication date: January 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A summary of a 1992 workshop, the purpose of which was to provide a forum for investigators' progress reports, the fostering of collaborative research, evaluation of the Toxics Research Program; and dialogue among researchers , managers...
Publication date: August 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Beginning in September 1985, a hypoxia program was conceived by the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Effects Committee as an ecologically oriented study focusing on system-level effects. In 1990, the Chesapeake Bay Office joined the CBEEC...
Publication date: January 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Commission's Ballast Water Work Group. It provides a review of unintentional introductions via ballast water from an ecological, economic, and cultural point of view; it identifies...
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The objective of this project was to develop a practical and conceptually sound framework for assessing benthic environmental conditions in Chesapeake Bay that would address general constraints and limitations; i.e., naturally varying...
Publication date: December 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This project was undertaken to provide the Chesapeake Bay Program with an assessment of chemical analytical capabilities currently available in the Bay region and to provide guidance on how to proceed with toxics analysis in the future.
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Publication date: April 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A compilation of toxic substances detected in, released, or applied to all media (water, soil, sediment, tissue and air) within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
In the District of Columbia, 63% of the District's respondents thought that funding for repair should be spent on reducing water pollution. As in each individual jurisdiction's survey, the District of Columbia's data was analyzed by the...
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
In 1997 and 1998 the CBP signatories opened 294.3 miles of blocked tributary habitat to migratory fish and 67 miles to resident fish (a total of 361.3 miles) within the Bay watershed. Since the program's inception, almost 80 projects have...
Publication date: July 08, 2002 | Type of document: Report
This is a PowerPoint presentation and a Word Document on a presentation by Richard Batiuk, EPA, to the public on July 8, 2002, in the PA Department of Environmental Protection's South Central Regional Office, Harrisburg.
Publication date: August 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
The Who's Who is a contact book which includes the organization of the Chesapeake Bay Program into subcommittees, committees and workgroups. Memberships listed and an index is located in the back of the document which includes street...
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Virginia, where 57% of the survey's respondent were familiar with the Bay, had 56% of its respondents say they believed funding should be spent to reduce water pollution.
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This Work Plan outlines the continuing Federal support for the Anacostia watershed restoration effort, and applying six restoration goals identified in the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee's Six Point Action, examines Federal...
Publication date: January 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
An assessment of the Fall-line (non-tidal) load of trace metals in the Potomac River. The trace metals to determine its contribution of metals to the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: October 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
This study recommends the adoption of forest landscape policy goals and recommends a variety of specific improvements and additions to existing tax, acquisition, forest management, land use and urban forest programs that would improve the...
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Appendices July 1990-December 1991. This is an archived document.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Represents a regional cooperative effort to gather all available information and assimilate best possible understanding of catfish biology, ecology and stock dynamics of native and introduced catfish species in the Chesapeake Bay system.
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Publication date: March 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
Evaluation of ambient toxicity to living resources during late summer/early fall of 1997 in the Elizabeth River (4 stations) and South River (4 stations).
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This Work Plan is a key initiative of Federal agencies and the U.S. Corps of Engineers. It establishes interstate ecosystem management concepts and the establishment of the Anacostia as a National Urban Watershed Restoration Model.
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Publication date: October 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
How-to information for local governments on six land use management techniques that can be used to achieve community goals, preserve local natural resources, and protect the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: September 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Presents characterizations of current status of 26 indicator species and two biological communities in each of 12 basins that comprise the Chesapeake Bay. The list of key species examined included 10 species of finfish, four species of...
Publication date: February 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
Edited verbatim proceedings of the water trails conference held in Shepherdstown, WV, October 9013, 1998. Discussion topics include: a keynote speech by U.S. Senator Paul Sarbanes, Middle Potomac Water Trail, water trail case studies,...
Publication date: May 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This document is a first approach to develop consensus protocols for the use of biological indicators to monitor the effects of toxic contaminants in Chesapeake Bay habitats important to living resources.
Publication date: March 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report
Publication date: October 25, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document summarizes the goals developed by industry stakeholders for consideration in the revised Toxics Strategy (2000) and the Chesapeake Bay Agreement (2000).
Publication date: January 29, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This guidance document will better facilitate efforts to ensure Chesapeake Bay Program funds continue to be directed towards achieving the CBP's restoration and protection goals.
Publication date: August 17, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document summarizes the proceedings of the critical issues forum held on June 22, 1999: Achieving a Toxics Free Bay _ The Role of Point Sources. This forum was the first in a series of critical issues forums held in response to the...
Publication date: April 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This is a compilation of articles based on the Chesapeake Bay Program: Science, Politics and Policy. These article include guest editors: Kent Mountford, Charles D. Rafkind, and John Donahue.
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Atlantic Croaker and spot Management Plan is to protect the croaker and spot resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and coastal waters, while providing the greatest long-term ecological, social and...
Publication date: June 22, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This document summarizes the proceedings of the critical issues forum held on June 22, 1999: Achieving A Toxics Free Bay - The Role of Point Sources. The forum was comprised of a series of presentations, followed by three breakout...
Publication date: July 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
Representatives from the Bay basin jurisdictions presented findings from their respective water column contaminant monitoring programs, with emphasis on concentration ranges observed at Bay tidal water stations.
Publication date: July 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This summary of the Pennsylvania, Maryland, and District of Columbia stakeholder roundtables reflects discussions and recommendations made during the roundtables a well as follow-up written responses annotated on the draft commitments...
Publication date: May 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
Identifies and provides concise documentation on key toxic substances either adversely impacting the Bay system or for which the reasonable potential to do so exists.
Publication date: September 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Commitments are organized under four areas -- pollution prevention, regulatory program implementation, regional focus, and directed toxics assessment.
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
An introduction to the issues and ecosystems of the Great Waters Program.
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
The purpose of this document is to present a geographical targeting approach for focusing chemical contam8inant remediation, reduction, prevention, protection, and assessment actions within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
A geographical targeting approach for focusing chemical contaminant remediation, reduction, prevention, protection, and assessment actions within the Chesapeake Bay basin.
Publication date: December 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This policy document considers only first time introductions of non-indigenous, non-naturalized aquatic species. Organisms, including marsh-dwellers, that live on land or in the soil are not included in the scope of this policy.
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This Work Plan outlines the continuing Federal support for the Anacostia watershed restoration effort, and applying six restoration goals identified in the Anacostia Watershed Restoration Committee's Six Point Action, examines Federal...
Publication date: February 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
An overview of the Anacostia Ecosystem Initiative, EPA, Region III, and its goals for the Anacostia River and its surrounding communities.
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This report is a summary of Phase I and II of a study designed to provide necessary data and recommendations for development of estuarine acute and chronic atrazine criterion for the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
A report on the Community Watershed Initiative Strategy: Recognizing Shared Vision, Realizing Shared Goals
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This is a report.
Publication date: March 01, 1984 | Type of document: Report
Monitoring of pesticides in Maryland surface waters.
Publication date: August 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
A report on pesticide use in the Chesapeake Bay Basin
Publication date: November 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A yearly report on ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay.
Publication date: October 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
This is a draft report on Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy Appendices.
Publication date: September 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
A report on the Distribution of Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in the Chesapeake Bay - 1986
Publication date: January 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
This is an annual report on the Coordinated Split Sample Program.
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This is the 1995-1996 Biennial Report on the Chesapeake Bay Living Resources.
Publication date: December 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report
A report from the Chesapeake Executive Council on the adoption of the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy
Publication date: October 01, 1984 | Type of document: Report
The objective of this study was to determine the influence of a range of salinities (5, 15 and 25 ppt) on the acute toxicity of total dissolved and free cadmium to sheepshead minnow, Cyprinodon variegatus larvae and the copepod,...
Publication date: September 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report
This is a report.
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests. Toxicity of ambient estuarine water and sediment was evaluated during the fall of 1994 at six stations in...
Publication date: July 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Land use activities in the Chesapeake Bay watershed are diverse and contribute significantly to water quality. Because of the long history of coal mining in the upper reaches of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, much concern has been...
Publication date: July 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column and sediment toxicity tests.
Publication date: April 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This pilot study was designed to evaluate ambient toxicity in the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using a battery of water column, sediment and suborganismal tests.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Addendum to the Fall Line Toxics 1992 Final Report
Publication date: February 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Primary objective was to generate data that can be used with other toxicity data by the Maryland Department of the Environment to develop a chronic copper criterion for protection of aquatic life in estuarine waters of the Chesapeake Bay...
Publication date: July 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
Bridging the gap between innovative, sustainable principles and implementation requires the synergistic efforts of local elected officials, the business and financial community, developers, and the public at large. Each of these...
Publication date: August 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Implementation Plan for Removing Impediments to Migratory Fishes in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Annual Progress Report 1994
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report
This is not a report on the State of the Bay. It is a collection of images that attempts to capture the vast bulk of studies, the depth of the research, and the actions and commitment of the people involved in the restoration of the...
Publication date: April 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship.
Publication date: December 01, 1990 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Weakfish and Spotted Seatrout Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate weakfish and spotted seatrout stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report
This report outlines the major accomplishments of the Waterfowl Workgroup in 1991.
Publication date: August 01, 1986 | Type of document: Report
The Plan calls for the continuation of all of the State's existing programs, because collectively they are producing results. IN the case of some regulatory programs, the plan commits MDE to specific administrative actions involving...
Publication date: February 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Analyzes the shaping factors of the Southern Maryland Heritage area, which includes Calvert, Charles and St. Mary's Counties, and recommends policies and actions needed to preserve, restore and promote an improved quality of life.
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Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Progress made in implementing the Agreement on an item-by-item basis according to the 20 specific commitments to which the signatories have subscribed.
Publication date: July 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
A report on the Restoration of the Anacostia River.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Goals of Chesapeake Bay's Toxics of Concern Workgroup study were to conduct partial life cycle toxicity studies with atrazine for the Sago pondweed (Potamogeton pectinatus), commonly found in Chesapeake Bay. Data will be used for the...
Publication date: May 09, 2007 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This document sharpens the focus of the EPA and the USDA to carry out activities to help Chesapeake Bay Program partners meet their nutrient reduction goals. EPA and USDA commit to using their complementary authorities and programs to...
Publication date: December 04, 2003 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The adoption statement acknowledges that the most essential action in meeting the 2010 goal of 185,000 acres of SAV is meeting water clarity criteria in areas designed for SAV use. The document describes the important roles SAV plays in...
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Directive
The restoration of water quality and living resources is the principal goal of the Chesapeake Bay Program. Through the cooperative efforts of the Bay Program partners, we have endeavored to strengthen and coordinate our actions to protect...
Publication date: November 28, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In it's Directive 04-2 Meeting the Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps. the Chesapeake Executive Council in January 2005 directed several actions designed to support and accelerate implementation of the partner...
Publication date: October 03, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In January 2005, the Chesapeake Executive Council issued Directive 04-2 Meeting the Nutrient Sediment Reduction Goals - Next Steps. The Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to create a network of assistance programs to establish a...
Publication date: January 01, 2005 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
In order to restore water quality in the Chesapeake Bay, states have developed Tributary Strategies to reduce pollution from nutrients (Nitrogen&Phosphorus) and sediment. The strategies contain a wide array of practices and initial cost...
Publication date: January 01, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This MOU provides for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating exchange of...
Publication date: October 18, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
In April 1990, the Department of Defense (DOD) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) signed a Cooperative Agreement concerning Chesapeake Bay activities. This reconfirmed a policy of coordination and cooperation between DOD and...
Publication date: September 23, 2004 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
Representatives from the District, state, interstate and Federal entities with responsibility for the quality of the waters flowing through the creeks, streams and rivers of the Chesapeake Bay agree to cooperative efforts for monitoring...
Publication date: December 22, 2004 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This memorandum of understanding between the Environmental Science Center and CBP shall provide an emergency relocation site for CBP.
Publication date: October 31, 2002 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
MOU among the State of Delware, the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, the State of New York, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, the Commonwealth of Virginia, the State of West Virginia, and the United States Environmental...
Publication date: April 20, 1990 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Cooperative Agreement establishes a policy of coordination and cooperative between DoD and EPA on Chesapeake Bay activities, consistent with the goals, objectives, and commitments of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: January 11, 1989 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOU provides for coordination and cooperation between the U.S. Department of the Army and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Chesapeake Bay activities.
Publication date: July 28, 2005 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Memorandum of Understanding provides for enhanced cooperation between the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service's and the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program.
Publication date: October 29, 1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of information between agencies and to heighten the awareness and cooperation of the individual activities of the federal and state agencies responsible for the...
Publication date: October 23, 1992 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOU is the first step towards achieving environmental improvements in inner-city wards through community-based organizations, the parties of this agreement commit to coordinating personnel, programs and resources, to empower...
Publication date: October 18, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
An agreement to accept the Plan as a guide to conserving and protecting the black sea bass resource for long-term ecological, economic and social benefits.
Publication date: May 24, 1993 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The United State Coast Guard (USCG) and the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are charged with enforcing and administering a number of laws to protect the environment. Specific agency responsibilities are defined by...
Publication date: January 19, 1990 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOA sets forth the basic principles and guidelines under which the parties intend to cooperate in environmental program areas including research, development, and demonstration projects; the exchange of ideas, information, and data;...
Publication date: November 21, 1984 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
USGS agrees to join with the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a contributing member of the institutional framework established by the Chesapeake Bay Executive Council
Publication date: July 05, 1995 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) is to sanction the wetlands partnership among the Fish and Wildlife Service's (FWS) Chesapeake Bay Field Office (CBFO_ and National Biological Service's (NBS) Patuxent Environmental...
Publication date: November 21, 1984 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This memorandum of understanding establishes the participation of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) in the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). It reflects a mutual desire that the capabilities of NOAA in the area of...
Publication date: November 21, 1984 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This memorandum of understanding establishes the participation of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (COE) in the management of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). It reflects the mutual desire that the capabilities of the COE in their areas...
Publication date: March 14, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
The purpose of this agreement is to amplify the January 1988 Memorandum of Understanding between the USDA-Forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, as it pertains to providing technical services to State Foresters and other...
Publication date: May 18, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Memorandum of Understanding establishes policies, administrative procedures, and provides for a cooperative working administrative procedures, and provides for a cooperative working relationship between the U.S. Department of...
Publication date: April 07, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Memorandum of Understanding provides for enhanced cooperation between the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Chesapeake Bay Program. This agreement is established for the purpose of...
Publication date: January 11, 1989 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Memorandum of Understanding provides for coordination and cooperation between the U.S. Department of the Army and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Chesapeake Bay Activities. This MOU supersedes the 21 November 1984 MOU...
Publication date: April 20, 1990 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This Cooperative Agreement establishes a policy of Coordination and Cooperation between DoD and EPA on Chesapeake Bay activities, consistent with the goals, objectives, and commitments of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: October 15, 1991 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
This agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating the exchange of information between agencies and to heighten the awareness and cooperation of the individual activities of the federal and state agencies responsible for the...
Publication date: April 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Overview including The Agreement, Federal agency involvement, and the progress made in implementing the Agreement, an item-by item basis according to the 20 specific commitments subscribed by the signatories.
Publication date: August 25, 1999 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
The President's 1997 initiative to support communities in their efforts to restore and protect America's rivers brought together 22 agencies and departments that became Federal Agency partners of the Chesapeake Bay Program.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Peoples of the Bay/Social and Cultural Environment, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: January 25, 1994 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
Outlines actions to be implemented by the Chesapeake Bay Program with the partnership of the Department of Agriculture, state and local governments, the environmental and agricultural communities, the private sector and other Federal...
Publication date: November 15, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This MOU serves to enhance the coordination between the United States Postal Districts located in the states of Maryland, Virginia and Pennsylvania, the District of Columbia, and the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
Publication date: May 07, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
As a result of continued need for environmental protection and restoration, in 1987 the District of Columbia, the State of Maryland, Montgomery County and Prince George's County signed an agreement to restore the Anacostia Watershed. ...
Publication date: September 05, 1996 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Agreement was created to support the State of Maryland's efforts to identify a long-term economically and environmentally sound dredged material placement plan, in accordance with Federal and State laws.
Publication date: March 25, 1996 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
The goal of the Special Strategy is to reduce the amount of nutrients, principally nitrogen and phosphorus, entering the tributaries of Chesapeake Bay. The Chesapeake Bay Program jurisdictions of Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvania, and the...
Publication date: December 15, 1987 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of goals and Priority Commitments for Living Resources; Water Quality; Population Growth and Development; Public Information; Education and Participation; Public Access; and Governance.
Publication date: August 12, 1992 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of amendments to 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the conditions planned to achieve a net gain in submerged aquatic vegetation distribution abundance and species diversity in the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries over present populations.
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the conditions that will reduce nutrients entering the Bay at a level 40% less than they were in 1985, even in the face of increased population and development.
Publication date: October 14, 1994 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
Overview of the reevaluation of the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy adopted by the Chesapeake Executive Council in January 1989, its 1992 reevaluation. The Strategy used the requirements of the 1987 Clean Water Act as...
Publication date: October 14, 1994 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
This Directive addresses historical habitats in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, the need to accelerate efforts to restore habitat across the basin to benefit living resources and directs the Bay Program to implement an integrated and...
Publication date: November 30, 1995 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
To add to the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction and Prevention Strategy, the following additional goal: Develop and conduct basin wide education and outreach programs for commercial and household pesticide applicators to promote,...
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of local governments' role in the Chesapeake Bay Program within the range of program activities that depend on local action and support.
Publication date: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the Strategy's purpose and methods for fulfilling goals and objectives of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Programs' objectives were to monitor the bacteriological quality of Maryland's shellfish harvesting waters to assure adequate public health protection from shellfish unsafe for human consumption and to assist in the identification and...
Publication date: July 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
An important criterion applied in this plan is the focus on long-term, baseline monitoring which will provide data for the characterization of living resource populations and for tracking trends in their abundance over time.
Publication date: March 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
This study was designed to determine the influence of a range of salinities on the acute toxicity of atrazine to the copepod, and the sheepshead minnow larvae. An additional objective of the study was to provide acute atrazine toxicity...
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Eel Management Plan is to manage the American eel harvest in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries so that harvest does not exceed the reproductive capacity of the population to maintain its size from year...
Publication date: June 04, 1997 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
This minor amendment to the 1991 Chesapeake Bay Summer Flounder Fishery Management Plan updates the status of the summer flounder stock and allows for improved monitoring of management objectives set forth in the 1991 Plan.
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the Chesapeake Bay Program's reconfirmation to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus loading to the Bay from controllable sources by 40 percent by 2000, using 1985 as a base year. This directive also outlines systems and measures...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council's members agree to work together to implement the management actions recommended to address the potential for overfishing, stock assessment and research needs, and habitat degradation.
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council's Adoption State believes that the efforts of the Chesapeake Bay Program should not duplicate existing efforts that successfully address Program goals and objectives, that the Program and its partners...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
The Interstate Animal Waste Distribution and Use Technology Directive supports the nutrient reductions goals of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement and the opportunity that it provides for all states within the Chesapeake Bay watershed...
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
New and enhanced environmental technologies are critical to reducing pollution releases, lowering compliance costs and improving production efficiency. The Chesapeake Bay Program has encouraged the development and implementation of...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This Agreement is established for the purpose of facilitating cooperation between the NASA and EPA in order to heighten the awareness of each agency's activities with the objective of improving the environmental condition of the...
Publication date: December 27, 1993 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In January 1989, The Chesapeake Executive Council adopted the Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy in fulfillment of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement and committed to reevaluate the Strategy of the 1987 Clean Water Act as a foundation...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
Guidelines for developing and revising fishery management plans addresses the policy of the Chesapeake Bay Program to advocate the protection of Bay habitat, maintenance of ecological relationships and elimination of over harvesting of...
Publication date: November 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report
Publication date: February 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the financial cost effectiveness of point and nonpoint source nutrient reduction technologies in the Chesapeake Bay Basin
Publication date: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on targeting toxics, a technical work plan
Publication date: June 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report and recommendation for the nonpoint source evaluation panel
Publication date: August 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A computerized data base of Chesapeake Bay point source discharges has been developed to document information on point source pollutant input to the Bay. Installed on the Chesapekae Bay Program computer and available to registered users,...
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on nutrient dissolved oxygen dynamics in the Chesapeake Bay
Publication date: August 01, 1987 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on non-point source pollution loading factors and related parameters from the literature.
Publication date: August 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. This is a report on Guidance for Protecting Submerged Aquatic Vegetation in Chesapeake Bay from Physical Disruption
Publication date: October 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A Synthesis of Tributary Strategies for the Bay's Ten Watersheds: Bay Program plan for cooperative, integrated and consistent scientific approach to nitrogen and phosphorous reduction in Bay that provides the States of Maryland,...
Publication date: January 01, 1989 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
Monitoring plays a key role in guiding the Bay's restoration, making it imperative that the information collected through the monitoring programs be promptly and appropriately interpreted and used. In this report case studies depict...
Publication date: April 01, 1987 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
The second report from the Chesapeake Bay Program monitoring Subcommittee summarizes data collected from June 1984 through September 1985 at over 165 stations Bay-wide for the new coordinated monitoring program. This initial effort...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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Publication date: September 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay is the nation's largest estuary and the first to be targeted for restoration as a single ecosystem. The Chesapeake Bay Program-the cooperative compact forged to spearhead the cleanup-has become a model for other...
Publication date: September 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report contains reports from several subcommittes, including: Techncial Assistance, Outreach and Education Subcommittee; Intergovernmental Coordination and Partnership subcommittee and the Research Subcommittee on agricultural...
Publication date: September 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. Attention focused on water quality problems in the Chesapeake Bay has revealed that agricultural activities are in large part responsible for the degradation of water quality and...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Throughout this retrospective, the work to restore the living resources of the Chesapeake Bay is highlighted. Progress in this arena is a kind of generic target by which our experience improving the health of the Bay can, to some,...
Publication date: October 01, 1983 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
September 1983. Published in 1983, at the culmination of the seven-year research phase of the program, describing the state of the Bay, sources of pollution, control alternatives for reducing pollution and a recommended range of actions...
Publication date: March 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
replaced by A Comprehensive List of Chesapeake Bay Species - 1998
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
Designed to be a resource for a diverse technical and managerial audience
Publication date: July 16, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report presents the results of the combined Phase I/Phase II effort. Model calibration results are presented for hydrology, non-point loadings, and in-stream water quality for numerous sites throughout the Bay drainage. In...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report examines variations in dissolved oxygen from 1950 onward to determine past trends and evaluate progress in restoring the health of the Bay
Publication date: January 24, 1995 | Type of document: Environmental Assessment | Download: Electronic Version
Comprehensive study of the state of the Chesapeake Bay - 1995.
Publication date: November 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report is an introduction to market based strategies for Chesapeake Bay Policy and management
Publication date: April 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In 1983, the Chesapeake Bay Program identified excess nutrients as the primary reason for water quality decline in the Chesapeake. To quantify the nutrients contributing to eutrophication and the nutr9ent reductions necessary to restore...
Publication date: November 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Addresses policy tools that can be used to better achieve the dual objectives of improved environmental quality and more flexible, cost-effective environmental policies
Publication date: October 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Includes formal Adoption Statement signed by its six partners, and an overview of an action plan in which local governments play a substantive role in protection and restoration efforts for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Publication date: January 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
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Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Federal Workplan describes each participating agency's Bay initiatives, the current level of coordination, outlines a process for expanding that cooperation, and points to future directions for agency efforts in support of the...
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Federal Facilities Strategy recognizes that all of the federal departments and agencies with real estate in the Bay drainage area have the potential to affect the water quality and living resources of the Bay.
Publication date: December 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The first progress report under the 1988 Baywide Nutrient Reduction Strategy describes implementation progress and analytic refinements promised in the original strategy
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 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In January 1989, the Chesapeake Executive Council adopted the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy in fulfillment of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement commitment and pledged to reevaluate the Strategy in 1992. The...
Publication date: December 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Documents current levels of monitoring carried out by Bay jurisdictions for the purpose of tracking forestry Best Management Practices implementation and effectiveness
Publication date: September 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of the distribution and abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and four Delmarva island barrier bays in 1996. Black-and-white photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source...
Publication date: November 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of distribution and abundance of SAV in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay in 1995. Chincoteague Bay, for the purpose of this report, includes four barrier island bays
Publication date: December 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report
Assessment of distribution and abundance of SAV in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and Chincoteague Bay in 1994. Black and white aerial photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source of information used in the study...
Publication date: January 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Shares research results relating to distribution of land use in the Chesapeake Basin, nitrogen and phosphorus loading load by land use, cost analysis summary by management practice for agreement states, and overviews of individual program...
Publication date: January 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of the historical background, environmental significance, and current status of forested areas in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.
Publication date: August 01, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Provides a list of aquatic and aquatic-associated organisms found in recent decades in the Chesapeake Bay Basin.
Publication date: December 01, 1990 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. The Plan will guide the protection and restoration of native waterfowl species using the Chesapeake Bay, its tidal tributaries, and adjacent uplands. The Plan emphasizes the protection and...
Publication date: October 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Several major revisions were made to the 1994 Fall Line Toxics Program. Organic compounds were analyzed for both the dissolved and particulate phases and included forty constituents for the 1994 study.
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Soil reactions and potential loss pathways of the essential plant nutrients that provide a framework for effective nutrient management planning.
Publication date: October 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document is available electronically only. This document addresses the Chesapeake Bay priority habitat areas, and habitation restoration implementations.
Publication date: February 01, 1993 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
A Synthesis of Living Resource Habitat Requirements with Guidelines for Their Use in Evaluating Model Results and Monitoring Information
Publication date: March 01, 1996 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report describes the current programs to ameliorate nonpoint sources of pollution to the Bay that have been developed by the four jurisdictions in cooperation with other agencies; the achievements to date in terms of pollutant...
Publication date: January 01, 1996 | Type of document: Management Plan | Download: Electronic Version
Stock assessment results indicate that black sea bass are overharvested. The goal of the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic Coast Black Sea Fishery Management Plan (FMP) is to
Publication date: December 01, 1989 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report documents the pollutant removal efficiency of commonly used and innovative urban stormwater practices. One hundred and twenty-three studies, spanning a 19-year period, are summarized in this report.
Publication date: February 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Information on the financial cost effectiveness and nutrient removal effectiveness of point and nonpoint source technologies in the Chesapeake Bay Basin. Expresses costs on an equivalent annual basis, so that relative comparisons can be...
Publication date: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement set a goal to reduce nitrogen and phosphorous nutrients entrance into the Bay by 40% by year 2000. In 1992's Amendments to the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, partners agreed to maintain the 40% goal beyond the...
Publication date: February 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Evaluation of ambient toxicity of living resource habitats in Chesapeake Bay during the fall of 1995 at Pamunkey River (two stations), York River (two stations), James River (two stations), Willoughby Bay (one station) and Lynnhaven River...
Publication date: June 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report
A model package including a watershed model, an atmospheric loading model, a hydrodynamic model, and a eutrophication model are used to evaluate the benefit of nutrient and solids load controls on the Virginia tributaries to the...
Publication date: May 01, 1990 | Type of document: Report
This workshop resulted in general agreement on recommendations for a list of suitable methodologies and species that are appropriate from bioassessment.
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
Goal was to conduct a probabilistic ecological risk assessment for tributyltin (TBT) in estuarine areas of the Chesapeake Bay watershed by using problem formulation, analysis and risk characterization.
Publication date: May 01, 1999 | Type of document: Report
This study conducts a screening level probabilistic ecological risk assessment for zinc using the distinct phases of problem formulation, analysis, and risk characterization. The Middle River had the highest potential ecological risk from...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
A report on the 1997 Chesapeake Bay Program Regional Land Forums
Publication date: April 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This paper addresses the need for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay, the process to develop baywide guidelines, and activities taken elsewhere in the Bay region.
Publication date: April 09, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Following the release of the Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines - Draft, sixteen public meetings were collectively held throughout the watershed in each of the signatory jurisdictions. All jurisdictions received...
Publication date: April 09, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program completed a document delineating nutrient trading guidelines entitled Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines - Draft and made this document available to the public for review on September 8,...
Publication date: March 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This document presents fundamental principles and guidelines for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This document is not a regulation. Rather, it is intended to be used on a voluntary basis as a guide for those Bay...
Publication date: September 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Virginia regional and local stakeholders and partners involved in the nutrient reduction goal setting and tributary strategy development process were provided with in-depth information of direct relevance from the best data available to...
Publication date: July 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The coupled water quality-sediment diagensis model for the Chesapeake Bay has been enhanced with the addition of the dynamically-computed benthic biomass. The benthos was divided into two functional components, deposit-feeding polychaetes...
Publication date: December 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
This is the fourth biennial progress report of the progress made by Federal agencies on the commitments made in the Agreement of Federal Agencies on Ecosystem Management in the Chesapeake Bay, signed on July 14, 1994 and the second...
Publication date: November 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report provides general information on environmentally-friendly landscaping throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The text covers everything you need to know from soil erosion to environmentally-friendly fertilizers.
Publication date: February 12, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Arlington County local government officials are encouraging developers to make projects more environmentally friendly, by practicing what they preach through the installation of a 3,285 square foot green roof that is viewable from the...
Publication date: July 12, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Dissolved oxygen is vital to the health of the living resources in Chesapeake Bay. This background fact sheet explains the sources of dissolved oxygen, the role dissolved oxygen plays in the Bay ecosystem, and explains low dissolved...
Publication date: April 30, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
To accelerate the protection and restoration of the Bay watershed, Chesapeake Bay Program partners are developing 36 river-specific cleanup strategies that cover all 64,000 square miles in the basin. These Tributary Strategies aim to...
Publication date: March 11, 2004 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Executive Council selected fifteen members to a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel charged with developing innovative solutions to financing the multi-billion dollar Bay restoration effort. The 15-member...
Publication date: December 10, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
On December 9, 2003, the Chesapeake Executive Council called for the establishment of a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel to seek new and innovative ways to finance and secure the Bay's future. The Blue Ribbon Panel has...
Publication date: October 01, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Watershed management planning establishes partnerships between local and state governments, community organizations and any other groups with the common goal of protecting your watershed. Additionally, watershed management planning is a...
Publication date: October 01, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Watershed management planning provides opportunities to address water quality and habitat issues within the physical boundaries of a watershed rather than political boundaries. It is an inclusive approach to support environmental...
Publication date: March 26, 2002 | Type of document:
This press release announces 2001 bald eagle data for the Chesapeake Bay watershed
Publication date: April 15, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This Backgrounder highlights milestones in Bay water quality restoration between April 2003 and 2010.
Publication date: April 15, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This Backgrounder answers commonly asked questions about the new living resource-based approach to restoring Bay water quality.
Publication date: April 15, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Short synopsis of the Chesapeake Bay Commission's Cost of a Clean Bay Report completed in January 2003.
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides in depth information on tree projects funded through the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program.
Publication date: November 13, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This press release announces the launch of the local government resource, Bay LogIn
Publication date: January 01, 2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet provides a summary of the role the Chesapeake Bay region played in the beginnings of slavery in America, as a conduit for the Underground Railroad and in the Civil War
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This is a fact sheet on contaminants and other Bay-related issues
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
QAT is the Quality Assurance tool developed to improve the automated data integrity checks used by the Chesapeake Bay Program Office (CBPO) and to reduce the processing needed to put water quality data into the CBPO water quality...
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Data hub is a Chesapeake Bay Program web page where environmental monitoring and geographic data related to Chesapeake Bay is located. A dynamic, form-driven interface allows the user to access the information.
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Chesapeake Bay and tidal Tributary River Interpolator is a standalone application that interpolates water quality sample concentrations on the surface or throughout the 3D volume of the Bay and tidal tributaries.
Publication date: April 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The Chesapeake Information Management System (CIMS) is an organized, distributed library of information and software tools designed to increase basin-wide public access to Chesapeake Bay information
Publication date: May 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
A newsletter acknowledging the importance of nutrient trading in meeting reduction goals, the process the nutrient trading negotiation team underwent to reach consensus, and a listing of the recommended fundamental principles and...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
This fact sheet provides a summary of the life history, stock status, problem areas, and proposed management strategies described in the Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Management Plan. For greater detail, consult the complete management plan....
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This policy's intent is to guide the protection and restoration of all submerged aquatic vegetation within the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries
Publication date: October 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Stream corridor protection options for local decision makers
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Overview of trends in the Bay's forests, land use in Bay watershed
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Describes strategy devised by the Ecologically Valuable Species Workgroup, a group organized under the Living Resources Subcommittee of the Chesapeake Bay Program, that views the Bay as an holistic ecosystem
Publication date: January 01, 1993 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate red drum stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate optimum long-term ecological,...
Publication date: August 01, 1997 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Outreach document outlining priorities for actions for land, growth and stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay region
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Management Plan
Summarizes the Kingfish (Scomberomorous cavalla) and Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorous maculatus) Fishery Management Plan and provides a synopsis of the problems facing the species.
Publication date: December 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
Flounder fish generates a higher dollar value in the Chesapeake Bay watershed each year than any other finfish. This fact sheet provides a summary of problem areas and proposed management strategies described in the Chesapeake Bay Summer...
Publication date: August 01, 1989 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This Policy's intent is to guide the protection and restoration of all submerged aquatic vegetation within the Chesapeake Bay and its tidal tributaries
Publication date: January 01, 1996 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Based on a three-phase program resulting in an integrated and comprehensive approach for targeting habitat restoration projects in the Bay watershed
Publication date: November 11, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Answers the question: how do forests provide answers for the restoration of the bay.
Publication date: November 11, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
How riparian forests contribute to the protection, restoration, and stewardship of the Bay Watershed
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
The goal of the King and Spanish Mackerel Fishery Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate King and Spanish mackerel stocks in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout their Atlantic coast range, so as to generate...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Purpose of Plan is to protect the horseshoe crab's ecological role in the Chesapeake Bay and Atlantic coast through improved knowledge of stocks and the integration of specific habitat actions thus providing for its commercial,...
Publication date: November 11, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Overview of forest conservation issues: Growth management; distribution and fragmentation, integration in land use planning, regional perspective, riparian forests, and economic viability
Publication date: October 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
This document addresses the Plan's goals to protect and monitor the bluefish resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and state coastal waters, and to provide for optimum long-term ecological, economic, and social benefits...
Publication date: December 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
Under the Chesapeake Bay Agreement, signed by Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, DC, the U.S. EPA and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, Atlantic croaker and spot fish were selected as important species and a fishery management plan (FMP) was...
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
Designed to improve the ecology of Chesapeake Bay; the ecological value of the oyster resource; to restore, augment, and set aside hard substrate on the Bay bottom to enhance reef community development and improve aquatic habitat; and...
Publication date: January 01, 1991 | Type of document: Management Plan
Fact Sheet: In 1987, signatories from Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, the District of Columbia, the U.S. EPA, and the Chesapeake Bay Commission pledged to initiate management plans for commercially, recreationally, and ecologically...
Publication date: December 06, 2006 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
Accurately conveying the health of the Chesapeake Bay and it watershed to policy makers, political leaders and watershed residents is critical to the maintaining the long-term momentum of the Chesapeake Bay restoration effort.
This...
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet defines commonly used water quality terms
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This backgrounder explains what environmental models are and how they are used at the Chesapeake Bay Program
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet overviews the new water quality standards and criteria that form the basis of the Bay cleanup.
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet reviews the regulations guiding Bay restoration and provides an overview of the transition to the new water quality criteria.
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet lists the year 2000 recipients of the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program
Publication date: August 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet provides an overview of the Chesapeake Bay Small Watershed Grants Program
Publication date: March 01, 2001 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This fact sheet overviews the restoration and protection of bald eagles and provides information on current status and tends of blad eagles in the Bay watershed
Publication date: January 26, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides background information on waterfowl in the Chesapeake Bay
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the chlorophylla and water clarity criteria underdevelopment in 2001
Publication date: April 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the dissolved oxygen criteria developed in 2001
Publication date: December 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This backgrounder provides an overview of the commitments in the Toxics 2000 Strategy
Publication date: December 01, 2000 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
This document summarizes the Toxics 2000 Strategy
Publication date: October 31, 2002 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
Replaces the 1996 Local Government Participation Action Plan
Publication date: March 26, 2001 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
Principle's Staff Committee endorsement page
Publication date: January 01, 2005 | Type of document: Brochure | Download: Electronic Version
This newsletter summarizes four important water quality events that affected the Chesapeake Bay during 2004.
Publication date: July 01, 1988 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the bay-wide nutrient reduction strategy
Publication date: December 08, 1998 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Chesapeake 2000 takes stock of the progress made to date in restoring the Chesapeake Bay and renews the Chesapeake Bay Program's commitment to the ultimate goal of restoring the productivity, diversity and abundance of the living...
Publication date: February 01, 2005 | Type of document: Brochure
This brochure describes the application of the linked Airshed Model, Watershed Model, and Estuarine Water Quality Model in Chesapeake Bay water quality management
Publication date: August 01, 2004 | Type of document: Brochure
Brochure outlines the importance of forests, history of forest loss and program activities in partnerships, information/outreach, continuous forests, riparian forests, and urban forests
Publication date: July 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Three models are at the heart of the Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package (CBEMP). Distributed flows and loads from the watershed are computed with a highly modified version of the HSPF model. Nutrient and solids loads are...
Publication date: October 18, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
The MOU establishes policies, administrative procedures and provides for a cooperative working relationship between the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Soil Conservation Service and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in support of...
Publication date: October 01, 2003 | Type of document: Brochure
This brochure identifies the link between land use planning and water quality. A Dialogue meeting brings together stakeholders to begin watershed management planning
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: June 26, 2000 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal
Publication date: February 01, 2000 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: November 18, 1999 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems. This 6 panel brochure explains Pfiesteria piscida and how to detect its symptoms in fish or shellfish, and what to do if...
Publication date: May 01, 1998 | Type of document: Brochure
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
Publication date: July 01, 2001 | Type of document: Brochure
The Gateways Network Map & Guide introduces visitors to the Chesapeake Bay and to Gateway sites and water trails. The Gateways Network is a system of parks, refuges, maritime museums, historic sites and watertrails where people can...
Publication date: May 01, 2001 | Type of document: Brochure
General information about Businesses for the Bay, a voluntary program for businesses, government facilities, and other organizations in the p9llution prevention activities. Brochure includes a sign-up form.
Publication date: October 07, 2005 | Type of document: Agreement
The Chesapeake Bay is a national treasure and historically the most productive estuary in the world. This document verifies that the signing Federal Agencies re-dedicate themselves to cooperative conservation in support of the...
Publication date: October 07, 2005 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
A resolution to enhance Federal Cooperative Conservation in the Chesapeake Bay Program. In August 2004, the President issued an Executive Order to federal agencies that oversee environmental and natural resource policies and programs...
Publication date: January 01, 1988 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
This agreement is amplify the January 1988 Memorandum of Understanding between the USDA-forest Service and the Environmental Protection Agency, as it pertains to providing technical services to State Foresters and other cooperators for...
Publication date: October 01, 2000 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
MOU regarding cooperative efforts for the protection of the Chesapeake Bay and it's rivers
Publication date: October 29, 1991 | Type of document: MOU/MOA
Publication date: November 05, 1998 | Type of document: Agreement | Download: Electronic Version
Building upon the Clean Water Action Plan, 15 agencies dedicated to enhancing stewardship on Federally-managed public lands are signatories to this Plan, which outlines new opportunities to support the needs of priority watersheds,...
Publication date: January 01, 1998 | Type of document: Management Plan
A report on the Tautog Fishery Management Plan
Publication date: December 01, 1994 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this Plan is to guide the development and implementation of a regional program to rebuild and restore reefs as habitat for oysters and other ecologically valuable aquatic species.
Publication date: January 01, 1994 | Type of document: Management Plan
This fact sheet provides a summary of the life history, stock status, problem areas, and proposed management strategies described in the Chesapeake Bay Red Drum Management Plan. For greater detail, consult the complete management plan.
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This press release announces the addition of 2 sites in Maryland to the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Publication date: May 01, 1991 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The major objective of the Coordinated Split Sample Program is to establish a measure of comparability between sampling and analytical operations for water quality monitoring basin wide. The second objective is to evaluate the in-matrix...
Publication date: August 01, 2003 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The TSD was developed by the EPA and its watershed partners to be a companion document to the Regional Criteria Guidance. Because it describes the development and geographical extent of the designated uses to which the refined water...
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Benthic Process Model Review Team, assembled by the Modeling Subcommittee during Fall 2000, reviewed the benthic model developed for the Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Model, a component of Chesapeake Bay Estuary Modeling Package....
Publication date: May 04, 2010 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
There is broad support for an independent evaluator that conducts ongoing and periodic evaluations of the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP). This backgrounder describes what the independent evaluator is, frequently asked questions about...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In December 2003, the Executive Council directed the Chesapeake Bay Program to establish and convene a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue ribbon panel to consider funding sources to implement the tributary strategies basin-wide and to make...
Publication date: March 02, 2001 | Type of document:
This press release announces the addition of 9 sites in Virginia to the Chesapeake Bay Gateways Network
Publication date: November 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
In this report, observations of dissolved oxygen concentrations, chlorophyll concentrations, and light attenuation are compared to model estimates taken at the same time and location in model space. The comparison includes scatter...
Publication date: May 01, 1994 | Type of document: Report
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Black Drum Management Plan is to protect the black drum resource in the Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and coastal waters, while providing the greatest long-term ecological, social and economic benefits...
Publication date: February 01, 2002 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
State and federal agencies have been engaged in restoration and creation of wetlands for many years, generally as part of programs focused on habitat and water quality management. In the late 1990s recognition of the growing cumulative...
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: May 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Appendix B documents the water quality calibration of the Phase IV Watershed Model. Simulated and observed concentrations are compared for 8 years of calibration (1984-1991) at 15 water quality stations. Calibration data is shown for...
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: 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: 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: May 31, 2002 | Type of document: Report
The panel recommends disapproval of proposal as presented.
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Agriculture is a significant source of nutrients entering the Chesapeake Bay, with animal manure and poultry litter contributing about half of the agricultural nutrient load. As animal operations become more concentrated and the acreage...
Publication date: February 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship
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: 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: March 01, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Report curtailing proceedings and agreement statements on oyster restoration derived from 2 day workshop held in Waldorf, MD on January 13 & 14, 2000. Contains important consensus statements derived from meeting, on oyster sanctuaries...
Publication date: January 10, 2005 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
This Directive addresses next steps, each of which will advance Tributary Strategy implementation, and identifies measures to implement several Panel recommendations upon which action can be taken quickly.
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: 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: April 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Environmental Model Package (CBEMP) was used to assess the environmental benefits of a ten-fold increase in native oysters in Chesapeake Bay. The CBEMP consists of a coupled system of models including a...
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: September 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This first-of-its-kind report synthesizes more than a decade's worth of data from public and private sources, highlights current forest conditions, forecasts future trends, and outlines key goals and strategies necessary to conserve and...
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: 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 27, 1988 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This document sharpens the focus of the EPA and the USDA to carry out activities to help Chesapeake Bay Program partners meet their nutrient reduction goals. EPA and USDA commit to using their complementary authorities and programs to...
Publication date: August 01, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on the Chesapeake bay Watershed Model
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: October 10, 1996 | Type of document: Adoption Statement | Download: Electronic Version
The Report is meant to serve as a way to address land, growth and stewardship in the Chesapeake Bay Region. It can facilitate future and ongoing public or private actions to be taken by the Chesapeake Bay Program and other stakeholders...
Publication date: August 01, 1984 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This is a report on trends in phosphorus, nitrogen, secchi depths and dissolved oxygen in Chesapeake Bay for the years 1984-1992
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: 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: March 02, 2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet
This fact sheet provides an overview of the history of balc eagle restoration in the Bay watershed an update on the current status of bald eagles
Publication date: April 23, 2002 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
The purpose of this document is to communicate the findings and recommendations of the Federal Agencies Committee of the Chesapeake Bay Program with respect to an anticipated proposal to introduce the Suminoe oyster into the waters of...
Publication date: June 01, 2006 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This report is the third in a series in which the Chesapeake Bay Environment Model Package was used to assess the environmental benefits of oyster restoration in the Chesapeake Bay. Here, the effects of oyster restoration to all...
Publication date: May 01, 2005 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Sediment is the third biggest pollutant to the Bay and its tributaries. Tidal sediment comprises approximately 57% of the sediment load to the Bay. Excess sediment is a key contributor to degraded water clarity and damages critical...
Publication date: June 01, 1992 | Type of document: Report
The primary purpose of this analysis is to determine whether selected lateral and mid-Bay stations in the Chesapeake Bay mainstem have the same overall levels of certain water quality parameters.
Publication date: January 01, 1995 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Documents the findings of the two-year information gathering process of the strategy reevaluation but also recommends an approach for undertaking future toxics reduction and prevention actions in the Bay watershed.
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: June 28, 2000 | Type of document: Policy Memorandum
This is a brief description of air quality in the Chesapeake Bay region
Publication date: April 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: The Living Natural Bay/Ecosystems, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship .
Publication date: October 30, 1997 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
Both tidal and non-tidal wetlands critical role in the Chesapeake Bay ecosystem, is emphasized in this in this directive and specific actions are recommended to maintain existing wetland and to restore wetland acreage and functions in...
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: November 16, 1986 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This study was undertaken to compare results obtained with standard and alternative, new techniques for total nitrogen and chlorophyll determination in estuarine water samples.
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: January 01, 2001 | Type of document: Report
An assessment of ambient toxicity of Delaware public peninsula creeks where agriculture is the dominant land use. The assessment evaluates potential persistent impacts and potential intermittent or pulsed impacts. Three watershed...
Publication date: December 05, 2007 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
In 2006, the Chesapeake Executive Council recognized that retaining, expanding, and sustainably managing forest lands is essential to restoring a healthy Chesapeake Bay by signing Directive 06-01. This implementation document responds...
Publication date: May 23, 2007 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
This workshop was held to cover the topic of Sedimentsheds. sedimentshed is a new concept, and is defined as the area that contributes the sediment which directly influences water clarity in near-shore Submerged Aquatic Vegetation (SAV)...
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: 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: December 01, 1989 | Type of document: Management Plan
The goal of the Chesapeake Bay Striped Bass Management Plan is to enhance and perpetuate the striped bass stock in the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries, and throughout its Atlantic coast range, to generate optimum long-term...
Publication date: August 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Chesapeake Bay watershed model precipitation and meteorological data development and atmospheric nutrient deposition.
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: August 14, 2003 | Type of document: Fact Sheet | Download: Electronic Version
While Chesapeake Bay Program partners continue their work to restore native oysters, efforts are also underway to better understand the risks and benefits surrounding the possible introduction of non-native oysters into the Bay. This...
Publication date: March 07, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This report summarizes the findings of the workshop. The first objective of the workshop was to determine connections between issues, programs, agencies, organizations, and jurisdictions to advance their abilities to address atmospheric...
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: 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: 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: August 15, 1998 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Appendix F documents in detail the Phase IV Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model point source nutrient data assimilation process for the facilities located in signatory and non-signatory jurisdictions of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This...
Publication date: February 01, 2004 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
Available in digital format and hardcopy. The Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee (STAC), in cooperation with the USDA and the Mid-Atlantic Water Quality Program, convened a forum on innovation in agricultural conservation in...
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: 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: January 01, 1997 | Type of document: Report
This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds
Publication date: December 09, 2003 | Type of document: Directive | Download: Electronic Version
improving water quality is the most critical element in the overall protection and restoration of the Chesapeake Bay and its tributaries was the goal of this directive.
Publication date: June 19, 2000 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The phosphorus detergent ban was implemented in the Bay signatory jurisdictions in the mid to late eighties. After the ban's implementation, it became clear that the ban resulted in a significant reduction of discharge in phosphorus...
Publication date: March 08, 2001 | Type of document: Report | Download: Electronic Version
The Chesapeake Bay Program Education Workgroup seeks to define a common set of criteria to help the Bay watershed jurisdictions meet the intent of this Commitment of the Chesapeake 2000 Agreement. From these criteria, each jurisdiction...
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, 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: March 07, 2006 | Type of document: MOU/MOA | Download: Electronic Version
This resolution urges the Secretary of Agriculture to make the Chesapeake Bay Watershed a priority objective by heightening coordination efforts with other Federal departments and agencies in order to leverage resources available from...
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: 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.
