Chesapeake Bay WaterColumn Contaminants Critical Issue Forum Proceedings
- Published:
- July 1, 1993
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
Rich Batiuk, EPA, Chesapeake Bay Program Office, described the objectives of the critical issues forum, the questions posed to the forum participants by the Toxics Subcommittee, and the process for incorporating forum findings into the reevaluation of the 1988 Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy. To ensure the findings from the Chesapeake Bay Water Column Containation Critical Issues forum are fully considered in continuing efforts to reevaluate the revise the Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy. 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 station. No formal presentations of water column data from the New York, Delaware, and West virginia portions of the Chesapeake Bay basin were made as the available data were very limited.