First Annual Progress Report under the Chesapeake Bay Agreement 1985
- Published:
- December 1, 1985
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
The Chesapeake Bay Program findings clearly indicated that the Bay is an ecosystem in decline. The Bay's ecosystem is complex and difficult to understand, but some of the links between problems and their causes became clear in the course of the EPA study. Polluting activitiesoccuring throughout the drainage basin affect water quality in the tributary streams and the Bay. Degradation of the Bay's water and sediment quality which include inceases in nutrient concentrations. Decline i living resources are paralleled by changes in water quality which include increases in nutrient concentrations, chlorophylla, turbidity, and toxic chemicals and decreases in dissolved oxygen.