Maryland Water Quality Inventory 1986
- Published:
- April 15, 1986
- Originator:
- Chesapeake Bay Program
The Patuxent River has been a major focal point for water quality management in Maryland for well over a decade. As the Baltimore and Washington, D.C. metropolitan areas have encroached on the Patuxent watershed, long-time residents made policy-makers increasingly aware of the river's declining vitality and caoed for a reversal of declining aquatic resources and negative water quality trends. Substantial controversy concerning the choice of the best water quality protection strategy prevented much progress until a consensus was reach in December 1981. With the 1981 consensus as a foundation for action, the 208 Water Quality Management Plan for the Patuxent River Basin, approved in 1983, outlined a broad and ambitious approach for improving water quality in the river.