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Beyond 2025 Resource Binder
Publication date:Document containing links to several resources used to the guide Beyond 2025 efforts, including the 2014 Watershed Agreement, Chesapeake Bay Program Governance and Management Framework, Executive Council directives and more.
Testing Blue Crab Management: Simulating the Present to Sustain the Future
Publication date:This document summarizes a study that used the operating model approach to test the performance of blue crab benchmark assessments and management.
CBP Organizational Chart
Publication date:This organizational chart describes how the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership is organized into committees, goal implementation teams, workgroups and action teams.
Agricultural Advisory Committee Backgrounder
Publication date:This backgrounder summarizes the history and purpose of the directive that established the Agricultural Advisory Committee.
View document [PDF, 196.9 KB] Agricultural Advisory Committee Backgrounder
Strategic Engagement Team Background
Publication date:Background information about the role of the Strategic Engagement Team.
View document [PDF, 59.4 KB] Strategic Engagement Team Background
Briefing on Stakeholders' Advisory Committee
Publication date:This one-page backgrounder explains the Stakeholders' Advisory Committee's purpose, operations, priorities and more.
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Backgrounder: Statement in Support of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Justice
Publication date:This backgrounder provides context for the Chesapeake Bay Program's efforts to support diversity, equity, inclusion and justice, and explains the Principals' Staff Committee's DEIJ Action Statement.
Understanding Chesapeake Bay Modeling Tools
Publication date:This backgrounder provides an overview of updates, governance, policy and procedures for the Chesapeake Bay Program's suite of computer modeling tools.
View document [PDF, 293.9 KB] Understanding Chesapeake Bay Modeling Tools
Chesapeake Bay Program: Midpoint Assessment and Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans
Publication date:The Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (Bay TMDL), established by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) in 2010, calls for an assessment in 2017 to review the progress that watershed jurisdictions (Delaware, District of Columbia, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia) are making to reduce the amount of nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus pollution) and sediment flowing into the Chesapeake Bay and local rivers and streams. The Bay TMDL calls for all pollution reduction practices to be in place by 2025.
Backgrounder: Pollution Loads and Trends and Water Quality in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Publication date: Not listedPollution Loads and Trends in Rivers: The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) monitors nutrient and suspended sediment pollution loads delivered from the large watersheds located upstream of nine river input monitoring (RIM) stations to the Chesapeake Bay. Together, these stations—which are located on the Appomattox, Choptank, James, Mattaponi, Pamunkey, Patuxent, Potomac, Rappahannock and Susquehanna rivers—reflect loads delivered to the Bay from 78 percent of its 64,000-square-mile watershed. According to data from the program, nutrient and sediment pollution loads measured in water year 2013 (which took place between Oct. 1, 2012, and Sept. 30, 2013) were below long-term averages.