Water Quality Standards Attainment and Monitoring Outcome Justification
This fact sheet explains why the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement includes a Water Quality Standards Attainment and Monitoring Outcome and how this outcome was developed.
Description
Water Quality Standards Attainment and Monitoring Outcome: Continually improve the capacity to monitor and assess the effects of management actions being undertaken to implement the Bay TMDL and improve water quality. Use the monitoring results to report annually to the public on progress made in attaining established Bay water-quality standards and trends in reducing nutrients and sediment in the watershed.