Criteria Assessment Protocol Action Team

The Criteria Assessment Protocol Action Team's objectives are to create a partnership agreement on and MD, VA, DE and DC adoption of criteria assessment protocols for the remaining DO criteria in time for the April 2016 303(d) listing cycle to inform the 2017 mid-point assessment and prioritize and resolve additional water quality criteria assessment protocol questions from the partnership. The group currently collaborates with the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (WQGIT) , the Modeling Workgroup, and the Bay Oxygen Research Group (BORG) to address and advise on questions related to water quality criteria assessment protocols.

Projects

Ambient Water Quality Criteria and Technical Support for Criteria Assessment Protocols Addenda

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The water quality criteria assessment procedures published in these addenda supersede similar criteria assessment procedures originally published in the 2003 Regional Criteria Guidance.

Publications

2017 Technical Addendum: Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries

Publication date: November 28, 2017

This 2017 addendum provides previously undocumented features of the procedures for assessing attainment of the Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria as well as refinements and clarifications to the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment procedures.

View document [PDF, 4.2 MB] 2017 Technical Addendum: Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries

STAC Criteria Addendum Review: Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries: 2017 Technical Addendum

Publication date: July 19, 2017

This report provides refinements and clarifications for the previously published Chesapeake Bay water quality criteria assessment procedure.

View document [PDF, 677.7 KB] STAC Criteria Addendum Review: Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries: 2017 Technical Addendum

Peer Review for the James River Chlorophyll-a Criteria Re-evaluation

Publication date: July 11, 2016

Conclusions reached by a peer review panel convened to review two reports related to the state of Virginia’s numeric water quality criteria for chlorophyll-a in the tidal portion of the James River.

View document [PDF, 1.8 MB] Peer Review for the James River Chlorophyll-a Criteria Re-evaluation

Our Members

Tish Robertson (Chair)
Virginia Department of Environmental Quality tlrobertson@deq.virginia.gov
Matthew Stover (Chair)
Maryland Department of the Environment matthew.stover@maryland.gov
Peter Tango (Coordinator)
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) pjtango@usgs.gov
Allison Welch (Staffer)
Chesapeake Research Consortium awelch@chesapeakebay.net