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Past Publications

BMP Expert Panels

  • Recommended Methods to Verify Stream Restoration Practices Built for Pollutant Crediting in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

    Approved by WQGIT June 18, 2019 

  • Consensus Recommendations for Improving the Application of the Prevented Sediment Protocol for Urban Stream Restoration Projects Built for Pollutant Removal Credit

    Approved by USWG October 15,2019

    Approved by WQGIT December 9, 2019

    Revised by USWG and WQGIT February 27, 2020

  • Recommendations for Crediting Outfall and Gully Stabilization Projects in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

    Approved by WQGIT October 15, 2019 

  • Consensus Recommendations to Improve Protocols 2 & 3 for Defining Stream Restoration Pollutant Removal Credits

    Approved by WQGIT on October 26, 2020

  • December 12, 2019

    Recommendations of the BMP Expert Panel for Cropland Irrigation

    Executive Summary

    This Expert Panel was charged to determine the water quality benefit associated with the practice of irrigation on cropland, a practice of specific importance on the Delmarva Peninsula region of the Chesapeake Bay...

  • March 30, 2020

    Recommendations of the BMP expert panel for agricultural ditch management practices

    The Agricultural Ditch Management BMP Expert Panel convened in 2016 and deliberated to develop the recommendations described in this report in response to the Charge provided to the panel by the Agriculture Workgroup (Appendix D: Panel...

  • March 18, 2020

    Recommendations of the Wetland Rehabilitation, Enhancement and Creation BMP expert panel

    The Wetland Workgroup approved the formation of this expert panel to evaluate the effectiveness of nontidal wetland best management practices (BMPs) to reduce loads of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment to the Chesapeake Bay. This panel...

  • Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects.

    BMP expert panel report approved by Water Quality Goal Implementation Team: July 13, 2015

    Amended by WTWG and WQGIT: June 2017

    Further Amended November 2019

  • January 18, 2018

    Recommendations Regarding Agricultural Stormwater Management Practices

    WQGIT approved final report from the Agricultural Stormwater Management Expert Pane Establishment Group. 

  • Advanced On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems: Drip Irrigation and Peat Treatment

    The Chesapeake Bay On-site Wastewater Nitrogen Removal BMP Expert Review Panel was reconvened to specifically evaluate two proposed BMPs:

    1. Drip irrigation (at a higher TN reduction credit than currently given under the...

  • December 01, 2016

    Manure Incorporation and Injection Practices For Use in Phase 6.0 of the Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model

    WQGIT approved final report from the Manure Incorporation and Injection Expert Panel. 

  • May 15, 2018

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects (WQGIT Approved 7/13/15, WTWG Revised 6/1/17)

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects (WQGIT Approved 7/13/15, WTWG Revised 6/1/17).

  • July 01, 2016

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Floating Treatment Wetlands in Existing Wet Ponds

  • January 01, 2017

    Recommendations of the Phase 6 Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Cover Crop Practices

  • December 01, 2016

    Recommendations of the Phase 6 Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Conservation Tillage Practices

  • November 17, 2016

    Recommendations of the Phase 6 Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Nutrient Management Practices

  • December 19, 2016

    Wetlands and Wetland Restoration: Recommendations of the Wetland Expert Panel for the incorporation of non-tidal wetland best management practices (BMPs) and land uses in the Phase 6 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model

  • September 26, 2016

    Recommendations from the Manure Treatment Technologies Expert Panel to the Chesapeake Bay Program’s Water Quality Goal Implementation Team to define Manure Treatment Technologies as a Best Management Practice

  • December 12, 2016

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Disconnecting Runoff from Impervious Areas onto Amended Soils or Treatment in the Stormwater Conveyance System

  • Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Oyster Aquaculture Practices

  • December 19, 2016

    Animal Waste Management Systems: Recommendations from the BMP Expert Panel for Animal Waste Management Systems in the Phase 6 Watershed Model

  • November 07, 2016

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define BMP Effectiveness for Urban Tree Canopy Expansion

  • November 10, 2014

    Continuous High Residue, Minimum Soil Disturbance BMP: Recommended Sediment Reduction Efficiencies for Use in Phase 5.3.2

  • November 23, 2015

    Definitions and Recommended Nutrient Reduction Efficiencies of Nutrient Application Management: Phase 5.3.2

  • May 26, 2016

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Street and Storm Drain Cleaning Practices

  • Nutrient and Sediment Reductions from Algal Flow Way Technologies

  • Addition of New Cover Crop Species with Nitrogen Reduction Efficiencies for Use in Phase 5.3.2 of the Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model

  • Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects

  • April 20, 2015

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Reassess Removal Rates for Riparian Forest and Grass Buffers Best Management Practices

  • April 17, 2015

    Recommendations to Estimate Poultry Nutrient Production in the Phase 6 Watershed Model

  • Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for the Elimination of Discovered Nutrient Discharges from Grey Infrastructure

  • Recommendations of the On-Site Wastewater Treatment Systems Nitrogen Reduction Technology Expert Review Panel

    Approved by the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team, July 14, 2014

  • Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Urban Filter Strips and Stream Buffer Upgrade Practices

    Full version, with all appendices, as approved by the WQGIT on 6/9/2014.

  • April 14, 2014

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Erosion and Sediment Control Practices

    Full version of the report, approved by the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team, 4/14/2014.

  • May 28, 2013

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Individual Stream Restoration Projects

    This version includes Appendices A-G. [Updated to include test drive results and re-approved by the WQGIT, 09-08-2014 ]

  • March 14, 2013

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Urban Nutrient Management (short version)

    This short version does not include all appendices.

  • November 19, 2012

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Urban Stormwater Retrofit Projects (long version) with updated adjustor curves January 2015

  • November 13, 2012

    Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for New State Stormwater Performance Standards (long version) with updated adjustor curves January 2015

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