Clean Water Goal Team Publications

This report explores how climate change and variability affect nutrient and sediment cycling and BMP performance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

View document [PDF, 14.4 MB] A Systematic Review of Chesapeake Bay Climate Change Impacts and Uncertainty: Watershed Processes, Pollutant Delivery and BMP Performance

This backgrounder provides an overview of updates, governance, policy and procedures for the Chesapeake Bay Program's suite of computer modeling tools in Phase 6.

View document [PDF, 293.9 KB] Understanding Phase 6 Chesapeake Bay Modeling Tools

Consensus recommendations for improving the tracking, reporting, and verification of Urban Nutrient Management practices in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed.

View document [PDF, 3.3 MB] Urban Nutrient Management BMP Expert Panel Updated Recommendations Report

This report outlines recommendations regarding the crediting of alley cropping and silvopasture for their water quality benefits in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Model.

View document [PDF, 608.1 KB] Agroforestry BMP Expert Panel Establishment Group Report

This report review the available science on the nutrient and sediment removal efficiencies associated with agricultural ditch best management practices.

View document [PDF, 3.5 MB] Agricultural Ditch Management BMP Expert Panel Report

This document provides a detailed framework by which Chesapeake Bay Program partners will build rigor and transparency for best management practice verification.

View document [PDF, 1.5 MB] Strengthening Verification of Best Management Practices Implemented in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed

This report provides protocols to estimate the nutrient and sediment pollutant load reduction associated with different shoreline management practices.

View document [PDF, 5.3 MB] Shoreline Management BMP Expert Panel Report

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

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

View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Recommendations of Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Cover Crop Practices

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

View document [PDF, 1.9 MB] Recommendations of Phase 6 Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Conservation Tillage Practices

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

View document [PDF, 2.9 MB] Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Nutrient Management Practices

Recommendations from 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.

View document [PDF, 4.4 MB] Wetland Expert Panel Recommendations for Non-tidal Wetland BMPs

Manure Treatment Technologies BMP Expert Panel Recommendations

View document [PDF, 4.5 MB] Manure Treatment Technologies BMP Expert Panel Recommendations

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.

View document [PDF, 3.7 MB] Impervious Disconnection to Amended Soils BMP Expert Panel Report

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

View document [PDF, 3.9 MB] Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Oyster Aquaculture Practices

Animal Waste Management Systems Expert Panel Recommendations

View document [PDF, 3.5 MB] Animal Waste Management Systems Expert Panel Recommendations

Recommendations from an expert panel for the Urban Tree Canopy Expansion best management practice, as well as for an Urban Forest Planting BMP.

View document [PDF, 4.2 MB] Urban Tree Canopy BMP Expert Panel Recommendations

Recommendations on how sediment and nutrient removal credits are calculated for street and storm drain cleaning.

View document [PDF, 3.1 MB] Street Sweeping and Storm Drain Cleaning BMP Expert Panel Report

Report outlining comparisons of selected lateral and mid-Bay stations in the Chesapeake Bay mainstem to see if they have the same overall levels of certain water quality parameters.

View document [PDF, 6.0 MB] Comparison of Mid-Bay and Lateral Station Water Quality Data in the Chesapeake Bay Mainstem

Continuous High Residue Minimum Soil Disturbance BMP Definition and Recommended Sediment Reduction Efficiencies for Use in Phase 5.3.2 of the Chesapeake Bay Program Watershed Model.

View document [PDF, 1.0 MB] Continuous High Residue Minimum Soil Disturbance BMP