Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT 3) Publications
A Systematic Review of Chesapeake Bay Climate Change Impacts and Uncertainty: Watershed Processes, Pollutant Delivery and BMP Performance
Publication date:This report explores how climate change and variability affect nutrient and sediment cycling and BMP performance in the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
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
Agroforestry BMP Expert Panel Establishment Group Report
Publication date:This report outlines the recommendations regarding Silvopasture and Alley Cropping Agroforestry Practice from the BMP EPEG.
View document [PDF, 608.1 KB] Agroforestry BMP Expert Panel Establishment Group Report
Agricultural Ditch Management BMP Expert Panel Report
Publication date: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
BMP Panel Report for Shoreline Management (Amended)
Publication date: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] BMP Panel Report for Shoreline Management (Amended)
Strengthening Verification of Best Management Practices Implemented in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed
Publication date:This document provides a detailed framework by which Chesapeake Bay Program partners will build rigor and transparency for best management practice verification.
Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects
Publication date:Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects (WQGIT Approved 7/13/15, WTWG Revised 6/1/17).
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: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.