Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT 3) Publications
BMP Verification Ad-Hoc Action Team Final Report
Publication date:This report explains how the BMP Verification Ad-Hoc Action Team addressed a 2020 charge from the Management Board and documents suggestions from the action team's leaders to the Water Quality Goal Implementation Team, Chesapeake Bay Program office and broader Chesapeake Bay Program partnership.
View document [PDF, 1.7 MB] BMP Verification Ad-Hoc Action Team Final Report
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 Phase 6 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 in Phase 6.
View document [PDF, 293.9 KB] Understanding Phase 6 Chesapeake Bay Modeling Tools
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.
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.
Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT) Governance Protocols
Publication date:The decision-making procedures and cross-sector communication processes observed by the Water Quality GIT and its workgroups.
View document [PDF, 176.4 KB] Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT) Governance Protocols
Documentation for Scenario Builder
Publication date:Creation of the Nutrient and Scenario Builder tool was achieved with the excellent assistance of the Chesapeake Bay Program Information Technology contractor’s team led by Jessica Rigelman. With her leadership, Jonathan Lewis, Robert Weiss, Mark Lane, and Aaron Knister built a complex functional software product under a very tight deadline. Their questions along the way helped to strengthen the methodology. Without Jessica Rigelman’s encouragement of all of us, this project would not have been accomplished.
View document [PDF, 3.1 MB] Documentation for Scenario Builder
Water Quality Standards Attainment and Monitoring Outcome Justification
Publication date: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.
2017 and 2025 Watershed Implementation Plans Outcomes Justification
Publication date:This fact sheet explains why the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement includes 2017 and 2025 Watershed Implementation Plan Outcomes and how these outcomes were developed.
View document [PDF, 666.2 KB] 2017 and 2025 Watershed Implementation Plans Outcomes Justification
BMP Verification Principles
Publication date:Developed by the BMP Verification Committee and Water Quality Goal Implementation Team, these principles were adopted by the Principals' Staff Committee to guide the jurisdictions’ development and implementation of BMP verification programs.