Water Quality Goal Implementation Team (GIT 3) Publications

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

View document [PDF, 594.6 KB] Water Quality Standards Attainment and Monitoring Outcome Justification

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

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.

View document [PDF, 44.8 KB] BMP Verification Principles

Recommendations from the Local Planning Goals Task Force regarding whether Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans should include local planning goals and, if so, how these goals could be expressed in different jurisdictions.

View document [PDF, 103.0 KB] Local Planning Goals Task Force Ph III WIP Recommendations

This paper places the issues and actions of the WQGIT into the context of the CBP decision framework to effectively implement the Bay TMDL and achieve the associated water-quality standards.

View document [PDF, 537.5 KB] Applying the Decision Framework to Attaining Water Quality Standards in the Chesapeake Bay

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

The proceedings of a 2007 workshop designed to gain insight into sediment and its impacts on water clarity and underwater grasses.

View document [PDF, 339.3 KB] An Introduction to Sedimentsheds: Sediment and its Relationship to Chesapeake Bay Water Clarity

A report on the proceedings of a workshop that convened sediment experts to share information on sediment best management practices.

View document [PDF, 808.5 KB] Best Management Practices for Sediment Control and Water Clarity Enhancement

A report on the proceedings of a September 2008 workshop that convened watershed managers, scientists, regulators, engineers and environmental restoration professionals to present and obtain new information related to watershed sediment science and policies.

View document [PDF, 239.7 KB] Fine Sediment and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Workshop Proceedings

The research needs and priorities of the Chesapeake Bay Program's Sediment Workgroup through February 2007.

View document [PDF, 45.5 KB] Recommendations for Further Sediment Research

Background information on sediment processes and data that can help determine where shoreline management and sediment reduction measures can improve water quality and restore and protect living resources.

View document [PDF, 237.7 KB] Sediment in the Chesapeake Bay and Management Issues: Tidal Erosion Processes

A review of the literature on the sources, transport and delivery of sediment.

View document [PDF, 7.4 MB] A Summary Report of Sediment Processes in Chesapeake Bay and Watershed