Watershed Technical Workgroup Publications

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

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

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

View document [PDF, 2.2 MB] Advanced OWTS BMP Panel report

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

View document [PDF, 5.3 MB] Recommendations of the Expert Panel to Define Removal Rates for Shoreline Management Projects

View document [PDF, 1.6 MB] Algal Flow Way BMP Expert Panel Report

The goal of this study was to identify the relative toxicity of ambient areas in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed by using a suite of concurrent water column and sediment toxicity tests at seventy-five ambient stations in 20 Chesapeake Bay rivers from 1990 through 1999. Spatial and temporal variability was examined at selected locations throughout the 10 yr. study. Inorganic and organic contaminants were evaluated in ambient water and sediment concurrently with water column and sediment tests to assess possible causes of toxicity although absolute causality can not be established. Multivariate statistical analysis was used to develop a multiple endpoint toxicity index (TOX-INDEX) at each station for both water column and sediment toxicity data.

View document [PDF, 6.4 MB] 1999 Survey of Community Watershed Organizations in the Chesapeake Bay Basin: Results and Findings

View document [PDF, 2.6 MB] Resource Improvement Report

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

View document [PDF, 1.2 MB] Stormwater retrofits expert panel report (without appendices)

View document [PDF, 954.5 KB] Stormwater Performance Standards BMP panel report (without appendices)

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