Publications

This document contains the appendices to the Chesapeake Bay Basin Toxics Loading and Release Inventory point source loadings chapter. The appendices highlight the point source loads by facility, the chemical categories reported by SIC code.

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Focuses on a critical review of available data and information for evidence of impacts on Chesapeake Bay basin birds, mammals, reptiles and amphibians through exposure and uptake of toxic substances.

Outlines standard operating procedures for conducting sub-chronic toxicity tests with sago pondweed.

This manual is designed to assist local governments throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed with developing or enhancing household hazardous waste management programs.

The major recommendations of this plan is to institute a Baywide, core living resources monitoring program, built upon existing programs. Many of the detailed recommendations call for continuation, sometimes with modification or review, of existing programs.

Strategies to decrease the risks of future introductions of nutrients through ballast water management.

Background information on the use of build-out analysis and water quality/environmental modeling as land planning and water quality predictive management tools.

This report summaries the findings of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Blue Ribbon Finance Panel. The panel was established to identify funding sources sufficient to implement basinwide clean-up plans so that the Bay and its tidal tributaries would be restored sufficiently by 2010 to remove them from the list of impaired waters under the Clean Water Act.

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Annual progress report: Description of all fish passage development, reintroduction efforts, and habitat assessment activities by signatory jurisdictions. Summary of federal agency activities in 1996, as well as actions planned for 1997.

Provides field and laboratory methods and associated quality control procedures and criteria intended to generate data of known and documented quality for use in the Chesapeake Bay Monitoring Program.