Publications

This work contains the following themes as they relate to the Chesapeake Bay: Watersheds, The Bay as a Source of Recreation and Renewal, Environmental Stewardship and Sustainability of the Bay/Stewardship

This guidance document will better facilitate efforts to ensure Chesapeake Bay Program funds continue to be directed towards achieving the CBP's restoration and protection goals.

Appendices July 1990-December 1991. This is an archived document.

This document summarizes the proceedings of the critical issues forum held on June 22, 1999: Achieving a Toxics Free Bay _ The Role of Point Sources. This forum was the first in a series of critical issues forums held in response to the reevaluation and revision of the 1994 Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction and Prevention Strategy and the renewal of the Chesapeake Bay Agreement.

Represents a regional cooperative effort to gather all available information and assimilate best possible understanding of catfish biology, ecology and stock dynamics of native and introduced catfish species in the Chesapeake Bay system.

This is a compilation of articles based on the Chesapeake Bay Program: Science, Politics and Policy. These article include guest editors: Kent Mountford, Charles D. Rafkind, and John Donahue.

Evaluation of ambient toxicity to living resources during late summer/early fall of 1997 in the Elizabeth River (4 stations) and South River (4 stations).

This document summarizes the proceedings of the critical issues forum held on June 22, 1999: Achieving A Toxics Free Bay - The Role of Point Sources. The forum was comprised of a series of presentations, followed by three breakout sessions on the industry, governmental and environmental perspective on point sources. Several themes emerged throughout this forum that may be appropriate for consideration in a new toxics reduction strategy: establish and maintain partnerships, closing the loop on recycled products, the need to determine and then prioritize to fill data gaps, continue and enhance education outreach programs, engage pretreatment programs, continual improvement towards zero, and geographical targeting and basin specific toxic reduction strategies.

This Work Plan is a key initiative of Federal agencies and the U.S. Corps of Engineers. It establishes interstate ecosystem management concepts and the establishment of the Anacostia as a National Urban Watershed Restoration Model.

Representatives from the Bay basin jurisdictions presented findings from their respective water column contaminant monitoring programs, with emphasis on concentration ranges observed at Bay tidal water stations.