Publications

Assessment of the distribution and abundance of submerged aquatic vegetation in Chesapeake Bay, its tributaries, and four Delmarva island barrier bays in 1996. Black-and-white photography at a scale of 1:24,000 was the principal source of information.

In January 1989, the Chesapeake Executive Council adopted the Chesapeake Bay Basinwide Toxics Reduction Strategy in fulfillment of the 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement commitment and pledged to reevaluate the Strategy in 1992. The Strategy used the requirements of the 1987 Clean Water Act as a foundation for action and initiated a multi-jurisdictional effort to better define the nature, extent, and magnitude of toxics problems.

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This report provides general information on environmentally-friendly landscaping throughout the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. The text covers everything you need to know from soil erosion to environmentally-friendly fertilizers.

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This is the fourth biennial progress report of the progress made by Federal agencies on the commitments made in the Agreement of Federal Agencies on Ecosystem Management in the Chesapeake Bay, signed on July 14, 1994 and the second biennial report of Federal Progress on commitments made in the Federal AGencies Chesapeake Ecosystem Unified Plan, signed November 5, 1998. This report covers progress from April 1, 1999 through April 1, 2001.

The coupled water quality-sediment diagensis model for the Chesapeake Bay has been enhanced with the addition of the dynamically-computed benthic biomass. The benthos was divided into two functional components, deposit-feeding polychaetes and suspension-feeding bivalves. An empirical relationship was derived based on monitoring data for the dominant species inhabiting the major salinity regimes of the Chesapeake Bay that related modeled areal biomass to characteristic individual size, so that filtration and respiration rates vary dynamically over time and space.

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Virginia regional and local stakeholders and partners involved in the nutrient reduction goal setting and tributary strategy development process were provided with in-depth information of direct relevance from the best data available to the Bay's scientific and technical community. This document is a synthesis of the overall findings and modeling results conducted during the assessment phase of Virginia's Tributary Strategy process.

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This document presents fundamental principles and guidelines for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed. This document is not a regulation. Rather, it is intended to be used on a voluntary basis as a guide for those Bay jurisdictions that choose to establish nutrient trading programs. The document is based on the Negotiation Team's comprehensive consideration of numerous other trading programs and approaches, substantial research, and corresponding lengthy negotiations.

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The Chesapeake Bay Program completed a document delineating nutrient trading guidelines entitled Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines - Draft and made this document available to the public for review on September 8, 2000. A series of public meetings were held during the months of September and October in a variety of locations around the Chesapeake Bay watershed for the purpose of providing the public with an explanation of the meaning and purpose of the trading guidelines, and to give the public a chance to comment on them. This document is a compilation of the public meeting proceedings prepared for each of the 16 public meetings.

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Following the release of the Nutrient Trading Fundamental Principles and Guidelines - Draft, sixteen public meetings were collectively held throughout the watershed in each of the signatory jurisdictions. All jurisdictions received numerous public comments during the meetings as well as written comments during the review period. This document is a summary of the comments (both during the public meetings as well as those written) received by the jurisdictions.

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This paper addresses the need for nutrient trading in the Chesapeake Bay, the process to develop baywide guidelines, and activities taken elsewhere in the Bay region.

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