Conowingo WIP Steering Committee Projects and Resources
The Conowingo WIP Steering Committee works collaboratively across jurisdictions and partnerships to effectively reduce increased nutrient levels in the Chesapeake Bay, resulting from the Conowingo Dam infill, through the successful implementation of the Conowingo Watershed Implementation Plan (CWIP) and two-year milestones.
What's New?
The following resources include the most recent issue of the CWIP progress newsletter, additional updates, and a comprehensive list of actions, decisions and meetings of the CWIP Steering Committee.
Conowingo WIP BMP Opportunity Analysis Web Viewer
The Conowingo Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP) Best Management Practice (BMP) Opportunity Analysis web viewer depicts areas found to be suitable for the implementation of at least one of the six BMPs modeled and mapped for the Conowingo WIP. The web viewer was created to help local practitioners plan for restoration activities and collect information that can inform their proposals for the restoration implementation funding that is available through the Susquehanna River Basin Commission.
Conowingo Sediment Characterization and Innovative and Beneficial Reuse Pilot
Following the infill of the Conowingo Dam and more recent interest in utilizing dredging as a mechanism for restoration, the Conowingo Sediment Characterization and Innovative and Beneficial Reuse Pilot project was developed to better understand what dredging might look like in the Conowingo Reservoir. Separate reports were created on sediment Characterization (SC) and Innovative Reuse and Beneficial Use (IRBU), offering key findings that can be used to inform dredging projects.
CWIP Webinar Wednesday
This CWIP Webinar Wednesday presentation, hosted in September of 2023, provided an update on progress toward the implementation milestones since the approval of the CWIP by the Principals' Staff Committee in September of 2021. The presentation also included an overview of funding opportunities from Maryland and Pennsylvania.
Tracking CWIP Progress
Maryland’s Pay for Success Program
Maryland's Conowingo Pay for Success Program offers millions of dollars in funding, through the Susquehanna River Basin Commission, to purchase environmental outcomes related to water quality and in line with the Conowingo Watershed Implementation Plan. This groundbreaking pay for success model supports projects within the Susquehanna watershed, with priority given to most effective basins as outlined in the CWIP.
PENNVEST Clean Water Procurement
State of the Octoraro Creek Watershed
Final Conowingo Watershed Implementation Plan (CWIP)
To listen to the pre-recorded webinar on the final Conowingo WIP and 2022-2023 Milestones, please click here. Associated documents are posted below.
Financing
See below for the Conowingo WIP Financing Strategy.