Draft Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement (Abridged Version for Early Stakeholder Input)Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • July 10th, 2013
NOTE: This preliminary draft is an outline of the envisioned Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement with some preliminary goals and outcomes. This draft represents the Chesapeake Bay Program’s early thinking and is intended to stimulate thoughts and ideas from stakeholders. Stakeholder input will be solicited again when a complete draft has been developed.
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • November 17th, 2020
and Management StrategiesChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • October 22nd, 2014
On June 16, 2014, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) Partners signed a new Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. It is the most inclusive, collaborative, and goal-oriented agreement for any watershed in the nation. Signatories include representatives from the entire Chesapeake watershed, bringing for the first time the Bay’s headwater states (DE, NY and WV) to full partnership in the Bay Program.
Draft – September 12, 2013 – Pre-Management Board Meeting VersionChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • September 19th, 2013
Issue: TMDL/WIPs, stormwater, agriculture and air deposition source sectors Updated April 10, 2014 (for PSC meeting discussion)Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 11th, 2014
Current LanguageExcess amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment in the Bay and its tributaries have resulted in many portions of the Bay being listed as “impaired” under the Clean Water Act. Restoring these waters is critical to overall Bay watershed restoration because clean water is the foundation for healthy fisheries, habitats and communities across the region.Goal: Reduce pollutants to achieve the water quality necessary to support the aquatic living resources of the Bay and its tributaries and protect human health.2017 Watershed Implementation Plans (WIP) Outcome: By 2017, have practices and controls in place that are expected to achieve 60% of the nutrient and sediment pollution load reductions necessary to achieve applicable water quality standards compared to 2009 levels. 2025 WIP Outcome: By 2025, have all practices and controls installed to achieve the Bay’s dissolved oxygen, water clarity/submerged aquatic vegetation and chlorophyll a standards asarticulated in the Ches
Chesapeake Bay Watershed AgreementChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • January 28th, 2014
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 10th, 2014
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement (Draft – 4/10/14) Issue: Participatory/Discretionary Language (pertaining to Management Strategies for Outcomes) Updated April 10, 2014 (for PSC meeting discussion)
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement Draft 1 for MB Consideration at Meeting on June 13, 2013 Agreement ContentsChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • June 6th, 2013
The Chesapeake Bay Watershed AgreementChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 16th, 2015
Spanning more than 64,000 miles and encompassing parts of six states, the Chesapeake Bay watershed is a unique ecological system that supports thousands of plant and animal species and nearly 18 million people living within its boundaries. A network of nearly 180,000 miles of streams, creeks and rivers wind through the surrounding land and eventually flow into the Chesapeake Bay, the largest and more productive estuary in the United States. To conserve, restore and protect this national treasure, federal and state leaders formed the Chesapeake Bay Program partnership. For more than 30 years, Bay Program partners have made considerable progress supporting fish and wildlife populations, reducing pollution and protecting lands and habitats—but there is still more work to do.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement Issue: Conowingo DamChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 2nd, 2014
Current LanguageThere is no language referring to the Conowingo Dam nor a goal and/or outcome related to theConowingo Dam in the current draft Options1. Status quo2. Add a new Conowingo Dam outcome under Water Quality Goal3. Add a new Principle statement referring to the Conowingo Dam4. Add a new Conowingo Dam outcome under Water Quality Goal and a new Conowingo Dam Principle statement Partner Comments1. Maryland• 2017 Conowingo Dam Outcome: By 2017, assess the impact of Conowingo Dam reaching dynamic equilibrium on Bay water quality standards. [The draft three-year Lower Susquehanna WatershedAssessment study has determined that the Conowingo Dam has reached “dynamic equilibrium,” which means that it is expected to now regularly scour during lower-level storm events and then trap sediment at normal flows, only to scour again.] 2. Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee• 2017 WIP Outcome - Provide continual updates to those implementing practices and controls on the determined effec
The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement: An Integrated and Adaptive Ecosystem Approach toChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • November 12th, 2014
This new Agreement is the most inclusive, collaborative, and goal-oriented agreement for any watershed in the nation. Signatories include representatives from the entire Chesapeake watershed, including: the original signatory
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 17th, 2023
Ridgway M. Hall, Jr. Attorney at LawChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 12th, 2014
This letter sets forth my comments on the draft Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement dated January 29, 2014. By way of introduction, I have been practicing environmental law for nearly 40 years. For 30 of these I was a partner in a Washington, D.C., law firm, where I started that firm’s environmental practice. In addition, I am a former Associate General Counsel for Water at EPA, a former officer of the Environmental Law Institute, a life member of the American Law Institute, and a Regent in the American College of Environmental Lawyers. I am currently Vice Chair of the Chesapeake Legal Alliance, Inc. However, these comments are submitted on my own behalf, and not on behalf of any of those or any other organizations.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement Issue: Conowingo DamChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 9th, 2014
Current LanguageThere is no language referring to the Conowingo Dam nor a goal and/or outcome related to theConowingo Dam in the current draft Options1. Status quo2. Add a new Conowingo Dam outcome under Water Quality Goal*See suggested language attached below.3. Add a new Principle statement referring to the Conowingo Dam4. Add a new Conowingo Dam outcome under Water Quality Goal and a new Conowingo Dam Principle statement Partner Comments1. Maryland 2017 Conowingo Dam Outcome: By 2017, assess the impact of Conowingo Dam reaching dynamic equilibrium on Bay water quality standards. [The draft three-year Lower Susquehanna WatershedAssessment study has determined that the Conowingo Dam has reached “dynamic equilibrium,” which means that it is expected to now regularly scour during lower-level storm events and then trap sediment at normal flows, only to scour again.] 2. Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee 2017 WIP Outcome - Provide continual updates to those implementing practic
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement Issue: Climate ChangeChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 1st, 2014
Current LanguageThe term “climate change” is not used anywhere in the draft Agreement. It is addressed more generally as “changing environmental conditions” in three different sections (see italics language below.)- Preamble: “Much progress has been made, but there is more to do especially in the face of continued challenges such as changes in population, loss of farm and forest lands and changing environmental conditions.”- Principles: “The Partners will: anticipate changing conditions, including long-term trends in sea level, temperature, precipitation, land use and other variables.”- Management Strategy Development and Implementation: “Management strategies may address multiple outcomes if deemed appropriate. Goal Implementation Teams will re-evaluate biennially and update them as necessary, with attention to changing environmental and economic conditions. Policy changes to address these conditions and minimize obstacles to achieve the outcome may be identified.” Options1. Status qu
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 16th, 2015
In June 2014, the Chesapeake Executive Council, which includes leaders from six states and the District of Columbia, and representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, signed the landmark Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. This restoration, conservation and stewardship accord contains ten interconnected goals and thirty-one measurable, time-bound outcomes that will help create a healthy ecosystem. The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Goal Implementation Teams have developed draft management strategies that outline our plans to meet those thirty-one outcomes. The twenty-five strategies are grouped into five themes that align with Bay Program partners’ vision, described in the Watershed Agreement: Clean Water, Abundant Life, Climate Change, Conserved Lands and Engaged Communities.
Overview: The new Chesapeake Bay Watershed AgreementChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • May 22nd, 2014
The Chesapeake Bay Program has accomplished a great deal since the signing of the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement in 1983, but we still have much left to do.
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement Brook Trout Management StrategyChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • February 24th, 2015
Vital Habitats Goal: Restore, enhance, and protect a network of land and water habitats to support fish and wildlife, and to afford other public benefits, including water quality, recreational uses and scenic value across the watershed.
The 2014 Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement: An Integrated and Adaptive Ecosystem Approach toChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • November 12th, 2014
This new Agreement is the most inclusive, collaborative, and goal-oriented agreement for any watershed in the nation. Signatories include representatives from the entire Chesapeake watershed, including: the original signatory
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 17th, 2014
Although there is much to praise in the current draft of the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement I do have a few suggestions, the first of which I believe is EXTREMELY important and hopefully will not be dismissed out of hand simply as a result of ingrained prejudicial thinking.
PREAMBLEChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • June 11th, 2014
OverviewChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • December 6th, 2013
The Chesapeake Bay Program has accomplished a great deal since the signing of the first Chesapeake Bay Agreement in 1983, but we still have much left to do.
Draft Agreement ContentsChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • June 19th, 2013
Management StrategiesChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 15th, 2015
A single document that summarizes the Partnership’s management process and the collective thinking for each outcome or related group of outcomes.
comments/issues to be considered for revision of the draft full agreement filename “draft agreement for mb 7-11-13 post psc 6-27-13”Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • August 27th, 2013
PSC/MB Decision “shall do” Signatory Comment Consider Other Partner Comment Consider Stakeholder/Public Comment Consider
Adaptive Management and the Chesapeake Bay Watershed AgreementChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 27th, 2016
Draft Agreement ContentsChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • June 26th, 2013
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 16th, 2015
In June 2014, the Chesapeake Executive Council, which includes leaders from six states and the District of Columbia, and representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, signed the landmark Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. This restoration, conservation and stewardship accord contains ten interconnected goals and thirty-one measurable, time-bound outcomes that will help create a healthy ecosystem. The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Goal Implementation Teams have developed draft management strategies that outline our plans to meet those thirty-one outcomes. The twenty-five strategies are grouped into five themes that align with Bay Program partners’ vision, described in the Watershed Agreement: Engaged Communities, Abundant Life, Clean Water, Climate Change and Conserved Lands.
AGREEMENT STRUCTUREChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • December 2nd, 2013
Sustainable Fisheries Goal: Protect, restore, and enhance finfish, shellfish and other living resources, their habitats and ecological relationships to sustain all fisheries and provide for a balanced ecosystem in the watershed and Bay.
Issue: TMDL/WIPs, stormwater, agriculture and air deposition source sectorsChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • April 1st, 2014
Current LanguageExcess amounts of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment in the Bay and its tributaries have resulted in many portions of the Bay being listed as “impaired” under the Clean Water Act. Restoring these waters is critical to overall Bay watershed restoration because clean water is the foundation for healthy fisheries, habitats and communities across the region.Goal: Reduce pollutants to achieve the water quality necessary to support the aquatic living resources of the Bay and its tributaries and protect human health.2017 Watershed Implementation Plans (WIP) Outcome: By 2017, have practices and controls in place that are expected to achieve 60% of the nutrient and sediment pollution load reductions necessary to achieve applicable water quality standards compared to 2009 levels.2025 WIP Outcome: By 2025, have all practices and controls installed to achieve the Bay’sdissolved oxygen, water clarity/submerged aquatic vegetation and chlorophyll a standards as articulated in the Chesa
Mr. Nicholas DiPasqualeChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 18th, 2014
Potomac Riverkeeper (PRK) protects the public's right to clean water in the rivers and streams throughout the Potomac Watershed. We stop pollution to promote safe drinking water, protect healthy river habitats and enhance public use and enjoyment. PRK wishes to thank the Chesapeake Executive Council for working to create a new Chesapeake Bay Agreement (Agreement) that encompasses all the States in the Bay Region. It is important to PRK that all the States share in their responsibilities to ensure the rivers and streams, and ultimately the Bay, have the protections that are necessary for clean water and healthy habitats.
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • March 16th, 2015
In June 2014, the Chesapeake Executive Council, which includes leaders from six states and the District of Columbia, and representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Chesapeake Bay Commission, signed the landmark Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement. This restoration, conservation and stewardship accord contains ten interconnected goals and thirty-one measurable, time-bound outcomes that will help create a healthy ecosystem. The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Goal Implementation Teams have developed draft management strategies that outline our plans to meet those thirty-one outcomes. The twenty-five strategies are grouped into five themes that align with Bay Program partners’ vision, described in the Watershed Agreement: Conserved Lands, Abundant Life, Clean Water, Climate Change and Engaged Communities.
Draft – December 1, 2014Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • December 4th, 2014
For the past 30 years, the Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership have been committed to achieving and maintaining the water quality conditions necessary to support living resources throughout the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Building off these commitments and using the best scientific information available, the CBP partnership agreed to the nutrient and sediment allocations in the 2010 Chesapeake Bay Total Maximum Daily Load (Bay TMDL), a historic and comprehensive pollution reduction effort in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The Bay TMDL identifies the necessary pollution reductions from major sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment across the seven Bay watershed jurisdictions of Delaware, Maryland, New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia and the District of Columbia, and sets pollution limits necessary to meet water quality standards in the Bay and its tidal rivers.
DRAFT Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement: Abridged Version (7/1/13)Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • July 2nd, 2013
NOTE: This preliminary draft does not represent a complete version of a Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement and contains some gaps that will be filled in over the coming months. Rather, it is the Chesapeake Bay Program’s best thinking at this point in the drafting process to solicit stakeholder input.
ContractChesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement • February 14th, 2024
Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement (Draft ʹ4/10/14) Issue: Participatory/Discretionary Language (pertaining to Management Strategies for Outcomes) Updated April 10, 2014 (for PSC meeting discussion)
