Select Topic Defining Restored - Dissolved Oxygen - Water Clarity - Chlorophyll a Designated Uses - Migratory,Spawning,Nursery - Shallow Water - Open Water - Deep Water - Deep Channel New Cap Loads Use Attainability Tributary Strategies Adopting Bay Criteria Cap Re-evaluation Watershed Partners Communication Get Involved Schedule General overview: Summary Info

Presentations, Information Sources, and Communication

The following are a series of continually updated presentations and presentation materials in both MS PowerPoint and PDF formats for download and modification to fit the intended audience.

General Audience Educators Bay Criteria Tidal Water Designated Uses

Cap Setting and Allocation Chesapeake Bay Models Bay Journal Articles Background Materials Information Sources

General Audience

• General presentation about Restoring Chesapeake Bay Water Quality including introduction to Bay water quality criteria, designated uses and allocations
  PowerPoint format (2.9 MB)
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• "Educator's Version" of the Restoring Chesapeake Bay Water Quality presentation
  PowerPoint format (2.5 MB)
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Bay Criteria

• Detailed presentation on the Bay dissolved oxygen chlorophyll a and water clarity criteria:
  PowerPoint format (3.3 MB)
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• Detailed presentation on the five designated uses:
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Cap Setting and Allocation

• Detailed presentation on the nutrient/sediment loading cap setting and allocation process:
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Chesapeake Bay Model

• Chesapeake Bay ProgramWatershed Model101:
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• Bay Program unveils draft criteria for clean Bay (Re-print from Bay Journal July - August 2001) .pdf file (287 kb)
• New criteria for Bay cleanup goals down to the nitty-gritty
  • Time Line
  • Proposed Designated Uses & Criteria (Bay Journal, December 2001)
• Bay Program to consider economic costs when setting cleanup goals
  • Proposed Designated Uses & Criteria (Bay Journal, April 2002)
• Bay Program narrows range for nutrient reductions
  • Behind the Tiers
  • Pulling Out All The Stops
  • Was 40% Right? (Bay Journal, May 2002)
• Fast food diet bad for Bay's tiniest animals / New criteria would improve quality of algae available in Chesapeake's food web
  • Who's Zoo in Plankton
  • Water Quality Criteria (Bay Journal, June 2002)
• SEDIMENT HAPPENS / The question is what are we going to do about it? (Bay Journal, July/August 2002)
• Deadline to set nutrient goals delayed again (Bay Journal, September 2002)
• Executive Council unlikely to set new Bay nutrient goal (Bay Journal, October 2002)
• Clearer picture of 'clean' Chesapeake Bay emerging
  • Analysis puts Bay cleanup tab at $19 billion (Bay Journal, December 2002)
• Concerns raised that criteria might not help sturgeon / Others call improvements in habitat enough for fish
  • Officials ponder whether cleanup deadline should be extended (Bay Journal, March 2003)
• Bay officials agree to slash nutrient inputs almost 50% from '85 levels
  • Bay officials hope for cleaner air, but prospects are cloudy (Bay Journal, April 2003)
• A Sunnier Future/Goal would more than double Chesapeake's grass beds by 2010
  • John Smith's Bay may have had less grass than once thought
  • Sediment goals set, aimed at SAV comeback (Bay Journal, May 2003)
• EPA study says new Bay criteria safe for shortnose sturgeon (Bay Journal, June 2003)

• Setting Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Goals for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed (414 kb)
• Frequently Asked Questions About Restoring Chesapeake Bay Water Quality (200 kb)
• Next Steps for Bay Water Quality Restoration (112 kb)
• Restoring and Protecting the Bay - How Much Will It Cost? (123 kb)
• Restoring the Chesapeake Bay: How We Get There (115 kb)
• Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Protection and Restoration: An Innovative Approach (120 kb)
• Defining Designated Uses - or Habitat Zones - for Bay Water Quality Restoration (157 kb)
• New Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Criteria: Dissolved Oxygen (108 kb)
• New Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Criteria: Clarity & Chlorophyll a (109 kb)
• Glossary of Water Quality Terms (107 kb)
• Complete Set of Restoring Water Quality Backgrounders (1.5 mb)
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A wide array of information, including information directly relevant to the process for restoring Chesapeake Bay water quality, is available on your local watershed through the Chesapeake Watershed Profiles. Through this point-and-click information system linking together the Bay watershed partners, one can access information on status of Bay criteria attainment by tidal water designated use, as well as information on pollution sources, recent modeling results, long term trends in water quality and living resources, draft cap allocations and more, from the entire Bay basin scale to local watersheds.

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