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New Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Criteria: Dissolved Oxygen   (149 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/14/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the dissolved oxygen criteria developed in 2001.

Technical Support Document for Identification of Chesapeake Bay Designated Uses and Attainability Available: Yes         Publication Date: 08/01/2003         Data Type: report The TSD was developed by the EPA and its watershed partners to be a companion document to the Regional Criteria Guidance. Because it describes the development and geographical extent of the designated uses to which the refined water quality criteria may apply, the TSD serves as a resource to the states to assist them in the development and adoption of refined water quality standards.

Bay Program Partners Adopt New Innovative Approach to Restoring Water Quality in Chesapeake Bay   (115 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/15/2003         Data Type: press release This press release details the new nutrient and sediment reduction goals, and new SAV acreage goal, for the Chesapeake Bay watershed.

Frequently Asked Questions About Restoring Chesapeake Bay Water Quality   (147 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/15/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This Backgrounder answers commonly asked questions about the new living resource-based approach to restoring Bay water quality.

Next Steps for Bay Water Quality Restoration   (162 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/15/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This Backgrounder highlights milestones in Bay water quality restoration between April 2003 and 2010.

Nutrient Reduction Technology Cost Estimations for Point Sources in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed   (6 MB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 11/01/2002         Data Type: report This report is to provide costs estimates for treatment technologies associated with varying concentration levels of nitrogen and phosphorus removal from industrial and municipal wastewater plants in the Chesapeake Bay watershed. The data will be used by the Chesapeake Bay Program to estimate costs of nutrient removal programs for all point-source categories across the Bay watershed during the nutrient and sediment water quality criteria and use development process.

Glossary of Water Quality Terms   (105 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/14/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This fact sheet defines commonly used water quality terms.

Restoring the Chesapeake Bay: How We Get There   (115 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/14/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This fact sheet overviews the new water quality standards and criteria that form the basis of the Bay cleanup.

Water Quality Protection and Restoration, An Innovative Approach   (120 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/14/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This fact sheet reviews the regulations guiding Bay restoration and provides an overview of the transition to the new water quality criteria.

New Chesapeake Bay Water Quality Criteria: Chlorophyll a and Water Clarity   (109 KB) Available: Yes         Publication Date: 04/14/2003         Data Type: fact sheet This reprint from the July/August 2001 Bay Journal overviews the chlorophylla and water clarity criteria underdevelopment in 2001.

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