New Tributary Strategies Getting the Word Out

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New Tributary Strategies Getting the Word Out
Bruce Michael Maryland Department of Natural
Resources Rick Hoffman Virginia Department of
Environmental Quality
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Maryland Process for Developing Revised Tributary
Strategies

• 2 sets of public meetings summer and fall of
  2003
• Goals for first round of meeting
• - Inform stakeholders of proposed nutrient and
  sediment goals
• Inform stakeholders of the process to develop
  strategies
• Lean more about local efforts to meet new
  nutrient and sediment goals
• Garner public support

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Nitrogen Loading to Chesapeake Bay from Maryland
1985
2010 Cap
2000 Progress
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Maryland Public Meeting Schedule
May 28th Upper Potomac June 4th Lower Western
Shore June 10th Patuxent June 12th
Patapsco/Back River June 18th Middle
Potomac June 23rd Lower Potomac June 23rd
Upper Western Shore June 24th Upper Eastern
Shore June 25th Upper Potomac June 26th Lower
Eastern Shore June 30th Choptank

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Draft Tributary Strategies

• Draft Tributary Nutrient and Sediment Reduction
  Strategies developed by State Agencies
• Comprised of current information from Basin
  Summaries, i.e. basin descriptions, proposed
  nutrient goals, technical monitoring and
  modeling information, benefits to living
  resources, management recommendations
• Input from Public Meetings
• Distributed and presented to 10 Tributary
  Basins during the fall of 2003 for review and
  comments

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Information Needed from TMAW

• Tributary specific loading, water quality,
  habitat and living resource information
• Increased spatial and temporal information
• Better understanding of linkages across
  disciplines
• Analysis support for tributary specific issues