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Scott Phillips USGS June 14, 2011

Joint NTWG and TMAW Meeting: An Integrated Approach for Communicating and Assessing Progress toward the Chesapeake TMDL. Scott Phillips USGS June 14, 2011. Telling the water-quality story. How are practices being implemented for the TMDL improving the Bay and its watershed?

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Scott Phillips USGS June 14, 2011

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  1. Joint NTWG and TMAW Meeting: An Integrated Approach for Communicating and Assessing Progress toward the Chesapeake TMDL Scott Phillips USGS June 14, 2011

  2. Telling the water-quality story • How are practices being implemented for the TMDL improving the Bay and its watershed? • WQ GIT meeting outcomes • Improve communication • Summarize lessons learned • Integrated assessment • NTWG and TMAW

  3. Summarize lessons learned • Briefing document • Effectiveness of management actions • Bay watershed and other areas • “Source sectors” • Small watershed studies • Tie to tidal information • Database • Katie Forman

  4. Integrated Assessments • Link sources, BMPs, watershed and estuary • Need to better define approach, products, and team to carry out. • Pick 1-2 areas for initial efforts • Eastern Shore, • Susq/upper Bay, • Potomac • CBP modeling team, • NT WG, • TMAW

  5. Changes in sources and BMPs • Information used for CBP watershed model • BMPs implemented • Modeling team

  6. River water trends • Watershed monitoring network • Trends • Flow adjustment • Long term and 10 yr. • Lag times • NT WG

  7. Loads to the Bay • Annual changes to explain tidal water quality

  8. Water quality in the Bay • DO and clarity improvements • Link to living resources (where possible) • Lag times • TMAW

  9. Goals for Today • Present ideas for approaches • Summary and “lessons learned” • Integrated assessments • Communicating results • Discuss and decide on next steps • Proposed approaches • Tributaries for integrated assessments • Eastern Shore, Susq/upper Bay, Potomac • Products • Teams and funding

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