Lower Eastern Shore Report

Lower Eastern Shore ReportThis report represents a regional effort to look in detail at the water quality and living resource issues in Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore, and the programs available to deal with them. It arises from a federal Clean Water Action Plan initiative launched in 1998.

It also builds on many years’ work by Maryland State and local governments and private interests to deal with the degradation of the

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Chesapeake Bay and to restore it to health and productivity. It represents a continued broadening of interest from water pollution alone to whole ecosystem health, from the Bay by itself to its tributary streams, from the water column to the watersheds that determine most of what is found in the water column. This report is part of a continuing process of assessing problems and causes, identifying opportunities for intervention, implementing corrective actions, and evaluating how well our environmental goals are being achieved.

Download the Lower Eastern Shore Report (8.41 MB)*

For more specific information about the report, please contact
Anne Sloan
Maryland Department of Natural Resources
580 Taylor Avenue
Annapolis, Maryland 21401
(410) 260-8790

*This is a large file and will take several minutes to download.


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