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Nutrient Cap and Development of New Tributary Strategies
As part of our commitment to restoring the Chesapeake Bay, Maryland has been working to reduce nitrogen and phosphorus pollution reaching the Bay. The 1987 Chesapeake Bay Agreement, as amended in 1992, set a goal to reduce levels of nitrogen and phosphorus by 40 percent by 2000, and to maintain that reduction thereafter. An approach for maintaining this "nutrient cap" is set out in the Maryland Interim Nutrient Cap Strategy, developed by the Nutrient Cap Workgroup, consisting of Tributary Team members, other stakeholders, and state and local government staff. |
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In addition to this commitment, the Chesapeake 2000 Bay Agreement proposes to remove all nutrient and sediment impairments to the Bay by 2010. New nutrient and sediment reduction goals to meet this commitment are to be developed by April 2003, and new Tributary Strategies to achieve these reductions are to be completed by 2003. Maryland's Interim Nutrient Cap Strategy report will serve as a framework for these new Tributary Strategies, and information on the new Tributary Strategies will be posted here as it becomes available, which are now being developed by Maryland's Tributary Strategies Workgroup (TSDW). For more information on the TSDW, contact Jamie Baxter at (410) 260-8724. |
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