Bay Restoration Practices Resources

Bay Restoration Practices Resources

The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Urban Stormwater Workgroup has approved over a dozen BMP Expert Panel reports. These reports outline the definitions, qualifying conditions, and pollutant removal rates for restoration practices that can be tracked and reportedtowards achieving the pollutant removal goals in the Chesapeake Bay TMDL.

On this page, you can find everything you need to know about all of the Chesapeake Bay-approved restoration practices, including full Expert Panel reports, easy-to-read fact sheets, and plenty more!

[Recording] Community-Led Project Planning

Speakers: Tim Schueler - Hazen and Sawyer Aileen Craig - The Nature Conservancy [----] An often-overlooked element of successful stormwater project implementation is meaningful...
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[Recording] Finished and Unfinished Business in Stream Restoration

Panel Overview: CSN will synthesize what the four expert groups accomplished with the stream restoration protocols over the last two years. Next, an all-star...
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[Recording] Growing Your Watershed Stewardship Program: Part 1

Speakers: Sally Albright - Anne Arundel County Bureau of Watershed Protection and Restoration Suzanne Etgen - Anne Arundel County Watershed Stewards Academy Steve Raabe...
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[Recording] Growing Your Watershed Stewardship Program: Part 2

Speakers: Darcy Herman - Gunpowder Valley Conservancy Purnell Glen - Miramar Landing [----] Watershed restoration takes a village. By empowering community members to become...
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[Recording] Seeing the Forest Through the Trees in the Chesapeake...

Panel Overview: This panel will focus on how we elevate the standing of trees as an urban BMP in the Bay watershed by improving...
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[Slides] Bathurst and Hlas: Smart BMP Technology

Bob Bathurst and Victor Hlas' combined slides for the Runoff Rendezvous panel on New Paradigms for Managing Urban Floods, which aired on March 18,...
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[Slides] Claggett: Ramping Up Tree BMPs

Sally Claggett's presentation slides from the Runoff Rendezvous panel "Seeing the Forest Through the Trees in the Chesapeake Bay Watershed".
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[Slides] Community-Led Project Planning

Compiled presentation slides for the August 31, 2021 webcast, "Community-Led Project Planning".
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[Slides] Growing Your Watershed Stewardship Program: Part 1

Presentation slides from the September 15, 2021 webcast, "Growing Your Watershed Stewardship Program: Part 1".
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