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Massachusetts Bays
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Summary Information
| Year Established: | 1990 |
| Location: | Massachusetts |
| Area of Watershed: | 19,038 square kilometers |
Overviews and Highlights
The Massachusetts Bays Program (MBP) is one of six National Estuary Programs situated along the New England Coast. The MBP, formed in 1990, recently completed a wide range of research, planning, and education efforts culminating in the Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan (CCMP) for the Massachusetts and Cape Cod Bays (1996). The CCMP is a blueprint for coordinated action whose goals include: assessment of the effects of and the reduction of toxicant loadings; and the restoration and protection of coastal habitat. Actions are the responsibility of federal, state, regional, and local governments; citizens; educators; scientists; nonprofit organizations; and business and industry. Currently, implementation of the actions to support meeting the CCMP's goals is taking place in individual embayments, watersheds, and even on a site-by-site basis in 49 communities from the New Hampshire border to the tip of Cape Cod.
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- Local Maps
Massachusetts Bays Study Area
(area where the program is concentrating its efforts)
Massachusetts Bays Watershed
(estuarine and fluvial drainage areas for the estuary)
- Regional Maps- Northeast
Locations of Estuaries in the NEP
Watersheds of Estuaries in the NEP
Study Areas of Estuaries in the NEP
