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Chesapeake Bay TMDL
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EPA will establish and oversee achievement of a strict "pollution diet" known as a Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL, that will drive actions to clean local waters and the Chesapeake Bay.
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- Each jurisdiction in the 64,000-square-mile watershed – Maryland, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, West Virginia and the District of Columbia - will get shares of the pollution diet.
- The Chesapeake Bay TMDL will be supported by a series of accountability measures to ensure that commitments to achieving clean water standards are met.
Scheduled for completion in December 2010, the Bay TMDL will be the largest ever developed, yet it will allow states to target cleanup actions to local areas and sources.
- Actions under the TMDL will complement significant and ongoing work by EPA and its partners to restore the Bay.
What's New
- New..A menu of consequences that EPA could impose in the event of inadequate progress or plans to clean up pollution in the Chesapeake Bay and local waters is outlined in a December 29, 2009 letter to the states in the watershed and the District of Columbia PDF (5pg, 5.1M)
- Information is available on the full series of Bay TMDL public meetings held throughout the watershed from Nov. 4 through Dec. 17, 2009.
- EPA has provided the six states in the Chesapeake Bay watershed and the District of Columbia. with rigorous expectations to reduce pollution in streams, rivers and the Bay. EPA has also given these jurisdictions working targets for pollution reductions. Read more...
- Question of the week...What is the Condition of the Chesapeake Bay?
