Development of the Chesapeake Bay watershed total maximum daily load allocation

Journal of the American Water Resources Association

Volumn 49, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 986-1006

  Linker, Lewis C ^a   Batiuk, Richard A ^a   Shenk, Gary W ^a   Cerco, Carl F ^b  

^a US Environmental Protection Agency/CBPO   (United States)

^b US ARMY ENGINEER RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Chesapeake Bay; Chesapeake Bay Program; Chlorophyll; Dissolved oxygen; Integrated environmental models; Nitrogen; Phosphorus; Sediment; TMDLs; Water clarity; Water quality standards; Watershed management

Indexed keywords

CHESAPEAKE BAY; CHESAPEAKE BAY PROGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL MODEL; TMDLS; WATER CLARITY; WATER QUALITY STANDARD; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SEDIMENTS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHEDS;

NUTRIENTS;

BAY; CHLOROPHYLL A; CRITICAL LOAD; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELING; INTEGRATED APPROACH; MARINE POLICY; NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; POLLUTION POLICY; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; STANDARD (REGULATION); SUBMERGED VEGETATION; TURBIDITY; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

CHESAPEAKE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84884978639     PISSN: 1093474X     EISSN: 17521688     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jawr.12105     Document Type: Article

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