Nutrient and Solids Controls in Virginia’s Chesapeake Bay Tributaries
Publication: Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 128, Issue 3
Abstract
A model package including a watershed model, an atmospheric loading model, a hydrodynamic model, and a eutrophication model are used to evaluate the benefit of nutrient and solids load controls on the Virginia tributaries to the Chesapeake Bay. Quantities examined include nutrients, solids, chlorophyll, anoxic volume, mesozooplankton, benthos, light attenuation, and submerged aquatic vegetation. Nutrient load controls are beneficial in reducing chlorophyll concentration and anoxic volume but produce no major benefits for zooplankton and benthos. Load controls benefit aquatic vegetation biomass, but more extensive solids controls are required to restore widespread SAV distribution.
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Journal of Water Resources Planning and Management
Volume 128 • Issue 3 • May 2002
Pages: 179 - 189
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Copyright © 2002 American Society of Civil Engineers.
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Received: Feb 22, 2001
Accepted: Jul 24, 2001
Published online: Apr 15, 2002
Published in print: May 2002
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