Chesapeake Bay Program
A Watershed Partnership
The Chesapeake Bay
Targeted Watersheds Grant
Program provides financial
and technical support to
projects that expand the
collective knowledge on the
most innovative, sustainable
and cost-effective strategies
for reducing excess nutrient
pollution within specific
tributaries of the
Chesapeake Bay.
The Program is a
partnership among the
Chesapeake Bay Program,
the National Fish & Wildlife
Foundation, the Chesapeake
Bay Trust and the
Environmental Protection
Agency.
Chesapeake Bay
Targeted Watersheds Grant Program
2006 Chesapeake Bay Targeted Watersheds Grant Recipients
Recipient
Project Name
Location
Award
Crop Management Projects
Environmental Defense
Regional Nutrient Use
Efficiency in the Lower
Susquehanna River Basin
Lancaster and Chester
Counties, Pennsylvania; Cecil
County, Maryland
$582,500
Pennsylvania Dept. of
Environmental Protection
Park the Plow for Profit: A
Continuous No-Till Transition
Program
Lancaster, Bedford and
Bradford Counties,
Pennsylvania
$800,000
Maryland Department of
Agriculture
Innovative BMP Strategies in
the Choptank River
Watershed
Caroline County, Maryland
$796,600
Manure and Litter Management
Upper Susquehanna
Coalition
Cost Effective Nutrient
Reduction in the Upper
Susquehanna River
Watershed
New York
$500,000
University of Maryland
Enhancing Nutrient
Efficiencies on Dairy Farms in
the Monocacy River
Watershed
Frederick, Carroll and
Montgomery Counties,
Maryland; Adams County,
Pennsylvania
$998,300
Waste Solutions Forum
North River Watershed:
Utilizing and Exporting
Shenandoah Valley Organic
Resources
Rockingham County, Virginia
$1,000,000
Urban/Suburban Stormwater Management
Chesapeake Bay Recovery
Partnership
Corsica River Watershed: A
Community Response to
Pollution Runoff
Queen Anne County,
Maryland
$800,000
Susquehanna River Basin
Commission
Paxton Creek Watershed:
Stormwater Management for
Pennsylvania Communities
Dauphin County,
Pennsylvania
$725,000
Market-Based Incentives
Virginia Polytechnic Institute
and State University
Effective Strategies for
Reducing Nutrient Loads in
the Opequon Creek
Watershed
Frederick and Clarke
Counties, Virginia; Berkley
and Jefferson Counties, West
Virginia
$1,000,000
Virginia Tech and Virginia
Commonwealth University
Nutrient Assimilation Credits:
Opportunities for Enhanced
Oyster Production
St. Mary's County, Maryland;
Northumberland County and
Newport News, Virginia
$540,000

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