Water Quality Protection Value Resource Lands Assessment for the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Its? Chesapeake Bay Program A Watershed Partnership Data Sources: Chesapeake Bay Program For more information, visit www.chesapeakebay.net Disciaimer: www.chesapeakebay.netAermsofuse.htm 0 25 50 100 Kilometers Li—lJ-Ll-L-lJ I—i—i—i—I—i—i—i—I 0 25 50 100 Miles n Water Quality Protection Value Highest Water Quality Value Lowest Water Quality Value County Boundary The Water Quality model aims to identify forests and wetlands important in protecting water quality and sustaining watershed integrity. This "watershed value" is based on physical and biological functions that store precipitation, retain and assimilate nutrients, moderate runoff, protect soils and maintain important critical landscape functions such as those of riparian buffers. Atlantic Ocean Created by JW. 1/24/08 UTM Zone 18N, NAD 83 ------- |