Maryland Coastal Bays Program
Protecting Today's Treasures for Tomorrow
9609 Stephen Decatur Highway - Berlin, Maryland - 21811 - 410-213-BAYS
Email: mcbp@mdcoastalbays.org
Year Two Report Card
ISSUES FULL SUBSTANTIAL MODERATE SOME MINIMAL
BUFFERS WQ 6.1 - Improve efficiency of sediment and erosion control program. WQ 6.2 - Reduce shoreline erosion rates CE 4.3 - Enhance the buffering
capacity of the watershed's tidal
and nontidal shoreline area. 		WQ 2.2 -
Improve stormwater
quality from existing
development. 		.
FORESTRY . . . FW 2.2 - Conservation
of forest. 		FW 2.1 - Improve songbird populations and forest habitat.
FW 2.6 - Conservation and use of forested land.
MEASUREMENTS OF SUCCESS (METRICS) . FW 1.1 - Accurate fish harvest information. WQ 3.1 - Improve understanding
of atmospheric deposition
of nutrients.
WQ 5.2 - Improve understanding
of tertiary sewage treatment needs.
RN 3.1 - Reduce resource impacts
from water -based recreational activities. 		CE 2.3 - Enhance
natural disaster planning. 		.
SUBMERGED AQUATIC VEGETATION . FW 1.6 - Seagrass protection and expansion . . RN 5.2 - Increase public awareness of resource protection needs.
WATER
QUALITY 		. WQ 2.1 - Reduce water quality impacts from stormwater discharges.
WQ 1.2 - Update septic system designs.
WQ 1.3 - Improve understanding of groundwater resource. 		WQ 4.1 - Reduce nutrient
pollution from farming. 		WQ 1.1 - Reduce failure
rate and inefficiency of
on-site wastewater treatment.
WQ 4.3 - Improve
management of drainage systems. 		FW 1.7 - Improve water quality in dead end canals.
WETLANDS . . . FW 3.1 Conservation
of wetland resources.

FW 3.2 - Improvement of staging, wintering, and nesting areas.
FW 3.4 - Coordination of wetlands regulations.

RATING
NOTES 		. . . . .
FULL Full implementation completed
or nearing completion (75-100%). 		The ratings to each Challenge in this Report Card of the Maryland Coastal Bays Program's Progress Report on Year One Actions Updates and Year Two Actions are the results of an intense evaluation exercise performed by the Tracking And Evaluation Sub-committee, composed of MCBP staff, key partners, and citizens. The Implementation Committee partners provide the raw implementation status data and also review the draft Progress Report. This evaluation seeks to measure how items listed as progress in the Progress Report stacked up against the specific language and intent of the Comprehensive Conservation And Management Plan (CCMP).
SUBSTANTIAL Major progress has been made (50-74%).
MODERATE Fair level of progress made (25-49%).
SOME Progress beginning (10-24%).
MINIMAL Very limited progress (0-9%).

Maryland Coastal Bays Program
Part of the National Estuary Program, the Maryland Coastal Bays Program is a cooperative effort between Worcester County, Berlin, and Ocean City which have come together to produce the first ever management plan for their bays.
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