MANAGEMENT PROGRAMS  

Summit for Finding Common Ground in Controlling Agricultural Nonpoint Sources of Nutrients

THE SUMMIT

Purpose

Accepted Principles

Central Questions

Participants

Logistics

Reports

EUTROPHICATION

What is it?

U.S. Assessments

International Efforts

Management Programs

AGRICULTURAL SOURCES

Relative Importance

Fertilizers

Animal Wastes

Soil Mineralization

Management Practices

Cover Crops

POLICIES

Economic Analyses

Clean Water Act

State Statutes

Pending Legislation

A number of estuarine management programs include reductions on agricultural nonpoint sources of nutrients as an important objective:

• Chesapeake Bay Program

• Albemarle-Pamlico National Estuary Program 

• Delaware Inland Bays 

• Maryland Coastal Bays 

• Tampa Bay Estuary Program 

• Sarasota Bay National Estuary Program 

• Galveston Bay Estuary Program

• Coastal Bend Bays and Estuaries Program 

• Tillamook Bay National Estuary Project 

Last updated September 17, 2001