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CAST is an environmental planning resource designed for those protecting and restoring local water quality and the Chesapeake Bay. Register to create and edit scenarios for reducing nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment using various best management practices (BMPs), learn more about the additional ecosystem benefits (co-benefits) of those BMPs, gain access to additional tools and data, and receive CAST's monthly newsletter.
Did you know about the Ecosystem Benefits Browser, an interactive tool that visualizes and summarizes the goals, outcomes, and co-benefits associated with CAST BMPs?
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LAPGs
The LAPGs for each state are posted as they are made available.
- District of Columbia LAPGs
- Delaware LAPGs
- Pennsylvania LAPGs
- Virginia LAPGsay.net%2Fdocuments%2FSediment_factsheet_final.pdf&data=02%7C01%7CSwartwood.Hilary%40epa.gov%7C4bec538ae7804f0d856e08d7ca83a81a%7C88b378b367484867acf976aacbeca6a7%7C0%7C0%7C637200539109914498&sdata=NPoeKdTUOo48qIjZFeSjCaO3wQF15fFy06M8K2xKX6o%3D&reserved=0http://" target="_blank">fact sheet. A presentation describing decisions on sediment targets, methods used to generate sediment targets, and final sediment targets is available here. Conowingo Watershed Implementation Targets and Unaccounted Additional Loads were approved by the Principal Staff Committee. Separate targets were developed to account for the changes in loads due to changing environmental conditions (CEC). More information about the CEC targets may be found in the Ce III Watershed Implementation Planning Targets
Targets are listed by state basin. Several of the Phase III WIPs do not match the Phase III planning targets. Some of the states did not meet the planning targets while others exceeded the planning targets. Therefore, we advise not to use Phase III WIPs as a proxy for comparing progress to planning targets but to instead use the Compare Planning Targets tool, linked below.
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