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Buzzards Bay Nitrogen Management Strategy Origins

Origins of the BBNEP Nitrogen Management Strategies

This page provides some links to sub-pages that relate to the original formulation of the Buzzards Bay NEP strategy in the 1990s. The original justification of the approach is laid out in our nitrogen management action plan adopted in 1991 and finalized in 1992. We provide these links and correspondence to provide a historical context of current efforts to manage nitrogen in Buzzards Bay.

Reports and Correspondence

1990 letter to DEP on Marion sewage treatment facility.

1993 letter to DEP on need for statewide nitrogen approach.

1993 helping establish 4 bedroom per acre Title 5 limit for Zone 2s.

1993 letter to DEP supporting proposed revisions to Title 5.

1994 report on using MassGIS land use data to calculate nitrogen loading.

1999 Nitrogen Management strategy revisions.

Cover letter #1 to 1999 Nitrogen Management strategy revisions.

Cover letter #2 to 1999 Nitrogen Management strategy revisions.

1999 BBNEP Nitrogen Management strategy report.
Originally this document was to be submitted to a scientific journal, but because it was to long and unweildy, it remained an internal technical report used to help refine nitrogen management strategies in the Commonwealth. Within two years it was superceded by the more sophisticated modeling approach adopted by the DEP Massachusetts Estuaries project.

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