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Home  >   Buzzards Bay Pollution  >   Nitrogen Pollution

Nitrogen Pollution in Buzzards Bay

Sub-pages:   Nitrogen Management Tools  |   Subwatershed Data  |  

Related pages:     1992 Nitrogen Action Plan |  Citizen Monitoring Program |  Toxics Pollution |  Stormwater Pollution |  Oil Pollution


DEP's Massachusetts Estuaries Project

Background

Overview of Program
Oceancscience.net web site (primary host)
Overview of Program
DEP site

Overview of Program
Umass Dartmouth SMAST web site

DEP Fact Sheet
Covers TMDL issues

DEP's list of estuaries
Schedule subject to change

MEP 2001 Pilot Project documents
Has the original planned schedule.

Multi-town collaboration
DEP web page with links

Nitrogen Management Tools
A Cape Cod Commission Report

Restoring Estuaries
A DEP Links page

BB Estuary Reports

West Falmouth Harbor
Completed

Phinneys Harbor / Back River complex
Completed

Wareham River Estaury Complex
Anticipated Aug. 2008

New Bedford Inner Harbor
Anticipated Aug. 2008

Slocums and Little River Complex
Anticipated Aug. 2008
A major focus of the Buzzards Bay National Estuary Program is to address nitrogen discharges causing coastal eutrophication. This page links to the major categories and initiatives under nitrogen management that are the focus of the Buzzards Bay NEP.