The NH Department of Environmental Services (NH DES) is responsible for developing nutrient criteria for estuaries over the next few years. The New Hampshire Estuaries Project Technical Advisory Committee will be the venue for discussions on this topic. Many of the committee members have expertise in estuarine water quality and eutrophication issues and are involved in ongoing research and monitoring activities that relate to the issue. However, anyone with an interest in the subject will be welcome to participate. This ad hoc committee will meet periodically to discuss the issue and review proposals from NH DES. The final recommendations of this group will be presented to the Water Quality Standards Advisory Committee.
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Nutrient Criteria for Great Bay Estuary
Send comments to phil.trowbridge@des.nh.gov
November 17, 2008
Agenda, Minutes
Meeting Documents:
Proposed Nutrient Criteria fo NH's Estuaries
Presentations by Ru Morrison, Shachak Pe'eri, and
Phil Trowbridge
June 10, 2008
Agenda, Minutes
Meeting Documents:
Summary of Changes to NHEP Indicators
Draft Methodology & Assessment Results related to
Eelgrass in the Great Bay Estuary
Presentations by Jim Latimer, Phil Trowbridge (eelgrass), and
Phil Trowbridge (water clarity)
December 7, 2007
Agenda, Minutes
Meeting Documents:
Options for
Developing Nutrient Criteria for NH’s Estuaries
Presentations by Ru Morrison, Bill McDowell, Paul Currier, and Phil Trowbridge
February 20, 2007
Agenda, Minutes
Meeting Documents:
Summary of Light Availability &
Light Attenuation Factors for the
Great Bay Estuary
Analytic Mass Balance Model for Nitrogen
Concentrations in Great Bay
Antidegradation and Possible Tier 1 Designation for Nitrogen in Great Bay
June 15, 2006
Agenda, Minutes
Meeting Documents:
Conceptual Model for Developing Nutrient Criteria for New Hampshire’s Estuaries
Presentation by Phil Trowbridge
Presentation by Cayce Dalton
Draft ASSETS Assessment of Great Bay
ASSETS Step-By-Step Guide
September 30, 2005
Agenda,
Minutes
Meeting Documents:
Presentation by Matthew Liebman
Presentation by Paul Stacey
Presentation by Phil Trowbridge
About Nutrient STEPS (N-STEPS)
http://n-steps.tetratech-ffx.com/
EPA guidance for the nutrient criteria development process:
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/nutrient/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2000. Aquatic Life Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen (Saltwater): Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. EPA-822-R-00-0012. Office of Water and Office of Science and Technology, Washington DC.
http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/dissolved/
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. 2003. Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Dissolved Oxygen, Water Clarity and Chlorophyll a for the Chesapeake Bay and Its Tidal Tributaries. EPA 903-R-03-002. Region III Chesapeake Bay Program Office, Annapolis, Maryland.
http://www.chesapeakebay.net/baycriteria.htm
NH DES Water Quality Standards Advisory Committee
http://www.des.state.nh.us/wqs/committee.html
For more information contact Phil Trowbridge.
