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New York State’s Strategy to Address Nutrient and Sediment Concerns in the
Chesapeake Bay
Developed by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation
in partnership with the
Upper Susquehanna Coalition
Notes:
For review purposes we have broken up the Strategy into several separate files:
1. Sections I through IV are background. They are in the two files:
a. Background –General
b. Watershed Description
2. Section V is broken down into three files:
a. Agriculture V (A)
b. Forest, Wetlands and Other NP file V (B), (C) and (D)
c.
Stormwater, Point Source and Atmospheric file V (D), (E), (F) – NOT INCLUDED
note DEC lead
3. Section VI through XI are in the file Schedules, Funding and Other Actions
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Table of Contents:
I. Introduction – History of New York’s involvement in the Chesapeake Bay Program
 Socio economic descriptors
 Physical descriptors
 Current water quality characteristics
II. Other Chemung and Susquehanna Basin Strategies in New York
1. Watershed Action and Protection Strategy
2. Susquehanna Comprehensive Wildlife Conservation Strategy.
III. The Tributary Strategy Development Process
III (A). Support by Workgroups
1. Outreach Support Group (OSG)
2. Scientific Support Group (SSG)
3. Strategy Development Advisory Group (SDAG)
III (B). Strategic Planning Needs:
1. Water Quality Monitoring
2. Understanding of Bay Watershed Model
3. Suggestions of a Watershed Model Improvements
4. Research on Sediment Fluxes through Watershed
5. Development of additional Climatological Information
6. Support understanding of Legal, Administrative and Social aspects of the tributary
strategy
IV. An Overview of the NY CB Watershed, Nutrient and Sediment Sources and the Cap Load
Allocations
 Land use categories used in Version 5 of model and nutrient/sediment loads
o High Density Urban, pervious or impervious
o Low Density Urban, pervious or impervious
o Deciduous Forest and Wetland, evergreen forest or wetland or mixed forest or
wetland
o Pasture
o Alfalfa
o Hay, with or without nutrients
o Three types of Croplands
o Nursery
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Watershed delineations used in Version 5
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An Overview of the Sources and Loads
A discussion of the Bay Model computer analysis of NY estimates and other data that
will meet the cap load.
Cap Load allocations
V. Actions to Achieve Nutrient and Sediment Cap Load Allocations
V (A). NY Tributary Strategy – Agricultural Component
 The AEM Approach
 Status of Agriculture in the NY Chesapeake Bay Watershed, including the size and types
of farms, CAFO numbers and NYSDEC permit administration, agricultural land
distribution, a discussion on trends
 A summary of the County AEM Strategies that describe how each county will address
agriculture in the Watershed
 Strategic Planning Needs:
1. Continued Data Collection
2. Mass Balancing on Farms
3. Development of “New” BMP Efficiencies
4. Research on and Analysis of established BMPs
Developing Load Reduction Estimates for Agricultural using appropriate BMPs, each of the
following BMPs with a short description and scientific support:
1. Comprehensive Nutrient Management Plans
 Conservation Plans
 Loafing Lot Management
 Livestock Systems
 Energy production from Manure
 Composting
2. Barnyard Runoff Control
3. Conservation Tillage
4. Cereal Cover Crops
5. Land Retirement
6. Stream Protection
 Intensive Rotational Grazing
 Stream Protection with fencing and off-stream watering
 Off site watering
 Barn relocation
7. Stream Buffers
 Riparian Forest Buffers
 Riparian Grass Buffers
 How Buffer work in NY will help CBP Habitat Goals
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8. Precision Feeding and Forage Management
9. Tree Planting
 Christmas Tree Farms
 SWCD Tree sales
10. Carbon Sequestration
V (B). NY Tributary Strategy – Forest Component
 Review of Forests in NY
 Discussion on Forests as a Nitrogen sink
 Review of Nutrient Loads
Strategic Planning Needs:
1. Research on Nutrient Fluxes through the Watershed
V (C). NY Tributary Strategy – Wetlands Component
 USC Wetlands Program
 Projected 10-year project potential
 Funding sources and potential funding sources
 Potential nutrient/sediment reductions
 How wetland work in NY will help CBP Habitat Goals
V (D). NY Tributary Strategy – Other nonpoint sources: Roadbanks and Road Ditches;
Stream Corridor
 Roadbanks and Road Ditches
 Stream Corridor Restoration
 Buffers
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V (D). NY Tributary Strategy – Stormwater Component NYSDEC will write this section
 Stormwater Phase 2 Regulations
 How future reporting under Stormwater Phase 2 can help track reduction practices
 Other NYSDEC permits, such as Article 15 Stream permits
V (E). NY Tributary Strategy – Point Source Component – NYSDEC will write this section
 Sewage Treatment Plant reductions through upgrades and other practices
 Septic system upgrades, connections to STPs and other practices
 Other point source discharge reduction efforts
V(F). NY Tributary Strategy – Atmospheric Deposition Component – NYSDEC will writes this
section
VI. Implementing the Tributary Strategy - The Schedule and Priority Practices
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Detailed description of what efforts would be initiated beyond normal yearly
implementation efforts. Were would we start if we were given new funds? This would
be based on three sizes of funding increases: 1, 5 and 25 million, both as a “one shot”
time or a yearly appropriation.
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Schedule: Describe implementation rate. What load reductions will you aim for each
year and from what sources?
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Who is responsible for implementing the Tributary Strategy?
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Discussion on how tributary strategy will be integrated with other NY efforts to address
“impaired waters” NYS DEC will write this.
VII. Funding the Tributary Strategy
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How much will the strategy cost and who will pay for it?
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Estimated costs of meeting and maintaining the sediment cap loads. Current funding,
anticipated additional funding, funding gaps.
o EPF
o Grants
o Farm Bill
o Special Programs (CREP)
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Plan for filling funding gaps (may include market incentives)
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Summary table of practices, cost per unit and total cost, including discussion of
operations and maintenance costs.
VIII.
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Measuring Progress of the Tributary Strategy
How will progress be tracked and on what schedule?
IX. Future Refinements of the Tributary Strategy
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How and when will new data, new technologies, and new funding sources be integrated
into the Tributary Strategy
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Can point or nonpoint source trading help meet strategy goals and how?
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Information to be developed for the reevaluation in 2007
o Digitized forest, row crops and pasture
o Cattle (Dairy and/or Beef) numbers in at least some of the watersheds
o Single parameter analysis of important parameters to determine the Bay Model’s
sensitivity
o Analysis of Towanda WQ information in relation to other NY WQ data and the
Bay Model estimates.
o Analysis of other factors that may affect the load allocations for NY
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Denitrification in stream reaches
X. Actions to Maintain the Nutrient and Sediment Reductions
 What actions are you taking to maintain the reductions?
o Requiring composted manure in state projects
 Actions to offset future growth of loads.
 Actions to deal with old, poorly maintained, or failed BMPs
XI. GAP Analysis – future needs
1. Water Quality Monitoring
2. Understanding of Bay Watershed Model
3. Suggestions for Watershed Model Improvements or new modeling efforts
4. Research on Sediment Fluxes through Watershed
5. Development of additional Climatological Information
6. Support understanding of Legal, Administrative and Social aspects of the tributary
strategy
7. Strategic Planning Needs - Agriculture:
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Continued Data Collection
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Mass Balancing on Farms
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Development of “New” BMP Efficiencies
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Research on and Analysis of established BMPs
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8. Research on Nutrient Fluxes through the forested landscape (cite new WRI funded
research)
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