COAST\ Water Quality\ Restoration Mapper
1. Find a Watershed: Chesapeake Bay Chemung River, NY North Susquehanna, NY Antes Creek, Pa Bald Eagle Creek, Pa Chemung River, Pa Fishing Creek, Pa Great Bend Creek, Pa Juniata River, Pa Lackawanna Creek, Pa Lycoming Creek, Pa Moshanna Creek, Pa Mosquito Creek, Pa Pine Creek, Pa Potomac River, Upper, Pa Susq. R., Lower E, Pa Susq. R., Lower W, Pa Susquhannock Creek, Pa Toby Creek, Pa Wappasening Creek, Pa Wapwallopen Creek, Pa Choptank River, Md Eastern Shore, Lower, Md Eastern Shore, Upper, Md Middle Potomac DC Patapsco/Back Rivers, Md Patuxent River, Md Potomac River, Lower, Md Potomac River, Middle, Md Potomac River, Upper, Md Western Shore, Lower, Md Western Shore, Upper, Md Chester River, De and Md Choptank River, De Marshyhope Creek, De Nanticoke River, De Pocomoke River, De East Panhandle, WV Potomac Valley, WV Eastern Shore, Va James River, Lower, Va James River, Middle, Va James River, Upper, Va Potomac River, Va Rappahannock River, Va Shenandoah River, Va York River, Va
2. Select Yield Options:
Nutrient Type: Total Nitrogen Total Phosphorus
Select Yield Type: Local Yield Delivered Yield
Select Source: All Sources Point Sources Agriculture Urban Fertilizer Manure TN ONLY Atmospheric Deposition TP ONLY Non Agricultural
1. Select a State: New York Pennsylvania Maryland Delaware Washington, DC West Virginia Virginia
About the COAST Restoration Mapper
The COAST Restoration Mapper is intended to support the "Select Areas" component of COAST. This mapper provides CBP partners with tools to select areas to enhance restoration management actions. Managers can use this information in conjunction with additional information on local water-quality problems to select areas to enhance actions that will restore water quality in the Bay and local streams.
The Nutrient Yield Mapper (NYM) Tool
The NYM tool is used to map the Spatial Distribution of Nutrient Yields or nutrient "loading rates" (kg/ha/yr) in your watershed. For instance you may want to show watersheds with a high Total Phosphorous nutrient yield relative to other waterhseds in your Tributary Strategy Basin. This tool can help you identify geographical areas to start implementing best management practices. Start by selecting a watershed or State on the NYM By Basin or State tabs and then define what type of nutrient and source you want to see in your map window. This tool uses USGS the late 90's SPARROW version 3 model results. Click here for more about Chesapeake SPARROW or here for the USGS Fact Sheet - SPARROW Modeling
More Details on how to use the NYM tool... Open Help Window
Saving Results
There are two methods for saving your results in the mapper.
The "Save Results" link will only save the SpaRROW quartile data and the other map layers will be excluded. To save the view in your map frame, please use the "save image as" option.
