Chesapeake Bay Milestones

To continue accelerating progress toward meeting water quality goals, the EPA and Chesapeake Bay Program jurisdictions, including Delaware, agreed to set interim two-year milestones – or short-term goals – as a critical part of an accountability framework.

Chesapeake Progress

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The two-year milestones represent key check-in points toward achieving the pollution reduction measures outlined in Delaware’s Chesapeake Bay Watershed Implementation Plan (WIP).

The Chesapeake Bay Program (CBP) partnership is committed to continuing to make progress toward meeting the nitrogen, phosphorus, and sediment Interim Targets while the partnership is updating its modeling tools and the 2014 Chesapeake Bay Agreement.

During this transition period, the CBP partnership agreed to continue using the two-year milestones to maintain accountability toward implementing the partner-developed Phase III Watershed Implementation Plans (WIPs) and meeting the Interim Targets.

Through the Milestones, jurisdictions are expected to:

Identify the high-level pollutant reduction actions the Milestone Partner anticipates to occur in the 2026-2027 milestone period.
Include attributes to ensure consistency, accountability and ease of communications within/across Milestone Partners.
Make a connection to the Milestone Partner’s priorities that would maintain or accelerate the rate of implementation to achieve the Interim Targets.

2026 – 2027 Programmatic Milestones (DRAFT)

2024 – 2025 Programmatic Milestones

2022 – 2023 Programmatic Milestones

2020 – 2021 Programmatic Milestones

2018 – 2019 Programmatic Milestones

2016 – 2017 Programmatic Milestones