surrounding contaminant (predominantly nutrients and sediment) management are being, or have been, enacted. In the eastern United States, regulations [Florida—numeric nutrient criteria (NNC)] and consent decrees [Chesapeake Bay Watershed states—nutrient and
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Coastal Plain east of the Chesapeake Bay. Soils at both sites are level, uniform, deep, and productive. The Keedysville soil series is Hagerstown Loam, while the soil at Wye is classified as a Mattapex-Butlerstown Silt Loam. Keedysville is located close to
alterniflora ). The Weeks Bay National Estuary Program runs similar plant nurseries in Baldwin County, AL, high schools (M. Sedlecky, L. Allen, M. Anderson, and J. Reeves, personal communication). The Maryland Department of Natural Resources and the Chesapeake
at which nutrients can enter a water body ( EPA, 2011 ). The total average annual 10-year loads of N and P entering the Chesapeake Bay are 1.6 and 1.5 times higher than the 187 and 18 million pound caps for N and P ( CBF, 2010 ). As a result, since
affecting environmental quality. Schueler (2010) suggested that major reductions in runoff and nutrient loads could be achieved by changing attitudes about what constitutes an ideal lawn in the Chesapeake Bay watershed, where turfgrass covers ≈9.4% (1
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