Chesapeake Bay Foundation - Save the Bay: Resources

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The Chesapeake Bay watershed covers 64,000 square miles in six states and the District of Columbia. To understand how it "works," protect it, and restore its health, we must have a sense of the whole system, and how its pieces fit together geographically.

Geography

Pollution

2007 Bad Waters Report
State of the Bay: Past, Present, Future (interactive)
2005 Dead Zone
Global Distribution of Coastal Pollution
The Chesapeake's Airshed
Delivered Yield of Total Nitrogen to the Bay
Location of Major Sewage Treatment Plants
Total Manure Nitrogen in Watershed Counties
Impaired Waterways in Pennsylvania

Land Use

Percent of Forest Cover in the Watershed
Watershed Population Growth
Baltimore-Washington Green Network

Aquatic Life

Restoration

Watershed Restoration Projects

Fish Kill in Virginia

The "Dead Zone"
Imagine what life would be like if, for months at a time, the air we breathed contained little or no oxygen. The Chesapeake Bay's "dead zone," stretching for hundreds of square miles during the summer, has too little oxygen to support a healthy ecosystem. Though you can't see it, the "dead zone" has a devastating impact on the creatures living in the Bay and its tributaries.

Read our fact sheets about the "dead zone" and other issues to learn more about the Bay.