This component of COAST provides access to monitoring results and environmental indicators to help users review changes in water quality and evaluate progress toward water-quality objectives. The results from the CBP monitoring networks in the watershed and estuary and existing CBP environmental indicators are utilized in COAST version 1.0. Users will need to utilize additional monitoring results to assess changes in local areas.

Decision process for monitoring change and assessing progress: Implement an evaluation program to monitor and assess implementation of actions and water-quality change. Review CBP information and approach to help with assessments in local areas: Develop dashboards and associated environmental indicators to assess progress for implementing actions and improving water quality in selected area. See CAP dashboards. Review dashboard for implementing actions and progress toward water-quality goal. Use monitoring information and indicators to assess progress toward implementation of management practices and water-quality change in geographic area of interest. Assess how local efforts relate to basin-wide assessment of water-quality practices and conditions in the watershed and the bay. Review indicators for the entire watershed and estuary related to water quality: Implementing action to reduce nutrients. Water quality in the watershed. Loads to the Bay. Estuary water quality. Review CBP nontidal and tidal monitoring results. Go to “Evaluate changes to adjust actions” component of COAST.

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View selected environmental indicators to assess progress:

• Indicators of Efforts to Reduce Pollution in the Watershed
• Nitrogen
• Phosphorous
• Sediment

Water quality in the watershed:

• Stream health

Indicators for loads to the Bay:

• Nitrogen Loads and River Flow
• Phosphorus Loads and River Flow
• Sediment Loads and River Flow

Indicators for Restoring Estuary Water Quality (DO, Clarity, Chlorophyll)

CBP Dashboards to help assess progress toward goals.