{"id":45153,"date":"2025-07-23T13:14:05","date_gmt":"2025-07-23T17:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=45153"},"modified":"2025-07-23T14:12:53","modified_gmt":"2025-07-23T18:12:53","slug":"public-input-invited-for-next-chapter-of-chesapeake-bay-restoration-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/07\/23\/public-input-invited-for-next-chapter-of-chesapeake-bay-restoration-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Public Input Sought for Next Chapter of Chesapeake Bay Restoration Work"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 382px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52064308006_8f2ef2910b.jpg\" alt=\"Moon over the bay\" width=\"372\" height=\"287\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Robert Fawcett, submitted to the 2021 <a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/Pages\/photocontest.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Maryland DNR Photo Contest.<\/a><\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">On Tuesday, August 5, Maryland will host an open house in Annapolis to provide information for the public about the recently released draft revisions to the<\/span> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/what\/what-guides-us\/planning-for-2025-and-beyond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Agreement is the voluntary plan &#8211; signed by Maryland, New York, Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency &#8211; that details priorities to restore the Chesapeake Bay for the benefit of communities across the region.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Experts from Maryland state agencies will be available to explain the proposed revisions to the Bay Agreement<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">and answer questions that attendees may have. There will also be an opportunity for the public to submit their thoughts on the revisions as part of the <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.chesapeakebay.net\/what\/what-guides-us\/planning-for-2025-and-beyond\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">public feedback period<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, which runs until September 1.<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><b>The Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement open house details are below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><b>When: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. on Tuesday, August 5<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Where:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Tawes State Office Building (first floor), 580 Taylor Ave., Annapolis, MD 21401<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Parking:<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Parking is available in Lot K, <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">directly across from the Tawes building entrance<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> (across from Herbert M. Sachs Drive)\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday, August 5, Maryland will host an open house in Annapolis to provide information for the public about the recently released draft revisions to the Chesapeake Bay Watershed Agreement.\u00a0 The Agreement is the voluntary plan &#8211; signed by Maryland, New York, Delaware, Virginia, Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., the Chesapeake Bay Commission, and the U.S. Environmental<a href=\"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2025\/07\/23\/public-input-invited-for-next-chapter-of-chesapeake-bay-restoration-work\/\">&nbsp;&nbsp;Read the Rest&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,33],"tags":[2982,4089,5355,5516],"class_list":["post-45153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-the-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay","tag-chesapeake-bay-watershed-agreement","tag-public-comment","tag-public-meeting"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45153"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45163,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45153\/revisions\/45163"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}