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The Chesapeake Bay (/ ˈtʃɛsəpiːk / CHESS-ə-peek) is the largest estuary in the United States. The Bay is located in the Mid-Atlantic region and is primarily separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Delmarva Peninsula, including parts of the Eastern Shore of Maryland, the Eastern Shore of Virginia, and the state of Delaware.
The watershed of the entire Chesapeake Bay covers 165,760 km 2 (approximately 64,000 mi 2 or 41 million acres [3] [4]). With an estuary water body area of only 11,600 km 2 (4,479 mi 2), [5] the land-to-water ratio is about 14:1. [6] Therefore, the rivers flowing into the Chesapeake Bay have a large influence on water quality in the estuary.
The Patapsco River Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System smart buoy. Chesapeake Bay Interpretive Buoy System (CBIBS) is a network of observational buoys that are deployed throughout the Chesapeake Bay to observe the estuary's changing conditions and to serve as way points along the Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail.
The University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science's (UMCES) 17th annual Chesapeake Bay and Watershed Report Card was issued at the Susquehanna River Basin Commission (SRBC) office in ...
The Chesapeake Bay Program is the regional partnership that directs and conducts the restoration of the Chesapeake Bay in the United States. As a partnership, the Chesapeake Bay Program brings together members of various state, federal, academic and local watershed organizations to build and adopt policies that support Chesapeake Bay restoration.
The Chesapeake Bay Bridge, connecting the eastern and western shores of Maryland was completed in 1952. Length of the suspension span is 2,922 feet and the roadway is about 200 feet above water at ...
Spanning the Chesapeake Bay, it connects the state's rural Eastern Shore region with its urban and suburban Western Shore, running between Stevensville and Sandy Point State Park near the capital city of Annapolis. The original span, opened in 1952 and with a length of 4 miles (6.4 km), was the world's longest continuous over-water steel structure.
The Chester River is a major tributary of the Chesapeake Bay on the Delmarva Peninsula. It is about 43 miles (69 km) long, [1] and its watershed encompasses 368 sq mi (950 km 2), which includes 295 sq mi (760 km 2) of land. Thus the total watershed area is 20% water. It forms the border between Kent County and Queen Anne's County, Maryland ...