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Water Quality Trading & Other Market Based Approaches
This is a list of U.S. EPA policies and guidance documents,
descriptions of existing trading programs in the Chesapeake Bay
Watershed, relevant literature, and examples of trading programs/pilots
operating outside of the Chesapeake Bay watershed.
Polices, Guidance, and other Information
Existing Water Quality Trading Programs/Pilots in Chesapeake
Bay Watershed
Water Quality Trading Literature & Other
Information
- Nutrient
Net
- Environmental
Trading Network
- National Forum on Synergies Between Water Quality
Trading and Wetland Mitigation Banking - sponsored by the U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency and facilitated by the Environmental Law
Institute July 11-12, 2005 Washington, DC
- ELI Background Information on Water Quality Trading and
Wetland Mitigation Banking
- Morgan, C. and A. Wolverton, 2005, “Water Quality Trading in the United States”,
U.S. EPA National Center for Environmental Economics Working Paper
- Abt Associates (for U.S. EPA Office of Policy Economics &
Innovation), 2005, “Applying Lessons Learned from Wetlands Mitigation
Banking to Water Quality Trading”
- Eric Raffini and Morgan Robertson, 2005 “Water Quality Trading: What Can We Learn From 10 Years
of Wetland Mitigation Banking?”, National Wetlands
Newsletter
- National Agricultural Library: Water Quality
Information Center (Agricultural Research Service USDA)
- Dennis M. King, 2005 “Crunch Time for Water Quality Trading”
- Dennis King and Peter J. Kuch, 2003, “Will Nutrient Credit Trading Ever Work?, An Assessment
of Supply and Demand Problems and Institutional Obstacles,”
Environmental Law Reporter
- Breetz et al., 2004, “Water Quality Trading and Offset Initiatives in the US:
A Comprehensive Study,” (300+ page document – presents
information on specific programs, state programs, and points of
contact)
- Fang and Easter, 2003. “Pollution Trading to Offset New Pollutant Loadings
– A Case Study in the Minnesota River Basin.” American
Agricultural Economics Association, Annual Meeting.
- Kieser & Associates (for the Environmental Trading Network),
2004, “Ecosystem Multiple Markets”
- PA Department of Environmental Protection, 2003, “Draft Discussion Paper Nutrient Credit Trading for
Watershed Improvement PA Discussion Paper”
- Dennis Collentine, 2003, "Including Non-point Sources in a Water Quality Trading
Permit Program” Diffuse Pollution Conference Dublin 2003
- Kurt Stephenson, Leonard Shabman, 2003, “Putting the “Market” in Market-based
Water-quality Management Virginia Water Central"
- Ribaudo, M.O., R.D. Horan, and M.E. Smith, 2003, “Economics of Water Quality Protection from Nonpoint
Sources,” U.S. Department of Agriculture ERS Ag. Econ Report
No 782.
- National Wildlife Foundation, 1999, "A New Tool for Water Quality, Making Watershed-Based
Trading Work for You National Wildlife Foundation"
- Kurt Stephenson, Waldon Kerns, and Len Shabman, 1996, “Market-based Strategies for Chesapeake Bay Policy and
Management: A Literature Synthesis”
Other Water Quality Trading Programs / Pilots
- “Water Quality Trading and Offset Initiatives in the US:
A Comprehensive Study,” Breetz et al. 2004 (300+ page document
– presents information on specific programs, state programs, and
points of contact)
- Summary information on current trading efforts.
- Rutgers University Water Quality Trading Program Case
Studies
- Rutgers University Water Resources Program - Passaic Water Quality Trading Project
- Long Island Sound Water Quality Program
- Connecticut DEP, 2004, “Report of the Nitrogen Credit Advisory Board"
- “Facilitating Hypoxia Control in Long Island Sound
through a Nitrogen Credit Exchange Program,” 2001,
- The Kalamazoo River Water Quality Trading Demonstration
Project
- Idaho Wastewater: Pollutant Trading Overview
- Oregon Department of Environmental Quality
- Minnesota Rahr Malting Co.
- NC Tar-Pamlico “Non
Point Source Management Program: Tar-Pamlico Nutrient
Strategy.” View a presentation, "Pollutant Trading in North Carolina’s River
Basins," 2005.
- "Preliminary Economic Analysis of Water Quality Trading
Opportunities in the Great Miami River Watershed," Ohio July, Kieser
& Associates (for Miami Conservancy District), 2004
- Phosphorus Trading in the South Nation River
Watershed, Ontario, Canada
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