72 
Cruise 
Cruise 
Cruise 
% of 
% of 
Ref 
Number 
Year 
Month 
Space 
Time 
Curve 
1 
0.00 
0.00 
1 
1 
May 
0.7 
0.05 
0.02 
2 
1 
June 
0.45 
0.11 
0.05 
3 
1 
July 
0.3 
0.16 
0.09 
4 
1 
August 
0.25 
0.21 
0.11 
5 
1 
September 
0.2 
0.26 
0.14 
6 
1 
October 
0.15 
0.32 
0.19 
7 
2 
May 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
8 
2 
June 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
9 
2 
July 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
10 
2 
August 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
11 
2 
September 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
12 
2 
October 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
13 
3 
May 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
14 
3 
June 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
15 
3 
July 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
16 
3 
August 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
17 
3 
September 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
18 
3 
October 
0 
0.37 
1.00 
Figure VI1-6. Scenario 1: noncompliance established after one year of shallow-water 
monitoring. 
resources to different systems. Often, implementation of a monitoring program for a 
segment requires the coordination of various stakeholders and potential partners, the 
leveraging of resources, and the allocation of field crews. 
The Chesapeake Bay Program’s Scientific and Technical Advisory Committee has 
recommended that the tributary systems be assessed in their entirety for the full 
three-year period rather than evaluating individual segments of a tributary in 
different years (STAC 2005). This recommendation is particularly important for the 
larger tidal tributaries such as the Patuxent, Potomac, Rappahannock, York, and 
James rivers. These systems have tidal fresh, oligohaline, mesohaline, and poly¬ 
haline segments, all of which influence each other. To understand the vast ecosystem 
chapter vii 
Shallow-water Monitoring and Application for Criteria Assessment 
