Details for Impervious Cover and Land Use in the Chesapeake Bay

Impervious Cover and Land Use in the Chesapeake Bay (K. Cappiella and K. Brown, 2001). This report summarizes a Center study that analyzed 12 suburban land uses in four Chesapeake Bay watershed communities. The study derived impervious cover-land use coefficients that can be used along with land use data to estimate current and future impervious cover in your own watershed. Included in the report is a method of using these numbers to estimate impervious cover, a detailed study methodology, a review of other methodologies, and an analysis of research documenting the relationship between impervious cover and stream quality.