Navigating the TMDL Process
Narrative water quality criteria are an integral component of States water quality standards but they pose special problems when incorporated into the TMDL process. The TMDL process is typically a...
Assessing Microbial Safety of Drinking Water
Inadequate drinking water quality and poor sanitation have remained the world's major causes of preventable morbidity and mortality. In 1996 the OECD called for concerted action to improve the...
Navigating the TMDL Process
TMDLs, or total maximum daily loads, are required under the Clean Water Act, Section 303(d), for waterbodies that do not attain water quality standards. The objective of this research was to...
Heterotrophic Plate Counts and Drinking-water Safety
Heterotrophic Plate Counts and Drinking-water Safety provides a critical assessment of the role of the Heterotrophic Plate Count (HPC) measurement in drinking water quality management. It was...
Developing Ambient Water Quality Criteria for Mercury: A Probabalistic Site-Specific Approach
This project examined the development of ambient water quality criteria (AWQC) for the protection of wildlife for mercury. Mercury is considered a serious risk to wildlife in many areas. As a...
Navigating the TMDL Process
This report offers recommendations for improving the listing and delisting process emerging from surveys of 8 states and review/discussion with other selected states.
The report evaluates...
Wet Weather Demonstration Project
The Columbus Water Works of Columbus, Georgia, conducted three demonstration programs that focused on the middle Chattahoochee River and addressed national wet weather water quality and...
Sources and Variability of Cryptosporidium in the Milwaukee River
The results of this project should enhance our ability to proactively improve the protection of public health. Equating the presence of pathogens to broad land use categories may help mitigate...
Physical Effects of Wet Weather Flows on Aquatic Habitats: Present Knowledge and Research Needs
This study explores the current state of knowledge with respect to the effects of wet weather flows from urban areas on the physical character of aquatic habitat. It identifies knowledge gaps with...
Development of a Water Quality Model to Support Newport Bay, California TMDL
Newport Bay (Orange County, California) is listed by the California State Water Resources Control Board (SWRCB) as a water quality limited receiving water body because of sporadic exceedances of...