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A watershed-related issue examined by the ENVS 560/L Watershed Systems class at CSUMB.

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Summary

Passed into law in 1972, the Clean Water Act (CWA) is the principal federal law concerning water quality in the U.S..

Section 303(d)

Under Section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act, states are required to list impaired waterways. An impaired waterway is a waterway in which the pollution control methods set in place are insufficient to maintain or achieve appropriate water quality standards. The state uses water quality data to determine if waterways meet water quality standards. For each waterway listed as impaired under Section 303(d), the state is required to establish a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). TDMLs determine the daily loading capacity for each individual pollutant for a waterbody such that the waterway will meet the standards for that pollutant.^[1]

A list of Section 303(d) impaired water ways in California can be found on the State Water Resources Control Board's website.

Links

• The 303d list of Impaired Waterbodies in the Monterey Bay Region

• Central Coast Region Agricultural Waiver

• Magnuson-Stevens Act

• Water Quality Act

• TMDL
• TMDLs in the Monterey Bay Region of California
• Approaches to TMDL Development and Implementation in the Monterey Bay Area

• Total Maximum Daily Load for Fecal Coliform for the Lower Salinas River Watershed, Monterey County, California
• Total Maximum Daily Loads for Nutrients in Lower Salinas River Watershed in Monterey County, California

References

1. ↑ EPA Section 303

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