TMDL for Fecal Coliform for the Lower Salinas River Watershed, Monterey County, California
An summary of the Regional Water Quality Control Board Central Coast Region report on Total Maximum Daily Load for Fecal Coliform for the Lower Salinas River Watershed, Monterey County, California [1] by the ENVS 560/L Watershed Systems class at CSUMB.
Contents
Summary
...a few sentences...
Location
The area of concern for this TMDL is the lower 400 square miles of the Salinas Watershed, including the watershed draining to the Salinas Lagoon and the river between the Old Salinas River and the Salinas River crossing at Gonzales Road. The project area boundaries are the Gabilan Range to the east, the Sierra de Salinas range to the west, and the Monterey Bay to the north east.
TMDL Development
...What pollutants are of concern? What are the indicators? How did they come up with the numbers?...
Implementation and Monitoring
...How are they enforcing/regulating this?
Stakeholders
...Who are the stakeholders in the watershed? e.g. agencies, non-profits, associations...
Laws and Policies
...What laws, policies are driving all of this?...
Tools
...What analytical (e.g. modeling) tools were or could be used?...
Future research
...What knowledge gaps remain?...
...Suggest a CWSP MS thesis topic that could contribute to the issue...
...Suggest a topic for a hypothetical study that had unlimited resources...
References
- ↑ Total Maximum Daily Load for Fecal Coliform for the Lower Salinas River Watershed, Monterey County, California
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