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The federal EPA provides protocols for TMDL development in general at [http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/strathp.pdf] ,specifically for pathogens at [http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/pathogen_all.pdf] that outline the following components of a TMDL:
 
The federal EPA provides protocols for TMDL development in general at [http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/strathp.pdf] ,specifically for pathogens at [http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/pathogen_all.pdf] that outline the following components of a TMDL:
  
* Problem Identification
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* Identify waters requiring TMDL's
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* Priority ranking and targeting
* etc
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* Develop TMDL's
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* Implement control action
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* Assess control actions
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* Build partenerships and involve the public
* Implementation
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* Oversee consistentnational performance
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* Promote and support innovation
  
 
== Approaches to TMDL development and implementation in the Monterey Bay area ==
 
== Approaches to TMDL development and implementation in the Monterey Bay area ==

Revision as of 20:58, 11 April 2009

This page summarizes the development and implementation of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) plans in the Monterey Bay region of California. The page is being created by the ENVS 560/L Watershed Systems class at CSUMB.

Page editing notes & scoring rubric

This section of this page will be deleted once the page is fleshed out. Instructions to students:

  • When you START working on the page, enter your initials here (and save):
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    • Initials: PKD. Mainly working on: Monterey Bay area listings (first bullet)
  • When you're done, remove your initials, and save.
  • When done with a session, email everyone to say "I've just added _____".
  • There are 8 students. Each student should flesh out one section. The sections should be fleshed out in order if possible.
  • As you go, read everyone else's work and edit as necessary.
  • The whole page needs to be of good quality for anyone to get a full score. Individuals would only be downgraded if they made only minimal contribution. All would be downgraded if page fell short of being a brief but informative snapshot of a few example TMDLs in our immediate vicinity.

Background

Under the federal Clean Water Act, all impaired (e.g. polluted) waters in the USA must be placed on a list called the 303d list. A remediation plan must then be developed and implemented for each listing on each impaired water body. These plans are called TMDLs, referring to the goal of defining and achieving a total maximum daily load of each pollutant within each body.

Monterey Bay area listings

The 303d for the Central Coast Region of California is maintained by the Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board and can be viewed Central Coast TMDLs

The closest listings to Monterey Bay include:

  • <For each item on this list, we need: water body, pollutant, priority or category of listing, status (in development, approved, by whom, etc), and link to 2009 fact sheet for the listing>
  • Salinas River (including Alisal Creek, Atascadero Creek, Elkhorn Slough, Gabilan Creek, Old Salinas River Estuary, Salinas Reclamation Canal, Salinas River (lower), San Lorenzo Creek, Tembladero Slough)- Fecal Coliform. Status - in development. Fact Sheet [1]
  • Watsonville Slough, Pathogens, USEPA approved TMDL, Project Report
  • Lower Salinas River and Elkhorn Slough, Pesticides and Priority Organics, status - in development, Project Summary
  • <need about 20 of these>
  • You can use automatically end-noted references like this [2]

TMDL development and implementation

The federal EPA provides protocols for TMDL development in general at [1] ,specifically for pathogens at [2] that outline the following components of a TMDL:

  • Identify waters requiring TMDL's
  • Priority ranking and targeting
  • Develop TMDL's
  • Implement control action
  • Assess control actions
  • Build partenerships and involve the public
  • Oversee consistentnational performance
  • Promote and support innovation

Approaches to TMDL development and implementation in the Monterey Bay area

Approaches to each of the above components vary throughout the nation. Approaches that have been used in the Monterey Region are summarized as follows:

Regionally approved TMDLs considered

  • Bullet list of links to TMDLS close to Monterey Bay that have at-least regional approval
  • ...
  • ...

Problem Identification

  • Bullet list of approaches used in problem identification, with reference to above list of TMDLs
  • ...

...next component (see list of all components above) ...

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...next component (see list of all components above) ...

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...next component (see list of all components above) ...

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...last component = implemenatation

References

  1. Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board
  2. this is an example refernce

Links