Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Load for Black Bear Creek, Oklahoma

Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Load for Black Bear Creek, Oklahoma
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 66
Release: 2010
Genre: Suspended sediments
ISBN:

"This report documents the data and assessment used to establish a TMDL for Black Bear Creek, a tributary of the Arkansas River. The 2008 Integrated Water Quality Assessment Report (Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality [ODEQ] 2008) identified Black Bear Creek as impaired for turbidity. ... The purpose of this TMDL report is to establish pollutant load allocations for turbidity in impaired waterbodies, which is the first step toward restoring water quality. TMDLs determine the pollutant loading a waterbody can assimilate without exceeding the WQS for that pollutant."--Page ES-1.

Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Loads for Sulphur Creek, Oklahoma

Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Loads for Sulphur Creek, Oklahoma
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 58
Release: 2010
Genre: Sulphur Creek (Bryan County, Okla.)
ISBN:

"This report documents the data and assessment used to establish a TMDL for Sulphur Creek, a tributary of the Blue River. The 2008 Integrated Water Quality Assessment Report (Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality [ODEQ] 2008) identified Sulphur Creek as impaired for turbidity. Data assessment and TMDL calculations are conducted in accordance with requirements of Section 303(d) of the CWA, Water Quality Planning and Management Regulations (40 CFR Part 130), USEPA guidance, and ODEQ guidance and procedures. ODEQ is required to submit all TMDLs to USEPA for review and approval. Once the USEPA approves a TMDL, the waterbody may be moved to Category 4a of a state's Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report, where it remains until compliance with water quality standards (WQS) is achieved (USEPA 2003). The purpose of this TMDL report is to establish pollutant load allocations for turbidity in impaired waterbodies, which is the first step toward restoring water quality. TMDLs determine the pollutant loading a waterbody can assimilate without exceeding the WQS for that pollutant."--Executive summary.

Bacteria and Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Loads for the Upper Deep Fork Area, Oklahoma (OK520700)

Bacteria and Turbidity Total Maximum Daily Loads for the Upper Deep Fork Area, Oklahoma (OK520700)
Author: Oklahoma. Department of Environmental Quality
Publisher:
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2011
Genre: Bacterial pollution of water
ISBN:

This report documents the data and assessment used to establish TMDLs for the pathogen indicator bacteria [fecal coliform, Escherichia coli (E. coli), Enterococci] and turbidity for selected waterbodies in part of the upper Deep Fork of the Canadian River Basin in Oklahoma, Logan, Lincoln, Creek and Pottawatomie Counties; The purpose of this TMDL report is to establish pollutant load allocations for indicator bacteria and turbidity in impaired waterbodies, which is the first step toward restoring water quality and protecting public health.; This TMDL report focuses on waterbodies that ODEQ placed in Category 5 [303(d) list] of the Water Quality in Oklahoma, 2008 Integrated Report (2008 Integrated Report) for nonsupport of primary body contact recreation (PBCR) or warm water aquatic community (WWAC) designated uses. The waterbodies addressed in this report include: Salt Creek OK520700030100_00, Camp Creek OK520700030220_00, Canadian River, Deep Fork OK520700040010_00, Dry Creek OK520700040020_00, Quapaw Creek OK520700040260_00, Bellcow Creek OK520700050020_00, Captain Creek OK520700050140_00, Opossum Creek OK520700050200_00

Urban Stormwater Management in the United States

Urban Stormwater Management in the United States
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 611
Release: 2009-03-17
Genre: Nature
ISBN: 0309125391

The rapid conversion of land to urban and suburban areas has profoundly altered how water flows during and following storm events, putting higher volumes of water and more pollutants into the nation's rivers, lakes, and estuaries. These changes have degraded water quality and habitat in virtually every urban stream system. The Clean Water Act regulatory framework for addressing sewage and industrial wastes is not well suited to the more difficult problem of stormwater discharges. This book calls for an entirely new permitting structure that would put authority and accountability for stormwater discharges at the municipal level. A number of additional actions, such as conserving natural areas, reducing hard surface cover (e.g., roads and parking lots), and retrofitting urban areas with features that hold and treat stormwater, are recommended.

Riparian Areas

Riparian Areas
Author: National Research Council
Publisher: National Academies Press
Total Pages: 449
Release: 2002-10-10
Genre: Science
ISBN: 0309082951

The Clean Water Act (CWA) requires that wetlands be protected from degradation because of their important ecological functions including maintenance of high water quality and provision of fish and wildlife habitat. However, this protection generally does not encompass riparian areasâ€"the lands bordering rivers and lakesâ€"even though they often provide the same functions as wetlands. Growing recognition of the similarities in wetland and riparian area functioning and the differences in their legal protection led the NRC in 1999 to undertake a study of riparian areas, which has culminated in Riparian Areas: Functioning and Strategies for Management. The report is intended to heighten awareness of riparian areas commensurate with their ecological and societal values. The primary conclusion is that, because riparian areas perform a disproportionate number of biological and physical functions on a unit area basis, restoration of riparian functions along America's waterbodies should be a national goal.