Transcript Document

West Virginia Department of
Environmental Protection
Patrick Campbell - March 17, 2009
Clean Water Act:
•Passed by Congress – 1972
•Objective - To restore and maintain the
chemical, physical, and biologic integrity of the
Nation’s waters.
The CWA
ingredients...
NPS Restoration
Implement through
Watershed
Approach
Water Quality
Standards for
waterbodies
NPDES
PERMITS
TMDLs- define
and allocate control
responsibility
Monitoring
Impaired
waterbodies on
303(d) list
Categories of Waters
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Category 1- Meeting all uses
Category 2 – Meeting some, others unknown
Category 3 – All uses unknown (unmonitored)
Category 4 –Impaired for a use; TMDL complete
Category 5 – Impaired for a use - TMDL needed
(the 303(d) list)
2008 Integrated Report Summary
Designated Use Support
Category 5
20%
Category 1
16%
Category 2
11%
Category 4
13%
Category 3
40%
Biological Impairment Sources
(based on 2002-2006 probabilistically sampled sites with WVSCI < 60.6)
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Current Water Issues in WV
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Selenium
Nutrients/Chesapeake Bay
TMDLs
Frac. Water from O&G operations
Antidegradation Tier 3
Selenium
• Expect comment on revised national
recommended criteria this summer
– Continued movement to a tissue standard
• Several companies testing differing
treatment technologies
• Material handling plans at new mines
w/selenium potential
Nutrients
•Chesapeake Bay TMDL
Development Underway
•Greenbrier River Algae
Assessment Completed
•Lake Water Quality TP
and Chlorophyll criteria
approval pending at EPA
•Stream criteria still to
come
TMDLs
In Public Notice:
Coming Next:
• Dunkard
• Cheat – 1/10
• Upper Ohio South • Lower Elk & Lower
Kanawha tribs 1/11
• Camp Ck/12Pole • Mid Ohio North &
South 1/12
• Youghiogheny
• Mon/Little Kanawha
Tribs monitoring
7/09
All available at www.wvdep.org/tmdl
The Marcellus Play/TDS/Monongahela River
Guidance comment imminent
Antidegradation
• Tier 3 process awaiting EPA approval
• Guidance for implementation under
construction
Public land
Private land
Wilderness
Area (see slide 42)
Tier 3 stream segments
on public land
Back to stream list
Bear Run
And Finally...
• Expect a Water Quality Standards
open meeting in late May/Early June
– Nutrients
– Mercury
– Total Dissolved Solids
– Iron
– Others?
Thank you for your data
and interest!