The 1972 Federal Clean Water Act contains a series of requirements for state environmental agencies to protect and restore the quality and health of U.S. waters with the goal of achieving fishable and ...
Water quality assessment is a continuous process. The finding of an impaired waterbody during assessment triggers a sequence of events that may include listing of the water, development of a Total ...
The Minnesota Pollution Control Agency and local partners released a set of two water quality reports on the Pine River Watershed in north-central Minnesota and is seeking comments from the public on ...
Boyer Slough is a small subbasin in the Lake Pend Oreille watershed in Bonner County. DEQ monitoring and subsequent assessments identified total phosphorus and ammonia as the primary pollutants of ...
Recent reports from the Minnesota Pollution Control Agency show while other surface waters are in fair or good condition, some area lakes and streams in the Mississippi River-Sartell Watershed have ...
This chapter addresses the planning step ( Figure 1-1) that occurs once a waterbody is formally listed as impaired. The main activity required during the planning step is an assessment of the relative ...