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Revision as of 00:48, 16 September 2019
Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) are EPA approved amounts of pollutant loading that can occur and have a water body meet water quality standards. This page is collection of links and resources to better understand, and meet, TMDL requirements.
Contents
TMDL guidance
- Summary of TMDL requirements in stormwater permits
- Forms, guidance, and resources for completing the TMDL annual report form
- Chloride
- Guidance for meeting bacteria TMDL MS4 permit requirements
- Guidance for meeting dissolved oxygen or oxygen demand TMDL MS4 permit requirements
- Guidance for meeting temperature TMDL MS4 permit requirements
- nitrogen
TMDL toolkit for MS4 permit compliance
Access a quick guide for using models to meet MS4 TMDL requirements
- Overview of models used to meet MS4 TMDL permit requirements
- Recommendations and guidance for utilizing P8 to meet TMDL permit requirements
- Recommendations and guidance for utilizing WINSLAMM to meet TMDL permit requirements
- Recommendations and guidance for utilizing the MIDS calculator to meet TMDL permit requirements
- Recommendations and guidance for utilizing the MPCA Simple Estimator to meet TMDL permit requirements
- Recommendations and guidance for utilizing monitoring to meet TMDL permit requirements
- Quick guides for using models to meet MS4 TMDL permit requirements
- Case studies for monitoring to meet TMDL permit requirements
TMDL guidance and general information
- Overview of TMDLs
- Addressing TMDL Requirements in MS4 General Permit Applications and Stormwater Pollution Prevention Program Documents
- List of approved TMDLs with MS4 Wasteload Allocations
- MPCA guidance for setting wasteload allocations for regulated stormwater
- Technical guidance used by MPCA to develop guidelines for setting TMDL WLAs for regulated stormwater
- Case studies for regulated stormwater issues
- Guidance on what discharges should be included in the TMDL wasteload allocation for MS4 stormwater
- Fact sheet on what discharges should be included in the TMDL wasteload allocation for MS4 stormwater
- Guidance for addressing large watershed TMDL studies
- Guidance for developing TMDL implementation plans for MS4 stormwater
- Fact sheet for developing TMDL implementation plans for permitted MS4 stormwater
- File:Guidance on What Discharges Should be Included in the TMDL Wasteload Allocation for MS4 Stormwater.docx - August 2010
- Construction activity by county
Information received from MS4 permittees
Links and other resources
- Links for TMDLs - we should get rid of this page
- Visit the MPCA TMDL Project page for information on specific projects across the state
- Total Suspended Solids (TSS)
- Phosphorus
- Bacteria in stormwater
- Chloride in stormwater
- Protection and restoration of receiving waters