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| Title | Quality Assurance Project Plan: Tributaries to Totten, Eld, and Little Skookum Inlets Temperature and Fecal Coliform Bacteria Total Maximum Daily Load Study | |||
| Month-Year Published | May 2004 | |||
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| Short Description |
This is the Quality Assurance Project Plan for the study, Tributaries to Totten, Eld, and Little Skookum Inlets Temperature and Fecal Coliform Bacteria Total Maximum Daily Load Study (Also see abstract below) | |||
| Publication Number | 04-03-106 | |||
| Author(s) | Ahmed, A. | |||
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| Number of pages | 30 pp. | |||
| Keywords | bacteria, creek, fecal coliform, model, monitoring, plan, quality assurance, quality assurance project plan, study, temperature, Thurston, Total Maximum Daily Load, tribe, water | |||
| Subject Waterbodies |
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| Related Publications | Title | Relationship | ||
| Tributaries to Totten, Eld, and Little Skookum Inlets - Fecal Coliform Bacteria and Temperature Total Maximum Daily Load: Water Quality Improvement Report | similar topic | |||
| Abstract | Long Description |
Tributaries to the Totten, Eld, and Little Skookum Inlets are on Washington State′s 1998 303(d) list for fecal coliform bacteria. Segments of Kennedy and Skookum Creeks are proposed to be included in the 2002 303(d) list for temperature. Therefore, in accordance with the federal Clean Water Act, Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for fecal coliform bacteria and temperature must be established to bring these tributaries into compliance with water quality standards. The inlets themselves are not on the 303(d) list. This plan describes the approach to be used to develop TMDLs for the listed tributaries. For compliance with fecal coliform bacteria standards, a simple roll-back method will be used to establish target reductions for each tributary. Available fecal coliform data from the National Monitoring Program (NMP), Thurston and Mason Counties, and the Squaxin Island Tribe are deemed sufficient for using the roll-back method; therefore, no new data will be collected. Temperature listings for Skookum and Kennedy Creeks are based on data collected by the Squaxin Island Tribe. Further data collection for Skookum Creek will consist of continuous temperature monitoring, streamflow monitoring, riparian surveys, and an extensive groundwater study in the summer of 2004. The Washington State Department of Ecology (Ecology) will work cooperatively with the Squaxin Island Tribe to coordinate field work. Water temperature in Skookum Creek will be characterized and load allocations established for heat sources to meet water quality standards. A QUAL2Kw model will be used for this purpose. Most of Kennedy Creek is already covered by an existing TMDL. For the remaining segment, approximately the lower one mile, no TMDL is deemed necessary at this time. A final report will be available in June 2005. |
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