Publication Summary

This is the quality assurance project plan for the South Fork Palouse River Temperature Total Maximum Daily Load Study.

Section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act requires the state of Washington to prepare a list of all surface waters in the state for which beneficial uses of the water are impaired by pollutants. Waterbodies placed on the 303(d) list require the preparation of a Total Maximum Daily Load study to identify and quantify sources of the impairments and to recommend implementation strategies for reducing point and nonpoint source loads.

The South Fork Palouse River is listed on the 303(d) list of impaired waterbodies for high instream temperatures. This Quality Assurance Project Plan describes the technical study that will evaluate instream temperatures in those impaired waterbodies and build on previous data collection efforts conducted by a variety of governmental and private organizations. The study will be conducted by the Washington State Department of Ecology Environmental Assessment Program. The South Fork Palouse River will be intensively monitored during 2006; the other temperature listings in the Palouse River Watershed Resource Inventory Area 34 will be addressed in a subsequent study in 2007.

Link to EIM data for User Study ID JICA0000