Washington State Department of Ecology

Publication Summary

Title	Total Maximum Daily Load Development Guidelines
Month-Year Published	November 1996
Online Availability	View this publication in Acrobat PDF format 294 kilobytes, requires version 4.0 or later of Adobe Acrobat Reader Software get Acrobat Reader
Short Description	A set of seven guidelines were prepared to ensure consistency in developing Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) reports. The guidelines apply to TMDL reports developed by the Environmental Investigations and Laboratory Services Program at the Washington State Department of Ecology. (Also see abstract below)
Publication Number	97-315
Author(s)	TMDL Workgroup
Print Availability	Request from the program.
Number of pages	30 pp.
Keywords	application, chemical, chemical oxygen demand, dissolved oxygen, effluent, environmental, flow, guidance, guidelines, investigation, laboratory, metals, model, NPDES, point source, stream, TMDL, Total Maximum Daily Load, water, water quality
Abstract	Long Description
	A set of seven guidelines were prepared to ensure consistency in developing Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) reports. The guidelines address the following issues: Application of dissolved oxygen standards (spatial and temporal variability) Definition of the critical low streamflow Point source effluent flow (for input to steady-state TMDL models) Translation of model results to permit limits for NPDES dischargers Establishing biochemical oxygen demand (BOD) for steady-state TMDL models Application of metals water quality standards Miscellaneous guidelines The guidelines apply to TMDL reports developed by the Environmental Investigations and Laboratory Services Program at the Washington State Department of Ecology.

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