Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) have been used extensively by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state environmental agencies in implementing the Clean Water Act by establishing maximum pollution limits for industrial wastewater dischargers. EPA has a history of developing and approving TMDLs containing non-daily load expressions. NACWA has argued to request state water quality authorities and the EPA to address TMDL issues on their receiving waters in a non-daily format with few exceptions.

For more information on NACWA’s legal activities and litigation related toTotal Maximum Daily Load Issues, please visit the Legal Resources  page.

 

 

2016

06/20	Clean Water Current		NACWA Comments Highlight Concerns with “Technical” Report on Flow Alteration
04/25	Clean Water Current		TMDL Symposium Considers Strategies for Action

 

 

2014

11/21

Clean Water Current

Oral Argument Held in Chesapeake Bay TMDL Appeal

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You May Also Be Interested In:

• NACWA Enforcement White Paper (December 2009)
• Municipal Wet Weather Consent Decree Handbook Supplement (February 2009)
• NACWA White Paper on Suitability Issues for Total Maximum Daily Loads 
• Evaluating TMDLs….Protecting the Rights of POTWs  (May 2000)