TMDL standard News
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EPA Approves Maryland’s New Limits on Trash in Lower Patapsco Waterways, Including Baltimore Harbor
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the state of Maryland today announced a new set of pollution limits for trash for portions of the Patapsco River. These limits, also known as a Total Maximum Daily Load or TMDL, require the control of trash entering the tidal shoreline of the Middle Branch and Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River, including Baltimore Harbor and the upstream ...
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EPA, D.C., Maryland set trash limits for Anacostia watershed (DC)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the District of Columbia, and the state of Maryland today announced a new Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) or “pollution diet” for trash in the Anacostia River, making the Anacostia the first interstate river in the nation with such a Clean Water Act trash limit. “Trash not only creates a nuisance and an eyesore, but also interferes with ...
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Pennsylvania Legislature Releases Report on the Economic and Environmental Benefits of a Competitively-Bid Nutrient Reduction Program
Bion Environmental Technologies, Inc. (OTC QB/BB: BNET), an environmental services company that provides cleantech and waste treatment solutions to the livestock industry, announced today that on January 22 the Pennsylvania Legislative Budget and Finance Committee published a study detailing the economic and environmental benefits that would result from the implementation of a competitively bid, ...
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Pollutant reduction plans announced for Hinkson, Jordan, Pearson and Wilson Creeks in Missouri (MO)
EPA is establishing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) or pollutant reduction plans for Hinkson Creek in Boone County and Jordan, Pearson and Wilson creeks in Christian and Greene County, Mo. The TMDLs call for significant pollutant reductions to improve the streams’ water quality. “The plans were shaped by extensive public involvement and local and state official input, which ...
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