What does TMDL stand for?

Total Maximum Daily Load

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Samples in periodicals archive:

The state has adopted a plan called Total Maximum Daily Load, which requires wastewater dischargers on the Willamette River to cool the water they add to the river.

United States: $8M expected for wetlands project

Owners of RIA sites reasonably expected to result in a discharge to impaired surface waters identified by a total maximum daily load, or TMDL, would also be subject to additional requirements.

Massachusetts DEP Proposes Sweeping New Stormwater Discharge ...

[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The proposed Total Maximum Daily Load trash rule, which covers the Malibu Creek watershed area in the western Santa Monica Mountains, is set for a hearing May 1.

New runoff rules

EPA's Office of Water defended the project cuts, explaining that they provide local benefits but often come at a national cost Other EPA programs, including Total Maximum Daily Load monitoring, are better suited and more efficient at dealing with national quality issues.

U.S. EPA water infrastructure projects take hit in budget request

However, enacting the tools for implementing such controls--such as permitted discharge limits and total maximum daily loads (how much of a particular pollutant a water body can assimilate without violating state water quality standards)--fall sunder the Clean Water Act.

Water: a paradigm for protection

Water standards are used to determine a state's Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)--a provision in the Clean Water Act that mandates how polluted a water source can be and still meet cleanliness standards.

Water: at a hearing before the Water Resources and Environment ...

Erin Tobin addresses the role of Total Maximum Daily Loads for waters polluted solely by nonpoint source pollution, at issue in Pronsolino v.

Review editor's note

Under the federal Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) program, the state will set pollution limits for each stream and create reduction plans around those limits.

State agency plans to cut pollution in 5 Snohomish River watersheds