TMDLs
(Water Quality Improvement Projects)
TMDL = Total Maximum Daily Load
The TMDL program focuses on improving the water quality in a watershed when the water quality in portions of the watershed do not meet State standards.
The TMDL program involves all of the stakeholders in a watershed working together to improve water quality.
The following TMDLs have been proposed or approved for the South Fork of the Palouse River:
- Toxics (approved)
- Bacteria (proposed)
- Temperature (proposed)
- Dissolved Oxygen / pH / Nutrients (proposed)
WSU is meeting all of its requirements in the Toxics TMDL.
A TMDL component will not be added to WSU's stormwater permit until the permit is revised in 2012.
Department of Ecology TMDL page