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Environmental Services
Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL)
The Local Government Council partners with the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality, DEQ, and the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation, DCR, in the development of a number of Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) projects for impaired or “dirty” stream segments located in the Region 2000 area. The affected streams were identified on Virginia’s 303(D) list of impaired waters as impaired due to violations of Virginia’s water quality standards. As such DEQ and DCR, through partnership and public input by area citizens and local and other state agencies, has lead the development of studies and plans to restore and maintain water quality in these identified steams. These plans are called Total Maximum Daily Loads or TMDLs. A TMDL represents the total pollutant amount that a waterbody can hold and still meet water quality standards. The first plan, or TMDL, establishes the pollutant load standard that must be meet for a water body. The second phase of the TMDL study is the development of a TMDL Implementation Plan, or management activities that can be undertaken by business, landowners, and local governments to eliminate the pollutant load to a water body.
To learn more about each of the local TMDL projects, how local citizens can provide input and comment on these important water protection initiatives, and to learn what is happening in Region 2000, click here.