Region 1: EPA New England

Reports, Guidances, Selected Regional Projects, and Fact Sheets

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Reports

• Stormwater TMDL Implementation Support Manual (PDF) (77 pp, 3.2MB)
• Pilot TMDL Applications using the Impervious Cover Method (PDF) (81 pp, 4.1MB)
  (For dial-up users the report is also listed below in sections.)
  • Cover and Table of Contents (PDF) (6 pp, 623K)
  • Section 1 (PDF) (3 pp, 35K)
  • Section 2 (PDF) (4 pp, 195K)
  • Section 3 (PDF) (4 pp, 42K)
  • Section 4 - 4.1 (PDF) (10 pp, 727K)
  • Section 4.2 (PDF) (6 pp, 532K)
  • Section 4.3 (PDF) (6 pp, 425K)
  • Section 4.4 (PDF) (6 pp, 410K)
  • Section 4.5 (PDF) (8 pp, 695K)
  • Section 4.6 (PDF) (6 pp, 378K)
  • Section 4.7 (PDF) (6 pp, 369K)
  • Section 4.8 (PDF) (2 pp, 21K)
  • Section 5 (PDF) (5 pp, 97K)
  • Section 6 (PDF) (2 pp, 20K)

Guidances

• EPA New England Guidance on Requirements for Lake and Reservoir Nutrient TMDLs
• EPA New England Guidelines to States for Characterizing TMDL Allocations for NPS/Stormwater (PDF) (4 pp, 60K)
• EPA National TMDL Guidance

Selected Regional Projects

• New England Mercury Strategy and Loading Study (PDF) (6 pp, 45K)
• New England SPARROW Nutrient,Model Introduction (PDF) (1 pg, 25 KB)
  • Downloading Read-Me File (PDF) (1 pg, 15K)
  • Overview of New England SPARROW Nutrient Model (PDF) (2 pp, 21 KB)
    (* The four files below have been compressed. If you are not using Windows XP, you will need a compression utility such as WinZip to uncompress these files.)
  • Nitrogen Results) (ArcGIS export format, 36.5MB)
  • Phosphorous Results (ArcGIS export format, 36MB)
  • Input Data (ArcGIS export format, 40.9MB)
  • Metadata File Including Map Projection Information (MS Word, 17 KB)
• Development of Nitrogen Loading-Response Models for Northeast U.S. Estuaries (PDF) (1 pg, 275 KB)

Fact Sheets

• EPA New England Total Maximum Daily Load ( TMDL) and Smart Growth Fact Sheet (PDF) (5 pp, 45 KB)
• EPA New England TMDL Program Fact Sheet (PDF) (2 pp, 80K)
• EPA National TMDL Program Fact Sheet (PDF) (4 pp, 50K)

Stormwater, LID and TMDL fact sheets available!

Four fact sheets containing hyperlinks to related websites and resource documents in addition to New England case studies are now available

• Incorporating LID into Municipal Stormwater Programs (PDF) (11 pp, 317K)
• Managing Stormwater with LID Practices: Addressing Barriers to LID (PDF) (7 pp, 439K)
• Funding Stormwater Programs (PDF) (6 pp, 309K)
• Restoring Impaired Waters: TMDLs and Municipal Stormwater Programs (PDF) (5 pp, 288K)