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Criteria Development Guidance
Lakes & Reservoirs
The Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs is one in a series of waterbody-specific documents that support the National Nutrient Strategy. The intent of these documents is to provide States and Tribes with methods to assess waterbody nutrient impairment and develop ecoregion-specific nutrient criteria.
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- Fact Sheet
- Federal Register Notice (May 23, 2000)
- Summary of Peer and Public Comments (June 23, 2000)
Guidance Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs
Download entire document (PDF) (232 pages, 7MB)
- Cover Page, Table of Contents (PDF) (744K)
- Chapter 1: Introduction (PDF) (710K)
- Chapter 2: Basis for Lake and Reservoir Nutrient Criteria (PDF) (316K)
- Chapter 3: Preliminary Steps for Criteria Development (PDF) (96K)
- Chapter 4: Establishing an Appropriate Database (PDF) (101K)
- Chapter 5: Candidate Variables for Criteria Setting (PDF) (334K)
- Chapter 6: Identifying and Characterizing Reference Conditions (PDF) (637K)
- Chapter 7: Nutrient Criteria Development (PDF) (775K)
- Chapter 8: Using Nutrient Criteria to Protect Water Quality (PDF) (468K)
- Chapter 9: Modeling Tools (PDF) (920K)
- References (PDF) (70K)
- Appendix A: Nutrient Region Descriptions (PDF) (37K)
- Appendix B: Case Studies (PDF) (2MB)