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Criteria Development Guidance
Rivers and Streams
Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Rivers and Streams
EPA-822-B-00-002; July 2000
The Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Rivers and Streams is one in a series of waterbody-specific documents that support the National Nutrient Strategy. The intent of this document is to provide States and Tribes with methods to assess waterbody nutrient impairment and develop ecoregion-specific nutrient criteria. The Rivers and Streams document provides background information on classifying rivers and streams, selecting criteria variables, designing monitoring programs, building a database analyzing nutrient and algal data, deriving regional criteria, and implementing management practices.
Federal Register Notice (July 27, 2000)
Complete document: Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Rivers and Streams (PDF) (253 pages, 1.7 MB; About PDF).
- Chapter 1—Introduction
- Chapter 2—Stream System Classification
- Chapter 3—Select Variables
- Chapter 4—Sampling Design for New Monitoring Programs
- Chapter 5—Building a Database of Nutrients and Algae-Related Water Quality Information
- Chapter 6—Analyze Data
- Chapter 7—Nutrient and Algal Criteria Development
- Chapter 8—Management Programs
- Chapter 9—Monitoring and Reassessment of Nutrient Criteria Ranges
- References
- Appendices
- Nutrient Criteria Case Studies
- Methods of Analysis for Water Quality Variables
- Statistical Tests and Modeling Tools
- Acronym List and Glossary