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Designating Attainable Uses for the Nation's Waters
Abstracts
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- Kansas Steps Back from the Clean Water Act: The National Implications of Substitute for Senate Bill 20 (PDF) (84 K) by Charles M. Benjamin, Ph.D., J.D.
- Upper Blackwater River, WV Case Study (PDF) (41 K) by Richard Herd, Mindy Armstead, pHD, David Yaussy
- Using Watershed Ecological Risk Assessment to Improve Use Attainability Analyses and the Use Designation Process (PDF) (59 K) by Jerome Diamond and Victor Serveiss
- Was a TMDL for copper, ambient toxicity, temperature and sediment toxicity in Patrick Bayou necessary and what did we learn? (PDF) (65 K) by Philip B. Dorn
- An Environmentalist Perspective on Use Attainability Analysis and the Lower Des Plaines River UAA (PDF) (36 K) by Albert Ettinger
- Recreational Use Designations in Colorado (PDF) (65 K) by Paul Frohardt
- Evaluating Water Quality Criteria for Designated Uses in Ephemeral and Effluent-dependent Watercourses of the Arid West (PDF) (46 K) by Robert W. Gensemer, Gail Dethloff,Mark Gerath, David DeForest, Kevin Brix, Robert Santore
- Everglades Phosphorus Criterion and Ecosystem Restoration (PDF) (46 K) by Bill Green
- Why the Use Designation Process is not working in California (PDF) (63 K) by Thomas R. Grovhoug
- Understanding Natural Patterns in Water Quality When Setting Water Quality Standards (PDF) (51 K) by GeorgeIce
- "Superfund Sediment, Combined Sewer Overflow Discharges, Low Head Dams, and Urbanization Confound Existing Water Use Designations—A Kokomo, Indiana Case Study" (PDF) (68 K) by Barton G. Jones, P.E.
- Creating Attainable Water Quality Criteria; Evaluation of Menomonee River, Milwaukee, Wisconsin (PDF,56K) by Nancy Schultz, Eric Waldmer, Mary Recktenwalt, BrandonKoltz
- What Are We Trying to Protect?: Beneficial Use Changes in Agricultural Watersheds (PDF) (59 K)by William Kreutzberger and Thomas Dupuis
- New York City's Urban Watershed Use and Standards Attainment Project (PDF) (62 K) by Warren Kurtz,P.E. and John P. St. John, P.E.
- "The Lower San Gabriel River Watershed: A Case Study Illustrating the Need for Subcategories of the Ful lContact Recreation Use" (PDF) (80 K) by Heather Lamberson
- Evaluating Use Attainment in an Effluent-dependent Water (PDF) (63 K) by Richard Meyerhoff,Ed Curley, Mark Murphy, Karen Sierra
- No Good Deed Goes Unpunished: Using UAA's to regulate effluent-dependent streams (PDF) (83 K) by TimothyF. Moore
- Theater of the Urban Wet Weather Water Quality Standards Impasse (PDF) (36 K) by Adrienne Nemura
- "Designated Uses for Ephemeral Streams" (PDF) (63 K) by Bill Payne
- Reconciling Policy with Reality: Applying a Commonsense Interpretation of "Existing Use" for Recreation in a CSO-Impacted Urban Watershed (PDF) (62 K) by Jodi Perras, Rosemary G. Spalding, J.D., Robert J. Masbaum, P.E., Scott T. Girman, P.E. Indiana Code concerning the environmental law discussed in the abstract (PDF)
- Oklahoma Use Attainability Analysis Conceptsand Methods (PDF) (29 K) by Chuck Potts of the Oklahoma Water Resources Board
- Georgia's Failure to Protect Existingand Designated Uses – A Case Study (PDF) (61 K) by David W. Sligh
- Development of Targets, Indicators, and a Management Model for Urban Streams: A Work in Progress (PDF,58K) by Lester A. Stumpe
- Unattainable Designations (PDF) (42 K) by Dave Tompkins and Jackie McCall
- The Role of Use Attainability Analysis in Defining Appropriate Water Quality Standards: Three Cases BenthicImpairments (PDF) (56 K) by Jane Walker and Tamim Younos
- Does a Use Attainability Analysis Require Least-Cost Attainment? (PDF) (35 K) by Robert Wieland
- Balancing Bathers and Bacteria: Managing recreation, wet-weather flows and the legacy of a combined sewer system in the Nation's Capitol (PDF) (74 K) by JamesWoodworth
- Protecting What Doesn't Exist: West Virginia's Statewide Public Water Supply Use Designation (PDF) (54 K) by Richard Herd, Mindy Armstead, David Yaussy
- The Importance of Tiered Aquatic Life Uses and Adequate Monitoring and Assessment to the Routine Performance of Use Attainability Analyses (PDF) (59 K) by Chris O. Yoderand Chris Skalski
- Data Needs to Determine Designated Use for Benthic Impairment: A Virginia Case Study (PDF) (57 K) by Tamim Younos