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NPDES CSO Guidance Documents

List of Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) guidance documents.

  • Combined Sewer Overflows Guidance for Nine Minimum Controls (May 1995) (pdf) (3.69 MB, 832-B-95-003)
  • Combined Sewer Overflows Guidance for Long-Term Control Plan (September 1995) (pdf) (13.51 MB, 832-B-95-002)
  • Guidance: Coordinating Combined Sewer Overflow (CSO) Long-Term Planning with Water Quality Standards Review (July 31, 2001) (pdf) (485.75 KB, 833-R-01-002)
  • Combined Sewer Overflows Guidance For Monitoring and Modeling (January 1999) (pdf) (3.76 MB)
  • Combined Sewer Overflows Guidance For Permit Writers (September 1995) (pdf) (25.75 MB, 832-B-95-008)
  • CSO Post Construction Compliance Monitoring Guidance  (May 2012) (pdf) (10.05 MB)
  • Combined Sewer Overflows Guidance for Financial Capability Assessment and Schedule Development (February 1997) (pdf) (2.32 MB)
  • Combined Sewer Overflows: Guidance for Funding Options (August 1995) (pdf) (2.67 MB)
  • Combined Sewer Overflows Guidance for Screening and Ranking (August 1995) (pdf) (1.35 MB, August 1995)
  • A Screening Assessment of the Potential Impacts of Change on Combined Sewer Overflow Mitigation in the Great Lakes and New England Regions (February 2008) (pdf) (338.59 KB, 600-R-07-033)
  • The Long-Term Control Plan-EZ (LTCP-EZ) Template: A Planning Tool for CSO Control in Small Communities (pdf) (1.97 MB)
  • Green LTCP-EZ User Guide (pdf) (2.62 MB, 833-R-09-001)

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Last updated on March 25, 2025
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