Criteria Development Guidance: Lakes and 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.
- Federal Register Notice (May 23, 2000)
- Fact Sheet (April 2000)
- Document: Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Lakes and Reservoirs
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Chapter 2: Basis for Lake and Reservoir Nutrient Criteria
- Chapter 3: Preliminary Steps for Criteria Development
- Chapter 4: Establishing an Appropriate Database
- Chapter 5: Candidate Variables for Criteria Setting
- Chapter 6: Identifying and Characterizing Reference Conditions
- Chapter 7: Nutrient Criteria Development
- Chapter 8: Using Nutrient Criteria to Protect Water Quality
- Chapter 9: Modeling Tools
- References
- Appendices