Criteria Development Guidance: Rivers and Streams
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)
- Document: Nutrient Criteria Technical Guidance Manual: Rivers and Streams
- 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