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Impaired Waters and TMDLs

Developing Effective TMDLs: An Evaluation of the TMDL Process

The report explores whether various characteristics of data availability, funding resources, guidance materials, stakeholder involvement, scale of TMDLs and implementation planning positively influence development of effective TMDLs. It was published in the Water Environment Federation's TMDL2007 conference proceedings.

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Developing Effective TMDLs: An Evaluation of the TMDL Process (PDF)(12 pp, 63 K)