Chapter 10
USEPA Total Maximum Daily Load Report Archive and Report Search Tool
Publication: Total Maximum Daily Load Development and Implementation: Models, Methods, and Resources
Abstract
The USEPA Assessment and Total Maximum Daily Load Tracking and Implementation System repository is an independent database repository for all total maximum daily load (TMDL) documents. This chapter provides the information related to the use of the TMDL Report Selection tool for a specific TMDL model, as well as practical examples of searches that were performed and the results obtained. The examples also provide statistics from the TMDL report repository for the period 1975 to 2017 that include the number of reports for the following purposes: reports published in each of the 50 states and reports published during each of the years 1975 through 2017. The relationships between impairments, watershed models, receiving water models, and other terms associated with TMDL models are displayed in two interactive visualizations-the chord graph and the matrix graph. The TMDL Report Selection tool is a state-of-the-art tool that promotes greater use of information describing the state of the practice.
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Total Maximum Daily Load Development and Implementation: Models, Methods, and Resources
Pages: 307 - 317
Editors: Harry X. Zhang, Ph.D., Nigel W.T. Quinn, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3333-4763, Deva K. Borah, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2107-9390, and G. Padmanabhan, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3209-1379
ISBN (Print): 978-0-7844-1594-8
ISBN (Online): 978-0-7844-8382-4
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© 2022 American Society of Civil Engineers.
History
Published online: Feb 24, 2022
ASCE Technical Topics:
- Business management
- Clean Water Act
- Computing in civil engineering
- Databases
- Decision making
- Decision support systems
- Detection methods
- Engineering fundamentals
- Information Technology (IT)
- Mathematical functions
- Mathematics
- Matrix (mathematics)
- Methodology (by type)
- Practice and Profession
- River engineering
- River systems
- Statistics
- Tracking
- Water and water resources
- Water management
- Water policy
- Watersheds
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