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Meetings

Third Conference on Watershed Management to Meet Water Quality Standards and Emerging Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) Exit EPA Disclaimer
Sponsored by American Society of Agricultural Engineers

March 5-10, 2005
Sheraton, Atlanta
Atlanta, GA

TMDL 2005

June 26-29, 2005
Hyatt Regency Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA USA

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ABSTRACT SUBMITTAL DEADLINE: JULY 26, 2004

The Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) requirements of the Clean Water Act play a pivotal role in how and if the United States meets its clean water goals. Recognizing its importance and the continually evolving nature of the TMDL program, WEF, in cooperation with the Pennsylvania Water Environment Association, is sponsoring TMDL 2005. Supporting organizations include the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Agencies, and the Water Environment Research Foundation.


Training

Watersheds 103: TMDL Training for Practitioners

EPA's Watershed Academy has developed a one-day TMDL training course called Watersheds 103: TMDL Training for Practitioners. This one-day course reviews the programmatic and technical components for developing TMDLs under section 303(d) of the Clean Water Act. The training course is intended for those who will actually be developing TMDLs, including technical water resources staff and watershed managers from states, tribes and territories; local governments; EPA regional and headquarters staff; and other interested watershed practitioners. The training course provides critical information on how the technical basis for a TMDL can be developed. The TMDL information is presented through lectures and relevant case study examples tailored to regional needs.

We hope to have several offerings of Watersheds 103 in FY 2003--please check this page periodically for offerings.

Check the Watershed Academy course schedule for future offerings of the TMDL training course as well as other watershed-related training courses.

BASINS and Other Training Sponsored by OST

EPA's Office of Science and Technology sponsors a week-long course on using Better Assessment Science Integrating point and Nonpoint Sources (BASINS) which is a software tool to perform integrated water quality and watershed analyses. The course covers an introduction to the basic geographic information (GIS) operations, BASINS environmental data layers, nonpoint source modeling, and in-stream water quality assessments. The course includes extensive hands-on computer applications.

Persons interested in watershed management, development of total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), coastal zone management, nonpoint source programs, water quality modeling, National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NDPES) permitting, and other related programs are urged to attend. Participants should have a background in water quality modeling, a basic understanding of GIS applications, and familiarity with the Windows environment. Familiarity with ArcView (ver. 3) basic operations is a plus.

OST is also sponsoring several other training courses on the use of various models including: HSPF, CORMIX, etc. See the BASINS website for more details.

Listservers

Listservers

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