HR: 13:30h
AN: NB13E-01 INVITED     [Abstracts]
TI: A New Vision for Partnerships between Water Quality Practitioners and the Research Community: Nutrient Criteria Development
AU: * Bauer, C R
EM: bauer.candicer@epa.gov
AF: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604 United States
AU: Pfeifer, D
EM: pfeifer.david@epa.gov
AF: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5, 77 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, IL 60604 United States
AU: Stevenson, R J
EM: rjstev@msu.edu
AF: Michigan State University, 142 Natural Science Building, East Lansing, MI 48824 United States
AU: Tillman, D
EM: tillman.danielle@epa.gov
AF: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Office of Research and Development, 1200 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20460 United States
AB: State water quality assessments repeatedly cite nutrients as one of the top three causes of use impairment in surface waters. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published recommendations for nutrient water quality criteria in 2001 to assist States and others in addressing this source of surface water impairment. These criteria provide numeric targets for use in interpreting monitoring data, establishing pollution controls, and assessing progress. USEPA intended these published criteria for lakes and streams to serve as a starting point for States and others to develop more refined nutrient criteria to protect designated uses. States and others are now utilizing ongoing research to determine either: (1) appropriate reference conditions that represent a level of water quality which has no use impairments due to nutrient over-enrichment, or (2) quantitative relationships among nutrients and parameters that are more directly related to or descriptive of the particular designated use. Our goal is to provide a critical linkage between researchers and policy-makers such that: (1) researchers understand how scientific studies can be translated into water quality criteria, and (2) regulatory agency staff responsible for implementing the Clean Water Act have access to the latest nutrient-related science.
DE: 1871 Surface water quality
DE: 6300 POLICY SCIENCES
DE: 6600 PUBLIC ISSUES
SC: North American Benthological Society [NB]
MN: 2005 Joint Assembly