The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Environmental Protection have finalized the Total Maximum Daily Loads Plan for the Skippack Creek Watershed in Montgomery County.

Skippack Creek is a 15.2 mile stream that begins in Souderton Borough and flows generally southwest where it meets the Perkiomen Creek. Major tributaries in the creek’s 56-square mile basin include the West Branch of Skipppack Creek, Towamencin Creek and Zacharias Creek.

Once the water body is impaired, a TMDL must be developed to set the maximum amount of a specific pollutants that an estuary, lake or river can receive. After that load amount is calculated, specified sources of that pollutant in the watershed are required to reduce their contributions of the contaminant to specified levels. EPA developed these TMDLs to meet the requirements under a court order to resolve a civil suit.

The final TMDLs can be reviewed on the EPA Region 3 TMDL webpage .

4/22/2005