The Department of Environmental Protection is inviting comments on the water quality assessment methods it will use to do stream evaluations for the 2018 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report required by the federal Clean Water Act.  (formal notice)

The assessment methodology is a compilation of multiple methods used to assess waters that may appear in the Integrated Report. For the 2018 Integrated Report, the assessment methodology is being updated to reflect three newly developed methodologies.

The Department will accept comments on the new methods including: Semi-Wadeable Large River Macro-invertebrate Assessment Method; Continuous Physico-chemical Assessment Method; and Eutrophication Cause Determination Method. The Department will consider all public comments regarding the data analyses protocols contained in these three methodologies.

Copies of the assessment methodologies will be available on DEP’s eComment webpage. 

Comments are due by July 30.  Read the notice in the June 16 PA Bulletin for instructions on submitting comments.

Click Here to review a copy of the 2016 Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report.

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