Online Training - EPA Webcast on TMDL Implementation, Nutrient Trading February 21

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Watershed Academy will sponsor a webcast on Implementing TMDLs and Trading through the National Estuary Program February 21 starting at 1:00.

The program features Darrell Brown, Chief of EPA´s Coastal Management Branch; Mark Tedesco, Director of EPA´s Long Island Sound Office; and Gary Johnson, Senior Environmental Engineer for the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection.

The webcast will provide an overview of the National Estuary Program and highlight how the Long Island Sound NEP is successfully using its Comprehensive Conservation and Management Plan as the basis for developing a total maximum daily load.

The webcast will also discuss the innovative trading program used in Long Island Sound that is reducing nitrogen loads faster and more cost effectively.

The next webcast will be on March 28 and will cover Key EPA Internet Tools for Watershed Management.

For more information or to access archived audio versions of past webcasts, visit the Watershed Webcast webpage.


2/16/2007

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