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WQBELs are based on ambient water quality standards. [22] Permit components NPDES permit components. All NPDES permits must contain the following five components: Cover page – indicates authorization for discharging and its locations; Effluent limits – limits used to control discharges through technology-based or water quality-based standards
Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...
Coverage of the Spavinaw Water Project by the Tulsa World which was owned by Eugene Lorton Coverage of the Spavinaw Water Project by the Tulsa World. The Spavinaw Water Project was established to provide fresh water for Tulsa, Oklahoma from a site on Spavinaw Creek near the town of Spavinaw in Mayes County, Oklahoma. Planning and financing ...
It is responsible for protecting human health and for safeguarding the natural environment: air, water, and land. DEQ is chiefly responsible for the environmental policy of Oklahoma. It is governed by a thirteen member Environmental Quality Board appointed by the Governor, which in turn appoints an Executive Director to administer the Department.
The 1972 act authorized continued use of the water quality-based approach, but in coordination with the technology-based standards. After application of technology-based standards to a permit, if water quality is still impaired for the particular water body, then the permit agency may add water quality-based limitations to that permit. The ...
But in 2018, the state Department of Environmental Quality changed a single word in the permit that eliminated the sunset clause. The Umstead Coalition sued the agency, and the case is now being ...
In Oklahoma, streamwater is defined to include “water in ponds, lakes, reservoirs, and playa lakes” [2] (or dry lakes). Streamwater is considered to be publicly owned; the Oklahoma Water Resources board is responsible for appropriation for all areas of the State of Oklahoma except the Grand River basin, where the Grand River Dam Authority (GRDA) has responsibility for allocation on a use ...
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