[env-trinity] Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Newsletter
Gfredlee at aol.com
Gfredlee at aol.com
Mon Apr 25 08:52:05 PDT 2005
Because of your potential interest in stormwater runoff water quality
issues, I wish to bring to your attention that Dr. Anne Jones‑Lee and I have
developed a Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Science/Engineering Newsletter. This
Newsletter evolves out of our work on evaluating and managing the water
quality impacts of urban, highway and rural stormwater runoff. Basically, we find
that the quality of science and engineering being used to evaluate the impacts
and management of urban area street and highway as well as rural area
stormwater runoff-associated constituents is significantly lacking and out of date.
One of the primary purposes of the Newsletter is to work toward improving
the quality of science/engineering used in managing urban, highway and rural
area stormwater runoff water quality impacts.
This Newsletter discusses these issues and recommends approaches for
addressing them. Unless more appropriate approaches are adopted for regulating urban
area and highway stormwater runoff potential water quality impacts, the US
public will be spending several hundred billion dollars to treat urban
stormwater runoff to meet worst-case-based water quality standards. A similar
situation exists for managing stormwater runoff from rural lands. Much of this
expenditure will not improve receiving water quality-beneficial uses. This
Newsletter discusses these issues and provides guidance for developing
technically valid, cost-effective urban and rural stormwater runoff water quality
management programs.
Attached in Adobe pdf is the Stormwater Runoff Water Quality
Science/Engineering Newsletter volume NL 7-3 devoted to unrecognized environmental
pollutants. It contains a discussion of recently recognized chemicals in drinking
waters, wastewaters and solid wastes that can be present in urban stormwater
runoff. Also attached is NL 8-3 devoted to a review of the role of aqueous
chemistry of iron in controlling the release of potential pollutants upon sediment
resuspension.
Previous issues of the Newsletter focus on potential water quality standards
compliance issues for urban area and highway stormwater runoff, as well as
changes in the regulatory approaches that need to be made to protect the
beneficial uses of receiving waters for urban area stormwater runoff without
unnecessary expenditures for constituent control. They also discuss the need to
change the approach used for monitoring water quality from a chemical
concentration to a chemical impact assessment approach.
While many of the past Newsletters focus on urban area and highway
stormwater runoff water quality management issues, with few exceptions, the issues
discussed are also applicable to rural/agricultural and industrial stormwater
runoff water quality management. Also, many of these issues apply to properly
regulating point source wastewater discharges.
This is an email-based Newsletter that is available at no cost to anyone
with an email address. It is currently being distributed periodically to about
8,500 individuals. If you do not have the Adobe Reader 6.0 on your computer
you can download it at no cost from http://www.adobe.com. Previous issues of
this Newsletter are available from our website, www.gfredlee.com, where the
link is located near the bottom of the first page. An index to past
Newsletters= contents is available at the website and below. Also available at this
website are papers and reports that provide further discussion of urban area,
highway and rural stormwater runoff water quality management issues.
Information on our website is appended below.
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receiving it, please have them send me an email note.
We welcome contributions by others on stormwater runoff water quality
management issues. If you would like to contribute an article to the Newsletter,
please let me know.
G. Fred Lee
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Surface and Groundwater Quality Evaluation and Management
and
Municipal Solid & Industrial Hazardous Waste Landfills
http://www.gfredlee.com
Dr. G. Fred Lee and Dr. Anne Jones‑Lee have prepared professional papers and
reports on the various areas in which they are active in research and
consulting including domestic water supply water quality, water and wastewater
treatment, water pollution control, and the evaluation and management of the
impacts of solid and hazardous wastes. Publications are available in the
following areas:
Landfills and Groundwater Quality Protection
Water Quality Evaluation and Management for Wastewater Discharges,
Stormwater Runoff, Ambient Waters and Pesticide Water Quality Management Issues, TMDL
Development,
Water Quality Criteria/Standards Development and Implementation
Impact of Hazardous Chemicals ‑‑ Superfund,
LEHR Superfund Site reports to DSCSOC,
Lava Cap Mine Superfund Site reports to SYRCL
Contaminated Sediment ‑‑ Aquafund, BPTCP, Sediment Quality Criteria
Domestic Water Supply Water Quality
Excessive Fertilization/Eutrophication, Nutrient Criteria
Reuse of Reclaimed Wastewaters
Watershed Based Water Quality Management Programs:
Sacramento River Watershed Program,
Delta ‑‑ CALFED Program,
Upper Newport Bay Watershed Program,
San Joaquin River Watershed DO and OP Pesticide TMDL Programs
Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Science/Engineering Newsletter Index
The Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Science/Engineering Newsletter was first
issued on June 1998. Since that time, on the average of about every two
months, a 5- to 15-page issue of the Newsletter has been made available. At
this time, over 650 pages of discussions of stormwater runoff water quality
impact evaluation and management have been presented through the Newsletter. Over
the past year, the number of individuals who receive the Newsletter has been
about 8,000.
Topic
Volume-Number
303(d) Listed Waterbodies and TMDLs.................................. 1-1,
1-2, 5-2, 6-3, 6-4
Aquatic Life
Toxicity................................................................ 1-1, 1-5, 2-1, 6-1, 6-3, 7-5, 7-6/7
Bioaccumulation...............................................................
....... 4-2, 6-4, 7-4, 7-5, 7-8
Biocriteria...................................................................
............. 1-4, 7-6/7
BMP Ratcheting
Down............................................................ 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 5-3, 7-6/7
BMPs (Management Practices)................................................
3-2, 6-2, 6-6, 7-6/7
BMPs for New Development...................................................
3-3, 7-6/7
California Toxics
Rule.............................................................. 1-3
Constituents of
Concern........................................................... 1-2, 1-5, 7-3, 7-6/7
Criteria/Standards............................................................
........ 1-2, 1-3, 1-5, 1-6/7, 2-2, 5-4, 6-8.
(cont)........................................................................
......... 6-9, 7-2, 7-3, 7-5, 7-6/7
Dioxins.......................................................................
............. 1-1, 1-5, 6-4, 7-4, 7-6/7
Dust
Suppressants................................................................... 7-1, 7-5
Ecological Risk
Assessment..................................................... 2-1, 7-1
Evaluation
Monitoring.............................................................. 2-3, 6-1, 7-3
Evaluation of Water Quality Monitoring Data............................ 1-4,
6-10
Heavy
Metals.......................................................................... 1-1, 1-3, 1-5, 3-4, 6-1, 7-5, 7-6/7
National Water Quality Inventory.............................................
4-1
Nonpoint Source
Issues........................................................... 6-1, 6-2
Nutrient
Criteria....................................................................... 1-3, 5-1,
Nutrients.....................................................................
............ 1-2, 1-5, 4-3/4, 5-1, 6-1, 6-2, 7-6/7
Organochlorine
Pesticides........................................................ 4-2, 6-4
Organophosphate (OP) Pesticides...........................................
1-1, 2-1, 3-5, 3-6, 6-3, 7-6/7, 8-1/2
Overview of Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Issues.............. 3-1, 7-6/7
PAHs..........................................................................
............ 7-4, 7-6/7
PCBs..........................................................................
............ 4-2, 6-4, 7-4, 7-6/7
Pesticides....................................................................
............ 1-1, 6-3, 6-4, 7-6/7, 8-1/2
“Pollutant” vs. “Chemical Constituent”
...................................... 1-2, 7-6/7
Pollutant
Trading...................................................................... 6-5
Regulating
Copper................................................................... 3-4, 6-10, 7-5, 7-6/7
Regulatory
Requirements......................................................... 2-2, 5-5, 7-1, 7-2, 7-6/7
Sanitary
Quality....................................................................... 2-2, 7-5, 7-6/7, 7-9
Sediments
(Contaminated)....................................................... 1-1, 1-5, 2-2, 3-4, 6-4, 7-2, 7-4, 7-8, 8-3
Selection of
BMPs................................................................... 2-2, 6-2, 7-6/7
Stormwater Infiltration
BMPs................................................... 1-4, 3-3
Stormwater
Modeling.............................................................. 1-3, 7-6/7
Stormwater
Regulations........................................................... 1-5, 2-2, 5-3, 5-5, 7-27-6/7, 7-9
Stormwater Runoff as a Cause of Pollution...............................
4-1, 7-3, 7-4, 7-6/7, 7-9
Stormwater Runoff Monitoring.................................................
1-2, 1-3, 6-1, 6-10, 7-3
Stormwater Runoff Water Quality Short Course....................... 1-3, 1-5,
4-1, 4-2
Stormwater
Treatment............................................................. 1-3, 6-2, 7-6/7
Stormwater Water Quality Research........................................
1-3, 6-7
TMDLs
General...................................................................... 1-1, 1-2, 5-2, 5-5
TMDLs for Heavy
Metals........................................................ 3-4
TMDLs for Organochlorine Pesticides and PCBs..................... 4-2, 6-4
TMDLs for Organophosphate Pesticides.................................. 3-6,
6-3
TMDLs for
Pesticides.............................................................. 3-5, 6-3, 6-4
Water
Quality.......................................................................... 1-2, 3-1, 7-6/7, 7-9
Water Quality
Assessment....................................................... 1-2, 3-1, 6-10, 7-2, 7-6/7
Water Quality
Definition........................................................... 1-2
Water Quality
Monitoring........................................................ 1-4, 2-3, 6-1, 6-10, 7-4, 7-6/7, 7-9
Weight of
Evidence.................................................................. 6-9, 7-2, 7-8
G. Fred Lee, PhD, DEE
G. Fred Lee & Associates
27298 E. El Macero Dr.
El Macero, CA 95618-1005
Ph 530 753-9630, Fx 530 753-9956
Cell 916 712-7399
gfredlee at aol.com,
www.gfredlee.com
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