LOUISIANA DEPARTMENT OF ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY | Secretary Aurelia S. Giacometto
A DEPARTMENT OF THE STATE OF LOUISIANA
Statistical analysis tool used evaluate pollutants and determine TMDLs. Primarily used for conservative parameters.
Initiated under the Clean Water Act of 1972 requires that individual states are responsible for cleaning up polluted waterways and are required to meet state water quality standards; Each state can take action to eventually decrease hypoxic zones in the nation, such as compliance with the Clean Water Act’s Total Maximum Daily Load program; Major focus on agricultural runoff
The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) collects information needed to understand the Nation's water resources, and provides access to water data, publications, and maps, as well as to recent water projects and events.
Copies can be found in EDMS (see URL in the Website Column) or on the LDEQ Water permits Website; http://www.deq.louisiana.gov/portal/DIVISIONS/WaterPermits/LPDESPermits.... - Water discharge permits are required for discharge of pollutants to waters of the state Permits are renewed on a 5 year cycle.
Toolkit for the Anacostia Watershed Outreach and Education Project supports the EPA Urban Waters Outreach program.
Program for ecosystem restoration involving placement of material dredged from Corps maintained navigation channels in open water or degraded marsh.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ (USACE) Engineer Research and Development Center (ERDC) helps solve our Nation’s most challenging problems in civil and military engineering, geospatial sciences, water resources, and environmental sciences for the Army, Department of Defense, civilian agencies, and our Nation’s public good. Water Resources research areas include •Inland and Coastal Navigation Hydropower, •Flood Risk Management and Coastal Systems, •Water Supply, Emergency Management, •Environment – Restoration, Regulation, Stewardship, •Water Resources Infrastructure, •System-Wide Water Resources. From the available information on the website, unable to make clear determination of usability for strategy.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers provides comprehensive planning, design, construction and engineering management support to the Army and the nation. Within the scope of this mission, Department of Defense entities can engage the Corps, on a cost reimbursement basis, to act as an extension of their staff. In cases where unique engineering support is unavailable through private sector architect-engineer firms, the Corps may be permitted to provide technical support to non-DoD federal agencies, to states and to localities. The Thomas Amendment, Section 211, Water Resources Development Act of 2000, discusses when the Corps can provide specialized or technical services to a state or local government. USACE supports the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Superfund Program, upon EPA request, by managing design and construction contracts and providing technical assistance in support of remedial response cleanup of hazardous waste sites. USACE also is a partner with EPA and other federal agencies in helping communities prevent, assess, safely clean up, and sustainably reuse Brownfields. Brownfields are abandoned, idled, or under-used industrial and commercial facilities where expansion or redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination.
The Corps of Engineers' Upper Mississippi River Restoration (UMRR) program (formerly known as the Environmental Management Program or EMP) has studies and projects in the Upper Mississippi River system north of Cairo, Illinois. The system includes the Illinois River. The program authorized by Congress in 1986 emphasizes habitat rehabilitation and enhancement projects and long-term resource monitoring. The habitat project component includes dredging backwater areas and channels, constructing dikes, creating and stabilizing islands, and controlling side channel flows and water levels. In the St. Paul District, the projects are located along the Minnesota and Mississippi Rivers from Guttenberg, Iowa (Lock and Dam 10), to Minneapolis, Minnesota, a distance of about 250 river miles. The long-term resource monitoring component includes monitoring trends and impacts with respect to selected resources, developing products for resource management decisions, and maintaining river information databases.