Total Maximum Daily Loads, or TMDLs, serve a profoundly important function under the federal Clean Water Act. They provide regulators with a systematic and comprehensive mechanism for identifying all sources and causes of water quality impairment, and then calculating the reductions needed to address the impairment in an equitable manner. But for TMDLs to be effective, they must be derived in a legally and technically defensible manner.
The truth about mercury TMDLs
The truth about mercury TMDLs
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Brooks Smith is with Hunton & Williams LLP in Richmond, Virginia, where he co-chairs the firm’s environmental practice. Dr. Max Lee and Dr. John Koogler are professional engineers with Koogler and Associates, Inc., in Gainesville, Florida.
