October 2011 — PUBLIC NOTICE - Data Request: Water Quality Data and Information for the 2012 Integrated Report and Surface Water Quality Assessment (303(d)/305(b))

About BWQP — The Bureau of Water Quality Planning (BWQP) is responsible for several water quality protection functions which include collecting and analyzing water data, developing standards for surface waters, publishing informational reports, providing water quality education and implementing programs to address surface water quality.

Resources Information

Nevada's 2006 303(d) Impaired
     Waters List

401 Water Quality Certification

Water Quality Planning GIS
     Information Center
     Nevada 2006 303d/305b
     Assessed Waters

BWQP's Long Range Plan
    2006-2011 [23 Pages]

Statutory Authority
    [NRS 445A.010 / 445A.730]

Staff Contacts

BWQP Programs / Branches
The Water Quality Standards Branch — is responsible for developing and reviewing water quality standards; determining total maximum daily loads and wasteload allocations from point sources; and determining load allocations from nonpoint sources.

The Monitoring Branch — is responsible for the State's water quality monitoring program. This branch maintains and updates water quality data for the national water quality data base (Water Quality Exchange Network - WQX) and is responsible for preparation of Nevada's Water Quality Assessment Report which is required under Section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act (CWA).

The Nonpoint Source (NPS) Pollution Management Program — is the lead agency for controlling nonpoint sources of pollution in Nevada. Nonpoint source (NPS) pollution results from a variety of diffuse and dispersed human activities.

The Lake Tahoe Watershed Program — is the NDEP program collaborating with the California Regional Water Quality Control Board, Lahontan Region (Lahontan Water Board) to protect Lake Tahoe as a water of extraordinary aesthetic or ecologic value.