News Releases - 2001

IEPA Sets Public Meeting On Development of Total Maximum Daily Loads for State Waters

Springfield, Ill. -- A public meeting will be held from 2 to 4:30 p.m. on June 5, 2001, to provide information on efforts to develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for all or parts of 13 watersheds the IEPA has identified as having impaired water quality. The meeting will be held in the Training Conference Room at the Illinois EPA headquarters, located at 1021 North Grand Avenue East in Springfield, Ill..

The TMDLs will determine the load limits allowed for specific pollutants from point and nonpoint sources identified for each waterbody segment. In addition to the TMDLs, implementation plans will be developed identifying management practices to be implemented, the associated costs and institutional arrangements necessary to implement the management practices.

The meeting will give the public the opportunity to ask questions of Illinois EPA and its consultants, and will allow interested parties to become partners in the TMDL process. Public input will be sought at additional public meetings/hearings during the TMDL process.

The Illinois EPA has selected CH2MHILL, Camp Dresser and McKee (CDM), Tetra Tech EM Inc., and Tetra Tech Inc., to develop TMDLs for impaired waterbody segments in 13 Illinois watersheds. The segments are in the watersheds of the:

• West Branch of the DuPage River in DuPage County;
• Beaucoup Creek in Washington/Perry Counties;
• Casey Fork in Jefferson County;
• Bonnie Creek in Perry County;
• the Big Muddy River in Williamson County;
• Dutchman Creek in Johnson County;
• the Big Muddy River in Jackson County;
• the Little Muddy River in Jackson County;
• Little Cache Creek in Johnson County;
• Altamont New Lake in Effingham County;
• Vandalia Lake in Fayette County;
• Charleston Side Channel Reservoir in Coles/Cumberland counties
• and the Fox River in Richland County.

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These stream segments were identified by the Illinois EPA in the Agency's 1998 303(d) List, which was approved by U.S. EPA. Section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act requires states to identify and prioritize streams identified as having water quality problems.

For more information, or questions about the TMDL process, contact:

Gary K. Eicken,
Illinois EPA
(217) 782-3362.