Specific Tasks: The SAC will be called upon to review, provide comments and discuss TMDL interim reports throughout the TMDL development process. Efforts will concentrate on TMDLs for which agriculture is identified as a source of water quality impairment. Issues to be addressed will include, but are not limited to: selection of water quality and hydrologic models; input values, data sources and data availability for models; dealing with agriculture related runoff issues (e.g., surface drainage vs. tiles) and recommending best management practices and evaluating their effectiveness.

The Illinois TMDL SAC is:

Dr. George Czapar - Extension Educator, University of Illinois Extension

Dr. Mark David - Professor, Biogeochemistry, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Misganaw Demissie - Director of the Office of Sediment and Wetland Studies, Illinois State Water Survey

Dr. Michael Gray - Professor, Agricultural Entomology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Michael Hirschi - Professor, Agricultural and Biological Engineering, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dr. Wesley Jarrell - Professor and Head of Department of Natural Resources
and Environmental Sciences

Dr. David Kovacic - Associate Professor, Department of Landscape
Architecture

Dr. Greg McIssac - Associate Professor of Natural Resources and Environmental Sciences, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

Dennis McKenna - Deputy Division Manager, Division of Natural Resources, Illinois Department of Agriculture

Don Pitts - Water Quality Specialist, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Brett Roberts - Conservation Agronomist, Natural Resources Conservation Service

Beth Wentzel - Watershed Scientist, Prairie Rivers Network