How probability survey data can help integrate 305(b) and 303(d) monitoring and assessment of state waters

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 103, Issue 1-3, 2005, Pages 41-57

  Brown, Barbara S ^a   Detenbeck, Naomi E ^a   Eskin, Richard ^b  

^a U S ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY   (United States)

^b Maryland Department of the Environ   (United States)

Author keywords

303(d); 305(b); Clean Water Act; EMAP; Impaired waters; Integrated assessment; Monitoring

Indexed keywords

GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS; RIVERS; STANDARDS; TECHNICAL PRESENTATIONS; WATER QUALITY;

CLEAN WATER ACT (CWA); ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING AND ASSESSMENT PROGRAM (EMAP); IMPAIRED WATER;

ECOSYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; ECONOMIC EVALUATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; LANDSCAPE ECOLOGY; LAW; METHODOLOGY; POLICY; PROBABILITY; RIVER ECOSYSTEM; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; UNITED STATES; WATER ANALYSIS; WATER POLLUTION; WATER QUALITY; WATER STANDARD; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FRESH WATER; PROBABILITY; RIVERS; UNITED STATES; WATER POLLUTION; WATER SUPPLY;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 16344390090     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-005-6854-0     Document Type: Article

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