Water Protection Program

Total Maximum Daily Load, or TMDL,
Water Body Record

Pond Creek
Approved Dec. 23, 2010

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, or EPA, approved the TMDL document for Pond Creek, WBID 2128, Washington County. 

303(d)-listed pollutant:

• Inorganic sediment.

To address the listed pollutant, TMDLs were calculated for:

• Bed sediment cadmium, lead and zinc.
• Dissolved cadmium, lead and zinc.
• Inorganic sediment.

Documents in this record:

• Approved Pond Creek TMDL.
• Pond Creek TMDL Information Sheet.
• EPA approval letter - This includes the EPA Region 7 TMDL Review pages in which they document how this TMDL meets all of their requirements.
• Submittal letter transferring the TMDL to EPA for approval.
• Comment and response - The department received one comment letter during the public notice period, which was from June 8 to July 23, 2010. 
  Note: Comments were received from EPA after submittal.  Those comments were addressed prior to approval.