5/26/2010

Abstracts Invited for Impaired Waters Symposium

The Impaired Waters Symposium will be January 12-13, 2011, in Miami. Hosted by The Water Environment Federation, its theme will be "Spanning the Water Quality: Continuum From Standards to TMDLs".

Abstracts addressing the following key topics are invited:

• Pollutant-Specific Issues (for example, nutrients, mercury, metals, temperature, conductivity)
• Science and Policy Aspects of Setting, Revising, and Interpreting Water Quality Standards
• The 303(d) Listing Process (including alternatives to listing such as EPA's "4b" and "5m" categories)
• Modeling for TMDL Development
• TMDL Issues and Innovations
• Urban Wet Weather/Stormwater and Nonpoint Source Issues
• Tools for Implementation (for example, adaptive management, phased or staged TMDLs, watershed-based permitting, water quality trading)

All abstracts must be submitted online on or before July 16, 2010.

For more information about this conference or to submit an abstract, click here