Legacy Pollutant Total Maximum Daily Loads: An Oxymoron?

Legacy pollutants (such as pesticides, polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), and other chemicals banned from use years ago) represent a major challenge to the states' total maximum daily load (TMDL) programs. However, many legacy pollutant sites are regulated under one or more existing federal programs. Therefore, legacy pollutant TMDLs often represent a form of regulatory double jeopardy as successful execution of federal program regulated cleanup does not preclude responsible parties from the TMDL provisions of the Clean Water Act. In addition, certain legacy pollutants have shown to bioaccumulate, which allows TMDLs to require reduction of fish tissue burdens for the removal of fish consumption advisories. Often, water column concentrations derived from targeted fish tissue body burdens are far below the analytical detection limit, exceed background pollutant concentrations and are not supported by site-specific data. These issues require alternative approaches for establishing legacy pollutant TMDLs.

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  • https://doi.org/10.1061/9780784413067.028
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  • © 2013 American Society of Civil Engineers.
• Corporate Authors:

  American Society of Civil Engineers

  1801 Alexander Bell Drive
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• Authors:
  • Darby, E
  • Rhea, J
  • Benaman, J
  • Anghera, S
  • Glaser, D
  • Hovel, W
• Conference:
  • Ports '13: 13th Triennial International Conference
  • Location: Seattle Washington, United States
  • Date: 2013-8-25 to 2013-8-28
• Publication Date: 2013-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Pagination: pp 262-271
• Monograph Title: Ports 2013: Success through Diversification

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Chemicals; Environmental monitoring; Pesticides; Pollutants; Regulation; Water pollution; Water quality management
• Identifier Terms: Clean Water Act
• Uncontrolled Terms: Polychlorinated biphenyls; Total maximum daily loads
• Subject Areas: Environment; Law; Marine Transportation; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01523257
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9780784413067
• Files: TRIS, ASCE
• Created Date: Apr 25 2014 12:04PM