Monongalia

NOTICE

010119403 August 28
The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection is compiling water quality data on the state’s streams and lakes.

The DEP’s Division of Water and Waste Management is collecting water quality data for use in the development of the 2018 Integrated Report, which includes the 303(d) list of impaired waters. In addition to data collected by the office’s Watershed Assessment Branch, the agency will be assessing water quality data collected by state and federal agencies, watershed associations, permitted facilities and others with available data.

The Integrated Report is developed by the DEP and submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency every two years as required in the federal Clean Water Act. Streams and lakes are included on the list of impaired waters if they fail to meet water quality standards.

If you have collected water quality data in West Virginia within the five-year period from July 1, 2012, through June 30, 2017, and are willing to share that data with the agency, send it to Chris.A. [email protected] or [email protected]. The deadline to submit data is October 27, 2017.

A data submission form is available for download at www.dep.wv.gov/WWE/watershed/IR/Pages/Third-Party-Data-Guidelines.aspx. The form has all the required information necessary to ensure the data can be evaluated for use in the report.

Documentation that describes data collection and analysis details will help the agency assess its quality. If the data was subject to a quality assurance/quality control plan, submit it with the data. For an example of a QA/QC plan, go to http://www.epa.gov/quality/qs-docs/g5-final.pdf

Although electronic data submission is highly preferred and encouraged, non-electronic submissions may be sent to the DEP at the Division of Water and Waste Management, Attn: Steve Young, 601 57th St. S.E., Charleston, WV 25304.