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National Water Quality Monitoring Council (NWQMC)
The Council was created in 1997 as a vehicle for bringing together diverse expertise needed to develop collaborative, comparable, and cost-effective approaches for monitoring and assessing our Nation’s water quality. The approaches are fundamental to the successful management and sustainability of our waters, and are increasingly important because water issues are becoming more complex, resources are tighter, and the demand for high-quality water continues to grow in order to support a complex web of human activities and aquatic ecosystem needs. The National Water Quality Monitoring Council (Council) provides a national forum for coordination of comparable and scientifically defensible methods and strategies to improve water quality monitoring, assessment and reporting, and promotes partnerships to foster collaboration, advance the science, and improve management within all elements of the water quality monitoring community. Vital to this role, the Council provides a voice for monitoring practitioners across the Nation and fosters increased understanding and stewardship of our water resources.
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Other Aspects of Air Pollution Regulation
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CDX/NetDMR Training
LDEQ NetDMR Training
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Featured Brownfield Tool: Brownfield Inventory Tool from Kansas State University’s Technical Assistance to Brownfield Program - March 04, 2020
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OSHA's PSM website
Link to the Occupational Health & Safety Administration's Process Safety Management program web page.
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Complaint Procedures
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TAPs not on the Federal HAP List
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What is required in order to process an Environmental Complaint?
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How do I obtain copies of analytical methods?
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EnviroFlash - the easy way to get current air quality information - April 22, 2015
EnviroFlash, DEQ's free automatic notification system, delivers air quality information to you in a timely and convenient manner. Since next week is Air Quality Awareness week nationally and May is Air Quality Awareness Month and the start of ozone season, knowing the air quality is important in planning activities. Through EnviroFlash, information is available to you on a daily basis or on-demand.
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USEPA Report "Reactive Nitrogen in the United States: An Analysis of Inputs, Flows, Consequences ...
This original SAB study analyzes sources and fate of reactive nitrogen in the environment, and provides advice to the EPA on integrated nitrogen research and control strategies. Sources of Reactive Nitrogen: Nitrogen gas in the air is an abundant, inert form of nitrogen that is transformed by nitrogen-fixing microbes into reactive forms of nitrogen that are taken up by algae, plants and other producers at the base of the food web. Human activities (primarily production and use of nitrogen fertilizers, nitrogen-fixing legume crops, and burning of fossil fuels) introduce five times more reactive nitrogen into the U.S. environment than natural sources. Environmental Effects: The overload of reactive nitrogen causes a range of effects as it cycles in the atmosphere, on land, and in water bodies. This sequence of effects is called the “nitrogen cascade.” Reactive nitrogen provides essential benefits as a fertilizer for food production. However, most of this nitrogen is not taken up by crops and is lost to the environment where it can contribute to the impacts noted above. Nitrogen oxides from burning of fossil fuels for transportation and power generation contribute to formation of smog, particulate matter and acid rain, and then can go on to contribute to over-fertilization of unmanaged forests and grasslands, coastal eutrophication, greenhouse effect and stratospheric ozone depletion. Management Implications: The SAB recommends (1) the use of the nitrogen cycle as an essential framework to address the environmental loading of reactive nitrogen; (2) an integrated cross-media approach to more effectively manage reactive nitrogen; (3) and monitoring and research to support management of reactive nitrogen. The SAB suggests that a 25 percent reduction of excess reactive nitrogen can be achieved with existing technology in the near term. The SAB also emphasizes that this decrease alone will not solve the problems of excess reactive N in the environment.
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Ambient Water Quality Monitoring Data
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Air Emissions Inventory Prior Year Resources
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Where are we looking and what have we found?
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Enviroflash
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LDEQ Launches New Water Data Portal - October 10, 2018
The new portal provides web access to surface water quality data as well as a multitude of additional water data tools.
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DEQ to hold second meeting in Evangeline Parish to protect drinking water - March 26, 2015
The DEQ Drinking Water Protection Team needs you! There will be a second meeting for the Evangeline Parish Drinking Water Protection Program, and it is not too late to get involved.
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St. Mary Drinking Water Protection Program schedules second committee meeting - January 16, 2015
The Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality Drinking Water Protection Program Team has been working with citizens in St. Mary Parish to protect their drinking water. A committee has been formed and the program has scheduled a second meeting.
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