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Virginia Tech Puts TMDL Data Online

March 5, 2008

Virginia Tech's Center for Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) and Watershed Studies has developed an online database for selected TMDL-related information and documents.

The searchable clearinghouse contains three types of resources:  TMDL guidance documents, reviews and summaries of TMDL-related technical and trade literature, and state-by-state summaries of TMDL programs across the nation. State summaries are updated regularly for all 50 states and include the approach and methodology used to develop TMDLs in that state.

In total, about 500 documents are available within this database, which was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The TMDL Knowledgebase Clearinghouse can be accessed at www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/site/knowledgebase/.