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USEPA WATERSHED APPROACH
Citation:
Goodrich*, J A. USEPA WATERSHED APPROACH. Presented at USEPA Watershed Approach, Beijing, CHINA, April 07 - 12, 2004.
Impact/Purpose:
To inform the public.
Description:
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Research and Development has developed a well defined research plan to evaluate pollutants within watersheds. This plan is defined by long term goals and annual performance measures. The first goal is to provide the approaches and methods to develop and apply criteria for habitat alteration, nutrients, suspended and bedded sediments, pathogens and toxic chemicals that will support designated uses for aquatic systems. The second goal is to provide the tools to assess and diagnose the causes and pollutant sources of impairment in aquatic systems. A third goal is to provide the tools to restore and protect impaired aquatic systems and to forecast the ecological, economic, and human health benefits to alternative approaches to attain water quality standards. Finally, the fourth goal is to provide the approaches, methods and tools to assess the exposures and reduce the human health risks from biosolids contaminants for use by OW, States and others in updating biosolids guidance and regulations.
This presentation discusses how the U.S. EPA is conducting research to meet these goals at it's National Risk Management Research Facility in Cincinnati, Ohio.