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Main Title Hicks Creek TMDL for Nitrate.
CORP Author Environmental Protection Agency, Dallas, TX. Region VI.
Year Published 2000
Stock Number PB2012-102118
Additional Subjects Total maximum daily load ; Nitrates ; Arkansas ; Streams ; Standards ; Water quality ; Land use ; Geology ; Cattle ; Models ; Water pollution ; Clean Water Act ; Hicks Creek(Arkansas) ; Mountain Home(Arkansas) ; Baxter County(Arkansas)
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NTIS  PB2012-102118 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
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Abstract
Section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act requires states to identify waterbodies that are not meeting water quality standards and to develop total maximum daily pollutant loads for those waterbodies. A total maximum daily load (TMDL) is the amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can assimilate without exceeding the established water quality standard for that pollutant. Through a TMDL, pollutant loa s can be distributed or allocated to point sources and nonpoint sources discharging to th waterbody. A TMDL has been developed for nitrates for Hicks Creek. Hicks Creek has its origin approximately one mile north of the Mountain Home city limits in the west central part of Baxter County. It flows in a southerly direction through Mountain Home for about four miles prior to receiving the sewage treatment plant (STP) outfall. Hicks Creek then continues south for another 2.9 miles to its confluence with Big Creek. Hicks Creek was listed on the 1998 Arkansas 303(d) list as being impaired for nutrients. To protect the drinking water designated use for this segment the target for TMDL will be established as 10 mg/I nitrates.