NOTICES
Availability of Final Total Maximum Daily Loads
[34 Pa.B. 2640] The Department of Environmental Protection (Department) has developed Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for the following watersheds. TMDLs set the pollutant loading amounts for impaired waters that are allocated among the sources in the watershed. The TMDLs have been approved by the Environmental Protection Agency and satisfy the Department's obligations under section 303(d) of the Federal Clean Water Act.
Stream Name County Pollutants Thompson Run Allegheny Metals, pH, Other Inorganics Allegheny River Allegheny PCB, Chlordane Potato Garden Run Allegheny and Washington Metals, pH Monongahela River Allegheny, Fayette and Washington PCB, Chlordane Chartiers Creek Allegheny and Washington PCB, Chlordane Little Chartiers Creek Allegheny and Washington PCB, Chlordane Chartiers Creek Watershed Allegheny and Washington Metals Ohio River Allegheny, Beaver, Lawrence and Washington PCB, Chlordane Beaver River Beaver and Lawrence PCB, Chlordane Brush Creek* Beaver and Butler Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Sandy Run Bedford Metals, pH Hospital Creek Berks Nutrients Little Cacoosing Creek Berks Nutrients, Siltation UNT Tulpehocken Creek Berks Nutrients Laurel Run* Somerset Metals, pH Kittanning Run Blair and Cambria Metals, pH Stephen Foster Lake Bradford Nutrients, Siltation Levittown Lake Bucks PCB Lake Luxembourg Bucks Nutrients, Suspended Solids Fowler Run Butler Metals, pH Bear Loop Run Cambria Metals, pH, Other Inorganics Bald Eagle Creek* Cambria Thermal Modifications Little Muddy Run Cambria and Clearfield Metals, pH Cooks Run Cameron and Clinton Metals, pH, Siltation Panther Creek Carbon, Schuylkill Metals, pH Catawissa Creek Carbon, Columbia, Luzerne and Schuylkill Metals, pH Cold Stream Centre Metals West Branch Brandywine River Chester and Montgomery PCB, Chlordane Valley Creek Chester and Montgomery PCB Parks Run Clarion pH Douglas Run Clarion Metals, pH Beaver Run Clarion Metals, pH, Other Inorganics Whites Run Clarion Metals, pH Montgomery Creek Clearfield Metals, pH Drury Run Clinton Metals, pH Tangascootack Creek Clinton Metals, pH Two Mile Run Clinton Metals, pH Shamokin Creek Columbia and Northumberland Metals Conneaut Lake Crawford Nutrients, Suspended Solids Conodoguinet Creek Watershed** Cumberland and Franklin Siltation, Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Bear Creek Dauphin Metals, pH, Siltation Rausch Creek Dauphin and Schuylkill Metals, pH Conewago Creek Dauphin, Lancaster and Lebanon Nutrients, Siltation Conewago Creek Dauphin Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Virgin Run Lake Fayette Nutrients Cheat River Fayette Chlordane Cats Run Fayette Metals, pH Shoup Run Huntingdon Metals, pH Huskins Run Armstrong Metals, pH, Other Inorganics Parks Run Jefferson pH Chickies Creek Lancaster Nutrients, Siltation Conowingo Creek Lancaster Nutrients, Suspended Solids Muddy Run Lancaster Nutrients, Siltation Mill Creek (UNT)* Lancaster Total Dissolved Solids, Chlorides Pequea Creek Lancaster Nutrients, Siltation, Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Donegal Creek Lancaster Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Shenango River Lawrence and Mercer PCB, Chlordane Swatara Creek (UNT) Lebanon Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Owl Creek Lebanon Nutrients, Siltation Deep Run Lebanon Nutrients, Siltation Earlakill Run Lebanon Nutrients, Siltation Quittapahilla Creek Watershed** Lebanon Nutrients, Suspended Solids, Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Harveys Lake Luzerne Nutrients, Suspended Solids Trout Creek (UNT)* Montgomery Total Residual Chloride Brandywine River* Montgomery PCB, Chlordane Pennypack Creek* Montgomery Priority Organics, Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Susquehanna River Northumberland, Montour, Columbia, Luzerne, Lackawanna and Wyoming PCB North Fork Cowanesque River Potter and Tioga Siltation, Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Upper Swatara Creek Schuylkill Metals Wabash Creek Schuylkill Metals Hans Yost Creek Schuylkill Metals, pH North Branch Mahantango Creek Snyder Siltation, Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. South Branch Wyalusing Creek Susquehanna Nutrients, Suspended Solids Fall Brook Tioga Metals, pH Morris Run Tioga Metals, pH Babb Creek Tioga Metals, pH Lockard Run Venango Metals, pH Dutch Fork Lake Washington Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Plum Run Washington Siltation, Nutrients Thorn Run Westmoreland Metals Lake Carey Wyoming Nutrients Pinchot Lake York Organic Enrichment/Low D. O. Oil Creek York Nutrients, Siltation *Reports not available on website.
**No TMDL for mainstem.
To request a copy of a TMDL, contact the Division of Water Quality Assessment and Standards, Department of Environmental Protection, P. O. Box 8467, Harrisburg, PA 17105-8467, (717) 787-9637, rnaugle@state.pa.us. The TMDLs are also available on the Department's website: www.dep.state.pa.us/watermanagement_apps/tmdl/ (choose stream under ''Select By TMDL Name:'').
KATHLEEN A. MCGINTY,
Secretary
[Pa.B. Doc. No. 04-854. Filed for public inspection May 14, 2004, 9:00 a.m.]
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