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    The Total Maximum Daily Load Development Section performs federally- and State-required surface water quality review and planning functions.
    The TMDL process can be best described as determining and planning a watershed or basin-wide budget for pollutant influx to a watercourse.  This process necessarily involves state and federal agencies, local water users and other concerned citizens as well as the Public at-large.

    A TMDL, in actuality, is a planning document.  The Total Maximum Daily Load Program determines the adequacy and significance of water quality and other supporting data, reviews the effectiveness of existing water quality protection and pollution control measures, evaluates existing management strategies and develops potential new water quality management implementation strategies. The program interactively uses the full resources of the bureau to develop and coordinate materials that support the current CWA § 303(d) List for the State of New Mexico.
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  •     TMDLDS maintains the Comprehensive Planning Program, Water Quality Management Plan, Wetlands Conservation Plan and the federal Clean Water Act's § 305(b) Biennial Report to Congress, Water Quality and Water Pollution Control in New Mexico, required by both the federal and State Acts.  TMDLDS has developed and nurtured important ties with several public and private watershed-interest groups throughout New Mexico through its Watching Our Waters program.

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    Last Updated 06.29.05  
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