The Lower Fox River TMDL Agriculture Implementation Committee is a stakeholder group that addresses the agricultural implementation of the Lower Fox Total Maximum Daily Load.
Red Cedar River. Image courtesy of Jon H. Fuller, 2019.
The following TMDLs have been approved by the DNR and the EPA. To see a list of waters that are included in these TMDLs, please use our Impaired Waters tool to find waters with the status code of Approved TMDL. To see a map of TMDL sites, use the…
A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) implementation plan is a document that provides details of the actions needed to achieve pollutant load reductions, outlines a schedule of those actions and specifies monitoring needed to document actions and…
What is a TMDL? A Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) is the maximum amount of a pollutant that a body of water can receive while still meeting water quality standards. A waterway that exceeds water quality standards is often no longer suitable for its…
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) and its partners are working to restore and protect the state's water quality by developing Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs). These multi-year studies involve collecting detailed water quality…
Once a TMDL is approved, federal and state regulations require implementation of point source requirements, or wasteload allocations (WLAs), from the TMDL to be expressed in Wisconsin Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (WPDES) permits.…