Tag: Division of Water
EPA approved KY Division of Water’s Floyds Fork Bacteria TMDL
EPA approved KY Division of Water’s (KDOW) Floyds Fork Bacteria TMDL this September. This report, prepared by KDOW, addresses impairments in 18 stream segments that make them impaired for the primary contact recreation (swimming) and secondary contact recreation (boating and wading) designated uses in the Floyds Fork Watershed which is located in Bullitt, Henry, Jefferson, Oldham, […]
Oil Well Operators in Hart County, KY, Sentenced for Violations of the Safe Drinking Water Act
Two oil well operators in Hart County and Logsdon Valley Oil Co. Inc., were ordered to pay fines for the continued conspiracy to inject fluids, without a permit, into sinkholes and wells from March 13, 2008 through July 18, 2012, in violation of the Safe Drinking Water Act. Specifically, they configured piping to inject produced […]
EPA Rules on Selenium Regulations
On November 15th, the Kentucky Division of Water received notice that the EPA approved part of the proposed water quality standards for selenium put forth in May 2013. The EPA approved Kentucky’s chronic water criteria and the practice of fish tissue sampling to determine compliance. However, Kentucky’s acute water criteria was rejected by the EPA, […]
Kentucky Wastewater Lab Certification Program now in effect
The Division of Water’s wastewater laboratory certification program has been a long time coming, but it’s finally here! The program, which will standardize procedures for obtaining and analyzing KPDES wastewater compliance samples, became effective on September 5, 2013. Any general or field-only wastewater lab that performs an analysis, measurement, or lab test for reporting on […]
TMDLs in Kentucky
As you might remember from our Legislative Updates, HB 378 required Division of Water (DOW) to make the TMDL listing process more transparent. Last week, DOW introduced a new webpage that provides information on the process of writing TMDLs, Standard Operating Procedures used for monitoring and assessments, and the current TMDLs that DOW is writing. In […]