LibGuides: ENV 375 Topics in Environmental Studies: Cases in Environmental Resource Management: Lake Champlain TMDL

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The dilemma of controlling cultural eutrophication of lakes
The management of eutrophication has been impeded by reliance on short-term experimental additions of nutrients to bottles and mesocosms. These measures of proximate nutrient limitation fail to account for the gradual changes in biogeochemical nutrient cycles and nutrient fluxes from sediments, and succession of communities that are important components of whole-ecosystem responses. Erroneous assumptions about ecosystem processes and lack of accounting for hysteresis during lake recovery have further confused management of eutrophication. I conclude that long-term, whole-ecosystem experiments and case histories of lake recovery provide the only reliable evidence for policies to reduce eutrophication. The only method that has had proven success in reducing the eutrophication of lakes is reducing input of phosphorus.
Lake Champlain
Vermonters love Lake Champlain. We depend on the lake for fishing, swimming, boating, and other recreational pursuits. It provides drinking water. Summer tourism and property values are tied to its health and beauty. The lake attracts businesses with a workforce that appreciates the lake’s natural beauty and Vermont’s working landscape...
Lake Champlain Phosphorus TMDL: A Commitment to Clean Water
Excess phosphorus from a variety of sources has impaired the water quality of Lake Champlain. In 2002, Vermont prepared a plan to reduce phosphorus loadings by developing a Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL). A TMDL places a cap on the maximum amount of phosphorus that is allowed to enter the Lake and still meet Vermont's water quality standards. EPA disapproved the Vermont 2002 Lake Champlain Phosphorus TMDL in 2011...
Vermont Journal of Environmental Law Special Issue on Lake Champlain TMDL
This specific issue focuses on the recently approved Lake Champlain Phosphorus Total Maximum Daily Load (“TMDL”) for twelve Vermont segments of Lake Champlain. Each segment has its own TMDL, but the authors within the issue will typically refer to the TMDLs as a singular TMDL because of the single controlling framework. Unlike a standard issue of a legal journal that has articles written almost exclusively by lawyers, law professors, and law students, this issue also provides articles written by scientists, engineers, and policymakers who had direct influence on the development of the 2016 Lake Champlain TMDL. These authors provide a rare opportunity to combine into one book the first-hand knowledge of a major regulatory framework.

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Lake Champlain Basin Program
The Lake Champlain Basin Program (LCBP) works in partnership with government agencies from New York, Vermont, and Québec, private organizations, local communities, and individuals to coordinate and fund efforts that benefit the Lake Champlain Basin’s water quality, fisheries, wetlands, wildlife, recreation, and cultural resources.

EPA Watershed Academy
The Watershed Academy provides self-paced training modules and webcasts from national experts about a range of watershed management topics.
Department of Environmental Conservation Search
A TMDL or Total Maximum Daily Load is the calculation of the maximum amount of a pollutant that a waterbody can receive and still meet Vermont Water Quality Standards. In a broader sense, a TMDL is a plan that identifies the pollutant reductions a waterbody needs to meet Vermont's Water Quality Standards and develops a means to implement those reductions. TMDLs can be calculated for correcting water pollution from specific point source discharges or throughout a watershed and balance the location and amount of needed pollution reductions.
Environmental Protection Agency
Lake Champlain Phosphorus TMDL: A Commitment to Clean Water
Massachusetts Total Maximum Daily Loads
TMDL stands for "Total Maximum Daily Load". A TMDL is a calculation of the highest amount of a pollutant that a water body can take in and still meet standards for healthy systems. The federal Clean Water Act requires states to identify water bodies that do not meet these standards and develop TMDLs for them.

Lake Champlain Sea Grant Program University of Vermont
Lake Champlain Sea Grant envisions a future in which Basin communities anticipate and enable change for long-term ecosystem health and sustainable economic development. The mission of Lake Champlain Sea Grant is to develop and share science-based knowledge to benefit the environment and economies of the Lake Champlain Basin.
A cooperative program of the University of Vermont and SUNY Plattsburgh, Lake Champlain Sea Grant is a part of a national network of 35 projects and programs at coastal and Great Lakes colleges, coordinated by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Clean Water Act
The Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948 was the first major U.S. law to address water pollution. Growing public awareness and concern for controlling water pollution led to sweeping amendments in 1972. As amended in 1972, the law became commonly known as the Clean Water Act (CWA).