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Fall 2011 Newletter from New Mexico Environment Department Surface Water Quality Bureau

A list of groups working on water quality issues in New Mexico, maintained by the New Mexico Environment Department.

A Volumn 16 #2 issue of Clearing the Waters is now available

Draft language to be shared and discussed with USEPA during March 21, 2011 meeting in Albuquerque

May 11, 2011 letter from Miguel I. Flores, Director, Water Quality Protection Division, USEPA Region 6

Report written for StormCon 2011

RFP for On-The-Ground Surface Water Quality Improvement Projects issued 3/4/11 by NM Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Watershed Protection Section. A portion of the §319(h) funding awarded to the New Mexico Environment Department in fiscal year 2012 will fund watershed-based initiatives that are most likely to measurably improve water quality in priority waters by 2015 and in the longer term.

RFP for Watershed-Based Planning Projects issued 3/4/11 by NM Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau, Watershed Protection Section. A portion of the §319(h) funding awarded to the New Mexico Environment Department in fiscal year 2012 will fund stakeholder-driven initiatives to develop watershed-based plans which quantitatively describe sources of nonpoint source pollution, identify management measures to address pollutant loading, quantify the effects that implementation of those management measures would have, and accomplish other planning elements.

The Winter 2010-11 issue of Clearing the Waters describes recent activities in New Mexico's surface water quality programs.

NM Environment Department is inviting the public to comment on the draft “total maximum daily load” (TMDL) document for the Rio Chama Watershed. The 30-day comment period opens February 23, 2011 and will close March 28, 2011. NMED's Surface Water Quality Bureau (SWQB) plans to request approval of the draft final TMDLs at the Water Quality Control Commission meeting on May 10, 2011.