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20 Water Quality Status Report: Perdido River and Bay The Watershed Management Cycle in the Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Northwest District Figure 1.1 shows the order in which the Department’s Northwest District basin groups will be evaluated under the watershed management cycle. These groups are identified according to a U.S. Geological Survey classification system using hydrologic unit codes. Ochlockonee–St. Marks, a Group 1 basin, was the fi rst basin in the district to undergo a preliminary assessment in 2000. A preliminary assessment for the Group 2 basin, Apalachicola–Chipola, was completed in 2001 and for the Group 3 basin, Choctawhatchee–St. Andrew, in 2002. The Group 4 preliminary assessment for the Pensacola Basin was carried out in 2003. The Group 5 basin, Perdido River and Bay Basin, is the subject of this report. In 2005, the cycle resumed with the Group 1 basin, Ochlockonee–St. Marks. Figure 1.1: Schedule for Implementing the Watershed Management Cycle in the Department’s Northwest District, Basin Groups 1 through 5
Noteworthy Contents of This Report • Chapter 1: Introduction briefly characterizes the purpose and content of the Status Report, discusses stakeholder involvement, and describes how the watershed management cycle will be implemented in the Department’s Northwest District. • Chapter 2: Basin Overview characterizes the basin’s general setting, surface water and ground water resources, major water quality trends, and watershed management activities and processes. • Chapter 3: Preliminary Surface Water Quality Assessment discusses the scope of the assessment, summarizes data-gathering activities and sources of data, describes the EPA’s terminology for designated use attainment and its integrated report categories, and provides, by basin planning unit, an evaluation of water quality, a discussion of permitted discharges and land uses, a summary of ecological priorities and problems, and an overview of water quality improvement plans and projects. • Chapter 4: Ground Water Quality Assessment describes the Department’s principal ground water monitoring networks, the basin assessment methodology, the ground water assessment results, and resource priorities and proposed actions. • Chapter 5: The Planning List of Potentially Impaired Waters contains the Planning List of potentially impaired waterbodies. The chapter also describes the relationship between the Planning and Verified Lists, and summarizes water quality findings for the basin. • Chapter 6: Strategic Monitoring and Data Evaluation summarizes strategic monitoring and data evaluation priorities and objectives that are critical to the development of the Verified List of impaired waters during the next phase of the watershed management cycle. It includes a general inventory of monitoring and data-gathering activities by other groups and programs that could be incorporated into the assessment. Water Quality Status Report: Perdido River and Bay 21
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