2023 National Training Workshop on Water Quality Data, Assessment, and Plans — Presentations and Materials

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Session 1: Breakouts I

• How to Assess/List Waters and Develop TMDLs with Narrative Nutrient Criteria

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• Environmental Justice: Achieving Meaningful Involvement 
  • Equitable Development Resource Hub - Groundwork USA
  • Best Practices for Meaningful Community Engagement Tip Sheet - Groundwork USA
  • Equitable Development in Action Worksheet - Groundwork USA

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• Advance Restoration Plans/5R and 4B Plans: Examples and EPA's Expectations

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  Evaluating TMDL Effectiveness: Getting the Necessary Data through Existing Means

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  ATTAINS: A Secret Sauce Training (Intermediate to Advanced)

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  Continuous Data Management Options and Tools

Session 2: Interagency Collaboration

 

Session 3: Data Resources and Communication Tools

• What's New with How's My Waterway – Kiki Schneider, EPA HQ

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  The Internet of Water at EPA – Alex Porteous, EPA HQ

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  The Criteria Search Tool & TADA – Cristina Mullin, EPA HQ

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  Mapping Tools: Leaflet and My Maps – Alan Ochoa Rodriguez, Utah

Session 4: Incorporating Climate Change and Environmental Justice Considerations into Program Activities

• Climate Change and the 303(d) Program Updates – Dylan Laird, EPA HQ

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  Thinking About Climate Change (Extending the Service Life of Our TMDLs) – Mike Kruse, Missouri

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  Environmental Justice and the 303(d) Program Updates – Sara Schwartz, EPA HQ

Session 5: Breakouts II

• Litigation on Assessment/Listing and TMDLs

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  Treatment in the Same Manner as a State (TAS) Authority for CWA 303(d): Adoption and Implementation

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  Examples of Water Quality Assessment Tools

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  Integrating Protection with Watershed-based Planning

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  Automation and the Use of R for TMDL Development

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  Introduction to Using Open Source R Tools for Automated Data Analysis (TADA) to Retrieve, Wrangle, and Clean WQP Data (Beginner & R User)

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  Introduction to Using Open Source R Tools for Automated Data Analysis (TADA) to Retrieve, Wrangle, and Clean WQP Data (Intermediate & R User)

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  How to Answer Common Questions with Available Data Tools

Session 6: Breakouts III

• Protection of Downstream Water Quality Standards through TMDLs

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  HABs: Criteria, When to Measure, and How to Tie it Back to a Pollutant

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  Stormwater and TMDLs: Examples of Approaches

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  Category 4C: Process and Examples of Successful Restoration

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  Finding and Using Data from the Water Quality Portal

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  Tracking Changing Assessment Units and Updates on NHD+

Session 7: Prioritization and Planning

• [Presentation Title To Be Determined] – Tegan Rostock, EPA HQ

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  How Vision 1.0 Secured Wisconsin's Program and Using Vision 2.0 to Identify Future Priorities – Ashley Beranek and Kevin Kirsch, Wisconsin

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  How Cross-Program Coordination and Environmental Justice are Changing the Way Colorado Prioritizes TMDLs for Vision 2.0 – Barbara Bennett, Colorado