409 - Total Maximum Daily Load Analysis and Modeling Advances: Connecting Climate Resilience, Socio-Environmental Systems, and Holistic Watershed Management

After the release of the ASCE Manuals and Reports on Engineering Practice (MOP) No. 150: Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Development and Implementation – Models, Methods, and Resources in 2022, the Task Committee on EWRI TMDL Analysis and Modeling continues its work to advance the state-of-the-practice in TMDL development and implementation planning and address emerging issues. The committee is documenting its work in a Special Collection of papers in the Journal of Environmental Engineering. The following papers are currently in progress:
1) Advancing Watershed Modeling for TMDL and Holistic Watershed Management Including Climate Change Impacts
2) Receiving Waterbody Model for TMDL – Advancing the State of the Practice
3) Integration of the Climate Assessment Module in TMDL Models
4) Advances in Watershed and Receiving Water Models for Simulating PFAS
5) Advances in TMDL Implementation Planning by Modeling Best Management Practices and Green Infrastructures
6) Harmful Algae Bloom Prediction and Prevention
7) Incorporation of Social Aspects and Stakeholder Participation and Cooperation in TMDL Modeling
8) Overcoming Data Scarcity in TMDL Modeling
9) Survey of TMDL Community for Current Practices
Progress on the above work will be briefly presented and feedback from the audience will be encouraged. The committee has plans to write more papers and summarize all in a book, as a follow-up guidance document after ASCE MOP 150. The submission to Special Collection is not limited to the Committee. Anyone can submit papers to the Journal of Environmental Engineering on the Special Collection topic: TMDL Analysis and Modeling Advances – Connecting Climate Resilience, Socio-Environmental Systems, and Holistic Watershed Management. The principal author may contact dborah@cityofchesapeake.net for more information.