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The Utah Division of Water Quality’s (DWQ) mission is to safeguard and improve Utah’s water quality through balanced regulation. Protecting Utah’s water quality for drinking, recreation, aquatic wildlife and agricultural beneficial uses is DWQ’s primary goal. DWQ regularly monitors and assesses the state’s streams and lakes to ensure these beneficial uses are supported. The Utah Integrated Report (IR) summarizes the assessment of the quality of the surface waters in the state and identifies waterbodies that are not supporting their beneficial uses. Waterbodies that do not meet one or more of their beneficial uses are classified as impaired in the IR and placed on the Clean Water Act 303(d) list of impaired waters. DWQ is in the beginning stages of prioritizing which impaired waters will be addressed for Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) development over the next 10 years. The TMDL Prioritization process will set goals for planning and prioritization, restoration, protection, data and analysis and partnerships. The process will also consider Environmental Justice, Climate Change, Tribal Water Quality and Program Development, and Program Capacity Building in the state’s prioritization framework. DWQ is interested in your water quality concerns and will be soliciting stakeholder feedback throughout the TMDL Prioritization process. Please visit our table for additional information and to provide your contact information so we can include and update you.
