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Water Quality Standards

Antidegradation Conference:

Conference on Antidegradation Policy, Anchorage, December 2-3, 2009

Regulations and Guidance:

Water Quality Criteria are generally contained in two documents: (1) Water Quality Standards and (2) Water Quality Criteria Manual for Toxics that is adopted by reference as listed below:

Water Quality Criteria Documents:

  1. Water Quality Standards:
    • 2009 Water Quality Standards (September 19, 2009) pdf
    • Historic 18 AAC 70 WQS - Previous versions of Alaska's Water Quality Standards (some of which are still in effect for CWA purposes)pdf
  2. Water Quality Criteria Manual for Toxics (December 12, 2008)pdf

Guidance:

We want people to have easy access to the regulations, proposed revisions, fact sheets, technical papers, and issues that may be of interest. The links on the right include a great deal of WQS information, along with information about the Triennial Review and BEACH Grant Initiatives.

What Water Quality Standards Apply and When

Recent Activities

What We Do:

  • Evaluate and revise Alaska's Water Quality Standards based on science.
  • Explain the Water Quality Standards and how they are used.
  • Provide easy access to water quality standards related documents, including the regulations, proposed revisions, fact sheets, technical papers, guidance documents and issues that may be of interest

Note: For questions about Drinking Water, please contact the Division of Environmental Health, Drinking Water Programs.

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