Total Maximum Daily Load Program: Improving Water Quality
A program that assists stakeholders in restoring the quality of impaired streams, lakes, and bays.
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Duffau Creek
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The TMDL Program works to reduce pollution in impaired or threatened water bodies in Texas. A TMDL is like a budget—determining how much of a particular pollutant a water body can assimilate without its quality being impaired.
While a TMDL analysis is being completed, stakeholders and other state agencies begin developing an implementation plan with the steps necessary to improve water quality.
- Projects of the TMDL Program
- News: What's happening with projects and training to keep our waterways clean
- Calendar of TMDL Stakeholder Meetings
- TMDLs and How They Are Implemented
What TMDLs are and how TCEQ and stakeholders make a difference in the quality of our waterways - Participating in TMDL Projects
How to get involved in your watershed - Developing TMDL Projects
Guidelines for organizations that develop or implement TMDLs for Texas waterways - Preserving and Improving Water Quality
An overview of how the TCEQ defines, measures, evaluates, and manages the quality of surface waters in Texas - Hydrography Maps and Data
The Atlas of Texas Surface Waters and GIS data for classified segments and other hydrology layers - Join the TMDL News e-mail list
Receive notices about TMDLs and I-Plans being developed, training, grant opportunities, and requests for proposals - For More Information
Call 512-239-6682, or send us an e-mail at tmdl@tceq.texas.gov.




