Literature Review

Federal Docs (EPA)

• Sediment TMDL Guidance
• Recent EPA Guidance attempts
• Other state's sediment TMDL targets

WQS

• Other state's narrative guidance
• Other state's turbidity standards

Sediment Guidance

• Other state's guidance, or "guidelines"
• British Columbia
• Technical Docs
  
  Macros

• Sediment effects on macros
• Sediment specific metrics (tolerance)
• Macros as indicators of sediment
• Sediment threshold levels for macros
• Leaf packs, functional feeding groups

Sediment Transport

• Clean sediment TMDL sediment transport targets
• Sediment rating curves- modeling, prediction
• Sediment transport rates
• Bedload, total load calculations
• Sediment transport reference conditions
• DO, temperature

Geomorphology

• EMAP approach
• Rosgen
• Full habitat suite of indicators
• Stability metrics
• GIS landscape models

Federal Docs

• EMAP West (EPA), Physical Habitat Assessment in the EMAP Western Pilot, Phil Kaufmann, January 2003
• Strategy for Water Quality Standards and Criteria, Setting Priorities to Strengthen the Foundation for Protecting and Restoring the Nation's Waters, USEPA, Office of Science and Technology
• Ecological and Toxicological Effects of Suspended and Bedded Sediments on Aquatic Habitats, A Concise Review for Developing Water Quality Criteria for Suspended and Bedded Sediments (SABS), Mitra N. Jha, Ph.D., Bill Swietlik, Ph.D. 2003
• Developing Water Quality Criteria for Suspended and Bedded Sediments (SABS), Potential Approaches, A USEPA Science Advisory Board Consultation, Draft. August 2003
• Developing Water Quality Criteria for Suspended and Bedded Sediments (SABS), Results from USEPA and Science Advisory Board Consultation, Mitra N. Jha, Ph.D
• Managing Turbidity and Suspended and Embedded Sediments - EPA Office of Water's Perspective, Bill Swietlik, Ph.D. 2003
• Federal Interagency Sedimentation Project (FISP), US Army Corp of Engineers
• Minutes of the Subcommittee on Sedimentation, March 17, 2003, USGS National Center, Reston, VA
• Sediment Targets Used or Proposed for TMDLs, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality
• Guide to Selection of Sediment Targets for Use in Idaho TMDLs, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Tetra-Tech
• Assessment of Sediment Injury In the West Branch of the Grand Calumet River
• US EPA Region 9, Noyo River, California, TMDL
• Revised Workplan for the Development of Sediment Quality Objectives for Enclosed Bays and Estuaries of California, California Environmental Protection Agency
• South Fork of Trinity River TMDL, Northern California
• Evaluation of Sediment Transport Data for Clean Sediment TMDLs, Roger Kuhnle, Andrew Simon, National Sedimentation Laboratory, USDA Agricultural Research Service
• TMDL Approvals in Montana, Montana Department of Environmental Quality
• Identification of Water Quality Indicators and Target Values, US EPA Protocol for Developing Sediment TMDLs
• Sediment Targets Used or Proposed for TMDLs, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality, Tetra Tech

WQS

• Narrative Bottom Deposits/Clean Sediment Standard Implementation Procedures, Arizona Department of Environmental Quality
• Ambient Water Quality Guidelines (Criteria) for Turbidity, Suspended and Benthic Sediments, Water Management Branch, Environment and Resource Division, Ministry of Environment, Lands and Parks, British Columbia

Sediment Guidance

• Water Body Assessment Guidance, Idaho Department of Environmental Quality. 2002 Final Edition
• Protocol for the Assessment of Stream Bottom Deposits on Wadable Streams, New Mexico Environment Department, Surface Water Quality Bureau
• Biomonitoring Program, Watershed Management Bureau, New Hampshire Department of Environmental Sciences
• Sedimentation Studies and Monitoring Network, USGS Programs in Illinois
• Erosion and Sedimentation, The Changing Illinois Environment: Critical Trends, Vol 2, Water Resources, Critical Trends Assessment Project
• Water Quality Indicators, Surface Water Ambient Monitoring Program, California Environmental Protection Agency

Technical Docs
Sediment Transport

• Sediment Transport and Geomorphology Issues in the Water Resources Division, G.F. Koltun, M.N. Landers, K.M. Nolan, and R.S. Parker, USGS Office of Surface Water Techniques Workshop
• Sediment Delivery by Ungaged Tributaries of the Colorado River in Grand Canyon, USGS Fact Sheet 018-01, Robert H. Webb, Peter G. Griffiths
• An Evaluation of Techniques for Measuring Substrate Embeddedness, Traci Sylte, Craig Fischenich, USFS Streamnotes
• Techniques for Measuring Substrate Embeddedness, ERDC TN-EMRRP-SR-36
• Sampling Bedload Transport in Coarse-Grained Mountain Channels using Portable Samplers, Proceedings of the Federal Interagency Workshop, Sediment Technology for the 21st Century, USGS Office of Surface Water
• Recent Sedimentation Rates in the Finger Lakes Complex of the Upper Mississippi River System, Pete Boma, James Rogala, USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
• An In-situ Sediment Penetrometer for the Characterization of Sediment Type and Bottom Dynamic Conditions, Robert Gaugush, USGS Upper Midwest Environmental Sciences Center
• River Sediment Measurement and Sediment Discharge, Sediment Transport in ESSP 460
• Bedload, Bedforms and Sediment Rating Curves, and Total Load, www.ocean.washington.edu
• Taking Turbidity Measurements, GLEI, A Multi-Agency project funded by US EPA's STAR Program
• Estimating Sediment Transport Rates in Gravel-Bed Rivers, Peter Wilcock, Johns Hopkins University
• The Use of Rating (Transport) Curves to Predict Suspended Sediment Concentration: A Matter of Temporal Resolution, Arthur Horowitz, USGS Atlanta, GA
• The Use of Sediment Rating Curves for Monitoring Suspended Sediment Concentrations and Fluxes, Arthur Horowitz, USGS Atlanta, GA
• Reference and Enhanced Rates of Suspended-Sediment Transport for Use in Developing Clean-Sediment TMDL's: Examples from Mississippi and the Southeastern United States, Arthur Simon, Roger Kuhnle, Wendy Dickerson, USDA-Agricultural Research, National Sedimentation Laboratory

Geomorphology

• Linking Watershed Characteristics with Flow Regime and Geomorphic Content to Diagnose Water Quality Impairment at Multiple Spatiotemporal Scales, N. LeRoy Poff, CSU, Brian Bledsoe, CSU, Jorge Ramirez, CSU, Dennis Dean, CSU
• Developing a Reference Sediment Transport Relationship, C.A. Troendle, MATCOM, D.L. Rosgen, Wildland Hydrology, S.E. Ryan, USDA Forest Service, L.S. Porth, USDA Forest Service, J.M. Nankervis, Blue Mountain Consultants
• Water Resources Research Institute Annual Technical Report, Alabama Water Resources Research Institute
• A Hierarchical River Stability/Watershed-Based Sediment Assessment Methodology, David Rosgen, Ph.D., Wildland Hydrology

  Macros

• Environmental Consequences, Mountaintop Mining Valley Fill EIS
• Allen Brook TMDL, Vermont Department of Environmental Conservation
• Leaf Packs: Stream Ecology
• A Refined Rapid Bioassessment Protocol for Benthic Macro-Invertebrates for Use in Peninsular Indian Streams and Rivers, K.G. Sivaramakrishnan
• Central Plains Aquatic Bioassessment And Biocriteria Symposium, A Symposium on Aquatic Issues of the Central Plains, University of Kansas, USEPA Region 7
• Freshwater Benthic Macroinvertebrates: What the Hellgrammite are They and Who the Snail Cares?, Charles M. Watson
• Link Between EPT and Sediment Load, Biomonitoring, Clean Sediment, Literature Review
• Fisheries Impact Assessment, EIA, Hong Kong
• Benthic Macro-Invertebrate Population Difference Between Sand and Cobble Substrates in the Arroyo Seco Watershed, Suzanne Gilmore, Central Coast Watershed Studies (CcoWS), The Watershed Institute, California State University, Monterey Bay
• Ecosystem Assessment and Restoration, USEPA Office of Research and Development
• Stream Insects as Bioindicators of Fine Sediment, Christina Relyea, G. Minshall, Robert Danehy, Stream Ecology Center, Department of Biological Sciences, Idaho State University
• Effects of Sedimentation on Benthic Macroinvertebrates in Forested Northern Appalachian Streams, Michael Kaller, Master's Thesis, College of Agriculture, Forestry, and Consumer Sciences, West Virginia University
• Effects of Deposited Sediment on Stream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Communities, Leanna Zweig, Master's Thesis, University of Missouri-Columbia
• Calibration of a Habitat Sedimentation Indicator for Use in Measuring the Effectiveness of Watershed Restoration Treatments, G.A. Larkin, P.A. Slaney, Watershed Restoration Management Report No.5, British Columbia
• An Investigation of the Relationships Between Stream Benthic Macroinvertebrate Assemblage Conditions and Their Stressors, Laurie Frondorf, Master's Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University