How well are the Best Management Practices (BMPs) working to bring the water body back into compliance?
Where TMDLs are not met, stakeholders must develop watershed management plans that include BMPs designed to improve water quality. Monitoring is required to determine which BMPs are actually effective in improving water quality and to assess their degree of effectiveness. Although this can require a long-term commitment to high-quality discrete and continuous monitoring, the alternative is not knowing if implemented BMPs are actually working as intended to improve water quality. Without this information on BMP effectiveness, time and money may be wasted with little or no benefit to the water body.
