Lawriter - OAC - Chapter 3745-1 Water Quality Standards

(A) It is the purpose of these water quality standards, Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code, to establish minimum water quality requirements for all surface waters of the state, thereby protecting public health and welfare; and to enhance, improve and maintain water quality as provided under the laws of the state of Ohio, section 6111.041 of the Revised Code, the federal Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. section 1251 et seq., and rules adopted thereunder.

(B) Whenever two or more use designations apply to the same surface water, the more stringent criteria of each use designation will apply.

(C) These water quality standards will apply to all surface waters of the state except as provided in paragraph (D), (E), or (F) of this rule. Compliance schedules may be granted pursuant to rule 3745-33-05 of the Administrative Code.

(D) These water quality standards will not apply to water bodies when the flow is less than the critical low-flow values determined in rule 3745-2-05 of the Administrative Code.

(E) The following exceptions will apply only to the specific water quality criteria involved in each case for a reasonable period of time as determined by the director.

(1) Whenever chemicals are applied for control of aquatic plants or animals, notice must be given to the director before chemicals are applied. The director, upon receiving such notice, may order that chemicals not be applied if he concludes that the proposed application would pose an unreasonable danger to human or aquatic life. The application of pesticides registered under the Federal Insecticide. Fungicide and Rodenticide Act ( 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.) are permitted without notification to the director when:

(a) The pesticide is applied in accordance with label instructions; and

(i) The application is to a pond or lake with a surface area equal to or less than five acres; and

(ii) The application is not within one mile upstream of a public water supply intake or within one mile of a reservoir public water supply intake; and

(iii) The application is not to any wetland, borrow pit, quarry or water body used for public swimming.

(b) The pesticide is applied under the direction of a local health department or other government agency in a mosquito abatement program.

(2) Whenever dredging or construction activities occur on or near water bodies or during the period of time when the aftereffects of dredging or construction activities degrade water quality and such activities have been authorized by the United States army corps of engineers and/or by a 401 water quality certification or an isolated wetland permit issued by the Ohio environmental protection agency.

(3) Whenever coal remining permits are issued pursuant to section 301(p) of the act. This exception applies to pH, iron and manganese for the duration of the remining activity. This exception applies only if: there is a demonstrated potential for improved water quality from the remining operation; and no degradation of existing instream conditions occurs.

(F) Temporary variances. The director may grant temporary variances from compliance with water quality criteria applicable by this chapter pursuant to rule 3745-33-07 of the Administrative Code.

Eff 2-14-78; 4-4-85; 5-1-90; 10-31-97; 4-17-01 (Emer.); 12-30-02

Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03

Rule authorized by: RC 6111.041

Rule amplifies: RC 6111.041

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 3/25/2002 and 12/30/2007

(A) Acronyms and abbreviations used in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code shall be defined as listed below.

AAC Acute aquatic criterion

AAV Acute aquatic value

ACR Acute-chronic ratio

ADE Acceptable daily exposure

BAF Bioaccumulation factor

BCC Bioaccumulative chemical of concern

BCF Bioconcentration factor

BSAF Biota-sediment accumulation factor

BW Body weight

CAC Chronic aquatic criterion

CAV Chronic aquatic value

CBOD 5 Five-day carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand

CCC Criterion continuous concentration

C.F.R. Code of federal regulations

CMC Criterion maximum concentration

DOC Dissolved organic carbon

ECBP Eastern corn belt plains ecoregion

EC 50 Median effective concentration

EOLP Erie/Ontario lake plain ecoregion

EPA Environmental protection agency

FACR Final acute-chronic ratio

FAV Final acute value

FCM Food-chain multiplier

FCV Final chronic value

FPV Final plant value

GMAV Genus mean acute value

GMCV Genus mean chronic value

HCC Human cancer criterion

HCV Human cancer value

HELP Huron/Erie lake plain ecoregion

HNC Human noncancer criterion

HNV Human noncancer value

IMZM Inside mixing zone maximum

IP Interior plateau ecoregion

IRIS Integrated risk information system

K OW Octanol-water partition coefficient

LC 50 Median lethal concentration

ln Natural logarithm

LOAEL Lowest observed adverse effect level

log Base ten logarithm

MF Membrane filter

MPN Most probable number

NIPDWR National interim primary drinking water regulations

NOAEL No observed adverse effect level

NPDES National pollutant discharge elimination system

OMZA Outside mixing zone average

OMZM Outside mixing zone maximum

POC Particulate organic carbon

POTW Publicly owned treatment works

q 1* Cancer slope factor

RAD Risk associated dose

RSC Relative source contribution

S Soluble

SACR Secondary acute-chronic ratio

SAF Secondary acute factor

SAR Structure-activity relationship

SAV Secondary acute value

SMAV Species mean acute value

SMCV Species mean chronic value

T Total

TD Test dose

temp Temperature

TL Trophic level

TR Total recoverable

UF Uncertainty factor

U.S.C. United States Code

WAP Western Allegheny plateau ecoregion

WV Wildlife value

(B) Technical words used in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code shall be defined as listed below.

(1) “Acceptable daily exposure” or “ADE” means an estimate of the maximum daily dose of a substance which is not expected to result in adverse noncancer effects to the general human population, including sensitive subgroups.

(2) “Act” means the federal Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq. (as amended).

(3) “Acute aquatic criterion” or “AAC” means the Ohio EPA estimation of the highest instream concentration of a chemical to which aquatic organisms can be exposed for a brief period of time without causing mortality.

(4) “Acute-chronic ratio” or “ACR” means a standard measure of the acute toxicity of a material divided by an appropriate measure of the chronic toxicity of the same material under comparable conditions.

(5) “Acute toxicity” means adverse effects that result from an acute exposure and occur within any short observation period which begins when the exposure begins, and usually does not constitute a substantial portion of the life span of the organism.

(6) “Adverse effect” means any deleterious effect to organisms due to exposure to a substance. This includes effects which are or may become debilitating, harmful or toxic to the normal functions of the organism, but does not include non-harmful effects such as tissue discoloration alone or the induction of enzymes involved in the metabolism of the substance.

(7) “Ambient water temperature” means the spatial (longitudinal, lateral and vertical) and temporal water temperature measured in the receiving body of water prior to a specific waste heat discharge, and is outside the influence of any thermal mixing zone.

(8) “Average temperature” represents the arithmetic mean of multiple daily average temperatures over a consecutive fifteen- or thirty-day period.

(9) “Baseline BAF” means:

(a) For organic chemicals, a BAF that is based on the concentration of freely dissolved chemical in the ambient water and takes into account the partitioning of the chemical within the organism; and

(b) For inorganic chemicals, a BAF that is based on the wet weight of the tissue.

(10) “Baseline BCF” means:

(a) For organic chemicals, a BCF that is based on the concentration of freely dissolved chemical in the ambient water and takes into account the partitioning of the chemical within the organism; and

(b) For inorganic chemicals, a BCF that is based on the wet weight of the tissue.

(11) “Bioaccumulation” means the net accumulation of a substance by an organism as a result of uptake from all environmental sources.

(12) “Bioaccumulation factor” or “BAF” means the ratio (in 1/kg) of a substance’s concentration in the tissue of an aquatic organism to its concentration in the ambient water, in situations where both the organism and its food are exposed and the ratio does not change substantially over time.

(13) “Bioaccumulative chemical of concern” or “BCC” is any chemical that has the potential to cause adverse effects which, upon entering the surface waters, by itself or as its toxic transformation product, accumulates in aquatic organisms by a human health bioaccumulation factor greater than one thousand, after considering metabolism and other physicochemical properties that might enhance or inhibit bioaccumulation, calculated in accordance with the methodology in rule 3745-1-37 of the Administrative Code. Chemicals with half-lives of less than eight weeks in the water column, sediment, and biota are not BCCs. The minimum BAF information needed to define an organic chemical as a BCC is either a field-measured BAF or a BAF derived using the BSAF methodology. The minimum BAF information needed to define an inorganic chemical, including an organometal, as a BCC is either a field-measured BAF or a laboratory-measured BCF. Bioaccumulative chemicals of concern include, but are not limited to, chlordane, 4,4’-DDD (p,p’-DDD, 4,4’-TDE, p,p’-TDE), 4,4’-DDE (p,p’-DDE), 4,4’-DDT (p,p’-DDT), dieldrin, hexachlorobenzene, hexachlorobutadiene (hexachloro-1,3-butadiene), hexachlorocyclohexanes (BHCs), alpha-hexachlorocyclohexane (alpha-BHC), beta-hexachlorocyclohexane (beta-BHC), delta-hexachlorocyclohexane (delta-BHC), lindane (gamma-hexachlorocyclohexane, gamma-BHC), mercury, mirex, octachlorostyrene, PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), pentachlorobenzene, photomirex, 2,3,7,8-TCDD (dioxin), 1,2,3,4-tetrachlorobenzene, 1,2,4,5-tetrachlorobenzene, and toxaphene.

(14) “Bioconcentration” means the net accumulation of a substance by an aquatic organism as a result of uptake directly from the ambient water through gill membranes or other external body surfaces.

(15) “Bioconcentration factor” or “BCF” means the ratio (in 1/kg) of a substance’s concentration in the tissue of an aquatic organism to its concentration in the ambient water, in situations where the organism is exposed through the water only and the ratio does not change substantially over time.

(16) “Biota-sediment accumulation factor” or “BSAF” means the ratio (in kg of organic carbon/kg of lipid) of a substance’s lipid-normalized concentration in the tissue of an aquatic organism to its organic carbon-normalized concentration in surface sediment, in situations where the ratio does not change substantially over time, both the organism and its food are exposed, and the surface sediment is representative of average surface sediment in the vicinity of the organism.

(17) “& 176;C” means degree(s) Celsius.

(18) “Carcinogen” means a substance which causes an increased incidence of benign or malignant neoplasms, or substantially decreases the time to develop neoplasms, in animals or humans. The classification of carcinogens is discussed in rule 3745-1-38 of the Administrative Code.

(19) “Chronic aquatic criterion” or “CAC” means the Ohio EPA estimation of the highest instream concentration of a chemical to which aquatic organisms can be exposed indefinitely without causing unacceptable effects (e.g., adverse effects on growth or reproduction)

(20) “Chronic toxicity” means concurrent and delayed adverse effects that occur only as a result of a chronic exposure. Chronic exposure is exposure of an organism for any long period or for a substantial portion of its life span.

(21) “Coldwater fish” means those species of fish that thrive in relatively cold water. These species include, but are not limited to, salmon and trout (Salmonidae), and may include sculpins (Cottidae), and certain minnow (Cyprinidae) species.

(22) “Confluence” means the point where two or more bodies of water flow together.

(23) “Criteria” mean elements of water quality standards, expressed as constituent concentrations, levels, or narrative statements, representing a quality of water that supports a particular designated use.

(24) “Criterion continuous concentration” or “CCC” means an estimate of the highest concentration of a material in the water column to which an aquatic community can be exposed indefinitely without resulting in an unacceptable effect.

(25) “Criterion maximum concentration” or “CMC” means an estimate of the highest concentration of a material in the water column to which an aquatic community can be exposed briefly without resulting in an unacceptable effect.

(26) “Daily average temperature” means the arithmetic mean of multiple temperature measurements to be taken at least once per hour during a twenty-four-hour day.

(27) “Degradation” means a lowering of the existing water quality in the surface waters of the state.

(28) “Depuration” means the loss of a substance from an organism as a result of any active or passive process.

(29) “Designated use” means a use of the surface waters of the state, established by the water quality standards, Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code.

(30) “Director” means the director of the Ohio environmental protection agency.

(31) “Discharge” means the addition of any pollutant to the waters of the state from a point source.

(32) “E. coli” means a specific bacterial species included in the fecal coliform bacteria group, the presence of which in surface waters has been correlated with gastrointestinal illness in swimmers.

(33) “EC 50” means the median effective concentration and is a statistically or graphically estimated concentration that is expected to cause one or more specified effects in fifty per cent of a group of organisms under specified conditions.

(34) “Estuary” means the section of a lake Erie tributary near the mouth where tributary and lake Erie waters mix. This area is characterized by flow reversals and seiche influences and is generally located between the farthest downstream riffle of the tributary and lake Erie proper. All tributaries of estuaries shall be considered estuaries below the lake Erie mean high water level.

(35) “& 176;F” means degree(s) Fahrenheit.

(36) “Fecal coliform” means the portion of the coliform group of bacteria which is present in the intestinal tract of warmblooded animals, and is evidence of the presence of human or animal wastes.

(37) “Final acute value” or “FAV” means:

(a) A calculated estimate of the concentration of a test material such that ninety-five per cent of the genera (with which acceptable acute toxicity tests have been conducted on the material) have higher GMAVs; or

(b) The SMAV of an important and/or critical species, if the SMAV is lower then the calculated estimate.

(38) “Final chronic value” or “FCV” means:

(a) A calculated estimate of the concentration of a test material such that ninety-five per cent of the genera (with which acceptable chronic toxicity tests have been conducted on the material) have higher GMCVs;

(b) The quotient of an FAV divided by an appropriate acute-chronic ratio; or

(c) The SMCV of an important and/or critical species, if the SMCV is lower than the calculated estimate or the quotient, whichever is applicable.

(39) “Final plant value” or “FPV” means the lowest plant value obtained with an important aquatic plant species in an acceptable toxicity test for which the concentrations of the test material were measured and the adverse effect was biologically important.

(40) “Food-chain multiplier” or “FCM” means the ratio of a BAF to an appropriate BCF. A food-chain multiplier is meant to account for accumulation of a chemical up the food chain attributable to predation (i.e., between successive trophic levels).

(41) “Genus mean acute value” or “GMAV” means the geometric means of the SMAVs for the genus.

(42) “Genus mean chronic value” or “GMCV” means the geometric mean of the SMCVs for the genus.

(43) “Geometric mean” means the Nth root of the product of N quantities.

(44) “Great Lakes system” means all the streams, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water within the drainage basin of the Great Lakes within the United States.

(45) “Human cancer criterion” or “HCC” is a human cancer value for a pollutant that meets the minimum data requirements for tier I as specified in rule 3745-1-38 of the Administrative Code.

(46) “Human cancer value” or “HCV” is the maximum ambient water concentration of a substance at which a lifetime of exposure from either: drinking the water, consuming fish from the water, and water-related recreation activities; or consuming fish from the water, and water-related recreation activities, will represent a plausible upper-bound risk of contracting cancer of one in one hundred thousand using the exposure assumptions specified in the methodologies for the development of human health criteria and values in rule 3745-1-38 of the Administrative Code.

(47) “Human noncancer criterion” or “HNC” is a human noncancer value for a pollutant that meets the minimum data requirements for tier I as specified in rule 3745-1-38 of the Administrative Code.

(48) “Human noncancer value” or “HNV” is the maximum ambient water concentration of a substance at which adverse noncancer effects are not likely to occur in the human population from lifetime exposure from either: drinking the water, consuming fish from the water, and water-related recreation activities; or consuming fish from the water and water-related recreation activities, using the methodologies for the development of human health criteria and values in rule 3745-1-38 of the Administrative Code.

(49) “Lake Erie drainage basin” means all the streams, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water within the drainage basin of lake Erie and within the United States.

(50) “LC 50” means the median lethal concentration and is a statistically or graphically estimated concentration that is expected to be lethal to fifty per cent of a group of organisms under specified conditions.

(51) “Linearized multistage model” means a conservative mathematical model for cancer risk assessment. This model fits linear dose-response curves to low doses. It is consistent with a no-threshold model of carcinogenesis, i.e., exposure to even a very small amount of the substance is assumed to produce a finite increased risk of cancer.

(52) “Lowest observed adverse effect level” or “LOAEL” means the lowest tested dose or concentration of a substance which results in an observed adverse effect in exposed test organisms when all higher doses or concentrations result in the same or more severe effects.

(53) “Maximum daily temperature” means the highest temperature observed in a twenty-four-hour day.

(54) “Micrograms per liter (ug/l)” means the micrograms of substance per liter of solution, and is equivalent to 10-9kilograms per liter or parts per billion, assuming unit density.

(55) “Milligrams per kilogram (mg/kg)” means the milligrams of substance per kilogram of weight.

(56) “Milligrams per liter (mg/l)” means the milligrams of substance per liter of solution, and is equivalent to 10-6kilograms per liter or parts per million, assuming unit density.

(57) “Mine drainage” means surface or groundwater flowing through or from mines and mine sites. It is usually characterized by concentrations of acidity or alkalinity, various heavy metals, sulfates, and dissolved solids.

(58) “Mixing zone” means an area of a water body contiguous to a treated or untreated wastewater discharge. The discharge is in transit and progressively diluted from the source concentration to the receiving system concentration. The mixing zone is a place where wastewater and receiving water mix, not a place where wastes are treated.

(59) “Nanograms per liter (ng/l)” means the nanograms of substance per liter of solution, and is equivalent to 10-12kilograms per liter or parts per trillion, assuming unit density.

(60) “Natural conditions” mean those conditions that are measured outside the influence of human activities.

(61) “No observed adverse effect level” or “NOAEL” means the highest tested dose or concentration of a substance which results in no observed adverse effect in exposed test organisms where higher doses or concentrations result in an adverse effect.

(62) “Nonpoint source” means any source of pollutants other than those defined as point sources.

(63) “Octanol-water partition coefficient” or “K ow” means the ratio of the concentration of a substance in the N-octanol phase to its concentration in the aqueous phase in an equilibrated two-phase octanol-water system. For log Kow, the log of the octanol-water partition coefficient is a base ten logarithm.

(64) “Ohio river drainage basin” means all the streams, rivers, lakes and other bodies of water within the drainage basin of the Ohio river.

(65) “pH” means the negative logarithm of the hydrogen ion activity concentrations when expressed as moles per liter or pH = -log(H+).

(66) “Picograms per liter (pg/1)” means the picograms of substance per liter of solution, and is equivalent to 10-15kilograms per liter or parts per quadrillion, assuming unit density.

(67) “Point source” means any discernible, confined or discrete conveyance from which a pollutant is or may be discharged to the surface waters of the state.

(68) “Pollutant” means sewage, industrial waste or other waste as defined by divisions (B) to (D) of section 6111.01 of the Revised Code.

(69) “Receiving waters” mean the surface waters of the state into which point and nonpoint sources flow.

(70) “Relative source contribution” or “RSC” means the factor (percentage) used in calculating a HNV or HNC to account for all sources of exposure to a contaminant. The RSC reflects the per cent of total exposure which can be attributed to surface water through water intake and fish consumption.

(71) “Representative aquatic species” mean those organisms, either natural or introduced, which presently exist or have existed in the surface waters of the state prior to July 1, 1977, with the exception of those banned species outlined in rule 1501:31-19-01 of the Administrative Code. In addition, it may include any species that are legally introduced into the surface waters of the state. Aquatic species designated as representative shall satisfy one or more of the following:

(a) Species which are particularly vulnerable to the existing or proposed environmental impact in question;

(b) Species which are commercially or recreationally valuable;

(c) Species which are threatened, rare, or endangered;

(d) Species which are critical to the structure and function of the aquatic community;

(e) Species whose presence is causally related to the existing or proposed environmental impact under examination;

(f) Species that are potentially capable of becoming localized nuisance species; or

(g) Species that are representative of the ecological, behavioral, and physiological requirements and characteristics of species determined in paragraphs (B)(71)(a) to (B)(71)(f) of this rule, but which themselves may not be representative.

(72) “Risk associated dose” or “RAD” means a dose of a known or presumed carcinogenic substance in (mg/kg)/day which, over a lifetime of exposure, is estimated to be associated with a plausible upper bound incremental cancer risk equal to one in one hundred thousand.

(73) “Slope factor” or “Q 1*” means the incremental rate of cancer development calculated through use of a linearized multistage model or other appropriate model. It is expressed in (mg/kg/day) of exposure to the chemical in question.

(74) “Species mean acute value” or “SMAV” means the geometric mean of the results of all acceptable flow-through acute toxicity tests (for which the concentrations of the test material were measured) with the most sensitive tested life stage of the species. For a species for which no such result is available for the most sensitive tested life stage, the SMAV is the geometric mean of the results of all acceptable acute toxicity tests with the most sensitive tested life stage.

(75) “Species mean chronic value” or “SMCV” means the geometric mean of the results of all acceptable life-cycle and partial life-cycle toxicity tests with the species; for a species of fish for which no such result is available, the SMCV is the geometric mean of all acceptable early life-stage tests.

(76) “Structure-activity relationship” or “SAR” means a mathematical relationship between a property (i.e., biological activity or response) of a chemical and a number of descriptors of the chemical. These descriptors are chemical or physical characteristics obtained experimentally or predicted from the structure of the chemical.

(77) “Surface waters of the state” or “water bodies” mean all streams, lakes, reservoirs, ponds, marshes, wetlands or other waterways which are situated wholly or partially within the boundaries of the state, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural surface or underground waters. Waters defined as sewerage system, treatment works or disposal system in section 6111.01 of the Revised Code are not included.

(78) “Thermal mixing zone” means that portion of a water body into which waste heat is discharged and assimilated, and within which the average and maximum daily average temperatures do not apply, except as prescribed by this chapter.

(79) “Threatened or endangered species” mean those species of the state’s biota which are threatened with statewide extirpation or national extinction, as listed in rule 1501:31-23-01 of the Administrative Code or 50 C.F.R. 17 or that are listed as endangered or threatened under section 4 of the Endangered Species Act, 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.(as amended).

(80) “Threshold effect” means an effect of a substance for which there is a theoretical or empirically established dose or concentration below which the effect does not occur.

(81) “Tier I criteria” mean numeric values derived by use of the tier I methodologies specified in rules 3745-1-36, 3745-1-38 and 3745-1-39 of the Administrative Code, that either have been adopted as numeric criteria into a water quality standard or are used to implement narrative water quality criteria.

(82) “Tier II values” means numeric values derived by use of the tier II methodologies specified in rules 3745-1-36 and 3745-1-38 of the Administrative Code that are used to implement narrative water quality criteria.

(83) “Toxic substances” mean any substances which can cause death, disease, behavioral abnormalities, cancer, genetic mutations, physiological or reproductive malfunction or physical deformities in any organism or its offspring, or which can become poisonous after concentration in the food chain or in combination with other substances.

(84) “Tributary” means a stream flowing into a larger body of water.

(85) “Uncertainty factor” or “UF” means one of several numeric factors used in operationally deriving criteria from experimental data to account for the quality or quantity of the available data.

(86) “Uptake” means acquisition of a substance from the environment by an organism as a result of any active or passive process.

(87) “Use attainability analysis” means a structured scientific assessment of the factors affecting the attainment of the use which may include physical, chemical, biological, and economic factors.

(88) “Warmwater fish” means those species of fish that inhabit relatively warm water. These species include, but are not limited to, bass; crappies and sunfish (Centrarchidae), and catfish (Ictaluridae), and may include certain suckers (Catostomidae), minnows (Cyprinidae), and perch and darter (Percidae) species.

(89) “Water quality standards” means the rules set forth in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code establishing stream use designations and water quality criteria protective of such uses for the surface waters of the state.

(90) “Wetlands” means those areas that are inundated or saturated by surface or ground water at a frequency and duration that are sufficient to support, and that under normal circumstances do support, a prevalence of vegetation typically adapted for life in saturated soil conditions. “Wetlands” includes swamps, marshes, bogs, and similar areas that are delineated in accordance with the 1987 United States army corps of engineers wetland delineation manual and any other procedures and requirements adopted by the United States army corps of engineers for delineating wetlands.

Eff 2-14-78; 4-4-85; 8-19-85; 5-1-90; 10-31-97; 12-30-02

Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03

Rule authorized by: RC 6111.041

Rule amplifies: RC 6111.041

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 3/25/2002 and 12/30/2007

(A) Analytical methods.

(1) All methods of analysis used in applying any of the chemical-specific and bacteriological criteria in this chapter shall be in accordance with those prescribed in 40 C.F.R. 136, “Manual of Ohio EPA Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures, Volumes I, II and III,” and “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater,” as cited in paragraph (B) of this rule.

(2) All methods of sample collection and preservation used in applying any of the chemical-specific and bacteriological criteria in this chapter shall be in accordance with “Manual of Ohio EPA Surveillance Methods and Quality Assurance Practices” as cited in paragraph (B) of this rule.

(3) Methods for conducting whole-effluent toxicity tests shall be in accordance with those prescribed in 40 C.F.R. 136 and “Manual of Ohio EPA Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures, Volume IV,” as cited in paragraph (B) of this rule.

(4) Mixing zones for thermal discharges will be determined in accordance with “Guidelines for the Submittal of Demonstrations Pursuant to Sections 316(a) and 316(b) of the Clean Water Act and Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code,” as cited in paragraph (B) of this rule.

(5) Methods, data collection and data analysis requirements for applying the biological criteria in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code shall be in accordance with”Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life,” and “Manual of Ohio EPA Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures, Volumes I, II, III and IV,” as cited in paragraph (B) of this rule.

(B) Availability of documents. The following documents are cited in this chapter.

(1) Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) references. The Code of Federal Regulations can generally be found in public libraries, and can be viewed electronically online at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/cfr/index.html and purchased by writing to: “Superintendent of Documents. Attn: New Orders, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.” The regulations listed in this paragraph are those effective June 1, 2007.

(a) 40 C.F.R. 124.8, “Procedures for Decisionmaking, Subpart A – General Program Requirements – Fact Sheet.”

(b) 40 C.F.R. 124.56, “Procedures for Decisionmaking, Subpart D – Specific Procedures Applicable to NPDES Permits – Fact Sheets.”

(c) 40 C.F.R. 131, “Water Quality Standards.”

(d) 40 C.F.R. 136, “Guidelines Establishing Test Procedures for the Analysis of Pollutants.”

(e) 40 C.F.R. 230.10, “Section 404(b)(1) Guidelines for Specification of Disposal Sites for Dredged or Fill Material – Restrictions on discharge.”

(f) 40 C.F.R. 400 to 40 C.F.R. 471, “Subchapter N – Effluent Guidelines and Standards.”

(g) 50 C.F.R. 17, “Endangered and Threatened Wildlife and Plants.”

(2) Federal statute references. These laws can generally be found in public libraries, and can be viewed electronically online at http://www.gpoaccess.gov/uscode/index.html and purchased by writing to: “Superintendent of Documents. Attn: New Orders, PO Box 371954, Pittsburgh, PA 15250-7954.” The laws listed in this paragraph are those as amended through June 1, 2007.

(a) “Federal Water Pollution Control Act (commonly referred to as the Clean Water Act),” 33 U.S.C. 1251 et seq.

(b) “Endangered Species Act,” 16 U.S.C. 1531 et seq.

(c) “Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act,” 7 U.S.C. 136 et seq.

(d) “Safe Drinking Water Act,” 42 U.S.C. 300f et seq.

(3) Other references. The availability of these documents is provided with each paragraph.

(a) “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life.” These documents are available on the internet at http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/bioassess/BioCriteriaProtAqLife.html.

(i) “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume I: The Role of Biological Data in Water Quality Assessment, Ohio EPA, Ecological Assessment Section, Division of Water Quality Planning & Assessment, July 24, 1987, updated February 15, 1988.”

(ii) “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume II: Users Manual for Biological Field Assessment of Ohio Surface Waters, Ohio EPA, Ecological Assessment Section, Division of Water Quality Planning & Assessment, October 30, 1987, updated January 1, 1988, amended September 30, 1989, updated November 8, 2006.”

(iii) “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume III: Standardized Biological Field Sampling and Laboratory Methods for Assessing Fish and Macroinvertebrate Communities, Ohio EPA, Ecological Assessment Section, Division of Water Quality Planning & Assessment, September 30, 1989, updated November 8, 2006.”

(iv) “The Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index [QHEI]: Rationale, Methods, and Application, Ohio EPA, Ecological Assessment Section, Division of Water Quality Planning & Assessment, November 6, 1989.”

(v) Methods for Assessing Habitat in Flowing Waters: Using the Qualitative Habitat Evaluation Index (QHEI), Ohio EPA Technical Bulletin EAS/2006-06-1, Ohio EPA, Division of Surface Water, June 2006.”

(b) “Corps of Engineers Wetlands Delineation Manual, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Wetlands Research Program Technical Report Y-87-1, January 1987.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.lrh.usace.army.mil/permits/wetlands/.

(c) “Guidance for Water Quality-based Decisions and the TMDL Process, U.S. EPA Office of Water, EPA 440/4-91-001, April 1991.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/pc/watqual.html.

(d) “Guidelines for Carcinogen Risk Assessment, Risk Assessment Forum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA/630/P-03/001F, March 2005.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.gov/iris/backgr-d.htm.

(e) “Guidelines for the Submittal of Demonstrations Pursuant to Sections 316(a) and 316(b) of the Clean Water Act and Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Division of Industrial Wastewater, September 30, 1978.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/guidance/guidance.html.

(f) “Manual of Ohio EPA Laboratory Standard Operating Procedures, Volumes I, II, III and IV, 2002.” These documents are available from “Ohio EPA, Division of Environmental Services, 8995 East Main Street, Building 22, Reynoldsburg, Ohio 43068.”

(g) “Manual of Ohio EPA Surveillance Methods and Quality Assurance Practices 2006, Ohio EPA, Division of Surface Water, Division of 3745-1-03 3 Environmental Services.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.state.oh.us/dsw/document_index/docindx.html.

(h) “Methodology for Deriving Ambient Water Quality Criteria for the Protection of Human Health (2000), Office of Science and Technology, Office of Water, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC, EPA-822-B-00-004, October 2000.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/criteria/humanhealth/method/index.html.

(i) “Recommendations for and Documentation of Biological Values for Use in Risk Assessment (U.S. EPA, 1988), EPA/600/6-87/008.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.gov/iris/backgr-d.htm.

(j) “Registry of Toxic Effects of Chemical Substances (National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, Cincinnati, Ohio, July 1997).” This document is available on the internet at http://0-www.cdc.gov.mill1.sjlibrary.org/niosh/97-119.html.

(k) “Standard Methods for the Examination of Water and Wastewater, 21st Edition, American Public Health Association, American Water Works Association and Water Environment Federation, 2005.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.standardmethods.org/.

(l) “Standard Practice for Conducting Bioconcentration Tests with Fishes and Saltwater Bivalve Molluscs. Standard E 1022. Molluscs. Designation E 1022 – 84. Pages 606-622. American Society for Testing and Materials, Philadelphia, PA. (1990).” This document is available on the internet at www.astm.org.

(m) “Water Quality Standards Handbook, U.S. EPA Office of Water, EPA-823-B-94-005, August 1994.” This document is available on the internet at http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/standards/policy.htm.

(n) “The Wildlife Exposure Factors Handbook (U.S. EPA, 1993), EPA/600/R-93/187.” This document is available on the internet at http://cfpub.epa.gov/ncea/cfm/recordisplay.cfm?deid=2799.

Replaces: 3745-1-03

Effective: 10/05/2007

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 10/05/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 2/14/1978, 4/4/1985, 5/1/1990, 7/31/1999

The following general water quality criteria shall apply to all surface waters of the state including mixing zones. To every extent practical and possible as determined by the director, these waters shall be:

(A) Free from suspended solids or other substances that enter the waters as a result of human activity and that will settle to form putrescent or otherwise objectionable sludge deposits, or that will adversely affect aquatic life;

(B) Free from floating debris, oil, scum and other floating materials entering the waters as a result of human activity in amounts sufficient to be unsightly or cause degradation;

(C) Free from materials entering the waters as a result of human activity producing color, odor or other conditions in such a degree as to create a nuisance;

(D) Free from substances entering the waters as a result of human activity in concentrations that are toxic or harmful to human, animal or aquatic life and/or are rapidly lethal in the mixing zone;

(E) Free from nutrients entering the waters as a result of human activity in concentrations that create nuisance growths of aquatic weeds and algae.-;

(F) Free from public health nuisances associated with raw or poorly treated sewage. A public heath nuisance shall be deemed to exist when the conditions set forth in paragraph (F)(1) of this rule are demonstrated.

(1) An inspection conducted by, or under the supervision of, Ohio EPA or a sanitarian registered under Chapter 4736. Of the Revised Code documents odor, color and/or other visual manifestations of raw or poorly treated sewage; and

(A) Water samples exceed five thousand fecal coliform counts per one hundred milliliters (either MPN or MF) in two or more samples when five or fewer samples are collected, or in more than twenty per cent of the samples when more than five samples are taken; or

(B) Water samples exceed five hundred seventy-six E. Coli counts per one hundred milliliters in two or more samples when five or fewer samples are collected, or in more than twenty per cent of the samples when more than five samples are taken.

(2) Paragraph (F)(1) of this rule may be used by the appropriate authorities to document the existence of unsanitary conditions as described in section 6117.34 of the Revised Code, but does not preclude the use of other evidence of unsanitary conditions for the purposes described in section 6117.34 of the Revised Code.

(G) For the purposes of applying paragraph (F) of this rule the collection of water samples shall adhere to the following specifications:

(1) The samples shall be collected when flow is representative of steady state dry weather conditions, i.e., base flow or delayed flow, and

(2) The samples shall be collected at least two hours apart, and

(3) The samples shall be collected over a time period not to exceed thirty days.

(H) Nothing in paragraph (f) or (g) of this rule shall limit or otherwise change the applicability of paragraphs (a) to (e) of this rule.

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 03/29/2007 and 03/29/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 2/14/1978, 4/4/1985, 10/15/1998

[Comment: For dates of non-regulatory government publications, publications of recognized organizations and associations, federal rules and federal statutory provisions referenced in this rule, see rule 3745-1-03 of the Administrative Code.]

(A) Definitions.

[Comment: The following definitions are in addition to the definitions contained in rule 3745-1-02 of the Administrative Code.]

(1) “Available pollutant assimilative capacity” means the water body pollutant assimilative capacity for a substance, as determined in paragraph (A)(28)(a) of this rule, minus the background pollutant load, or the quantity for a substance as calculated in paragraph (A)(28)(b) of this rule.

(2) “Background pollutant load” means the sum of all upstream pollutant loads of a regulated pollutant and has the same meaning as the background water quality as determined in accordance with paragraph (A)(3) of rule 3745-2-05 of the Administrative Code.

(3) “Best available demonstrated control technology” means a wastewater treatment capable of meeting the following effluent limitations or design criteria.

(a) For the discharge of sanitary wastewater from facilities using conventional treatment technologies, the effluent limitations in table 5-1 of this rule.

(b) For the discharge of sanitary wastewater from alternative treatment technologies such as lagoon systems, land application and controlled discharge systems, constructed wetland systems or combined sewer overflow control systems effluent limitations shall be developed on a case-by-case basis.

(c) For industrial direct discharges subject to federal effluent guidelines, the facility shall be designed to meet the most stringent of the new source performance standards, best conventional pollutant control technology, best available technology economically achievable and best practicable control technology currently available for the appropriate categorical guidelines of 40 C.F.R. 400 to 40 C.F.R. 471.

(d) For categorical industrial indirect dischargers, the facility shall be designed to meet categorical pretreatment standards for existing sources or categorical pretreatment standards for new sources as contained in Chapter 3745-3 of the Administrative Code.

(e) For non-categorical industrial direct or indirect discharges, effluent limitations will be developed based upon best engineering or professional judgment.

(f) For wastewater discharges resulting from clean-up of response action sites contaminated with volatile organic compounds, the facility shall include air-stripping, carbon columns, both, or equivalent treatment capable of achieving final thirty-day average effluent limits of five micrograms per liter or less for each individually regulated volatile organic compound.

(4) “Control document” means any authorization issued by a state or federal agency to any source of pollutants to waters under its jurisdiction that specifies conditions under which the source is allowed to operate.

(5) “Declining fish species” mean those species listed in table 5-2 of this rule. Declining fish species are native species that have declined in distribution across Ohio based on collection records since 1978 compared to historical distributions of fish species.

(6) “Designated uses” mean those uses assigned in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code for a water body or segment whether or not those uses are being attained. Specific designated uses are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code.

(7) “Director” means the director of the Ohio environmental protection agency, or the director of the Ohio department of agriculture for projects or activities governed under Chapter 903. of the Revised Code.

(8) “Existing uses” mean those uses actually attained in the water body on or after November 28, 1975.

(9) “Existing source” means any treatment works or disposal system, and its associated treatment or production capacity that:

(a) Was built, operational and discharging prior to July 1, 1993; or

(b) Was authorized by a permit to install or national pollutant discharge elimination system permit issued after July 1, 1993.

An individual or a collection of several household sewage treatment systems does not constitute an existing source.

(10) “High quality waters” mean all surface waters of the state except limited quality waters. Pursuant to division (A)(2) of section 6111.12 of the Revised Code, four categories of high quality waters are hereby recognized and described in this paragraph. Categorizations of specific water bodies shall follow the procedures in paragraph (E) of this rule.

(a) “General high quality waters” are wetlands categorized as category 2 or 3 in accordance with rule 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code and other surface waters that are not specifically categorized limited quality waters, superior high quality waters, outstanding state waters, or outstanding national resource waters.

(b) “Superior high quality waters” are surface waters that possess exceptional ecological values and that have been so categorized pursuant to paragraph (E) of this rule. Except as provided below, exceptional ecological values shall be assessed based upon a combination of the presence of threatened or endangered species and a high level of biological integrity. The following factors shall be considered in determining exceptional ecological value: providing habitat for Ohio or federal endangered species; providing habitat for Ohio threatened species; harboring stable populations of a declining fish species that coincide with the presence of suitable habitat for that species, or that coincide with an essential migration path between areas of suitable habitat for that species; and displaying a level of biological integrity equivalent to the exceptional warmwater habitat index of biotic integrity or invertebrate community index criteria values listed in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code.

Water bodies that exhibit a pattern of biological integrity equivalent to index of biotic integrity and, where applicable, invertebrate community index scores of fifty-six or greater at most sites are characteristic of a near-pristine aquatic habitat. Such waters, as well as other ecologically unique water bodies that have essentially undisturbed native faunas, but for which the biological criteria in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code do not apply, may be considered as possessing exceptional ecological values without the presence of threatened or endangered species.

(c) “Outstanding state waters” are waters that have special significance for the state because of their exceptional ecological values or exceptional recreational values, and that have been so categorized pursuant to paragraph (E) of this rule. To qualify on the basis of exceptional ecological values they must meet the qualifications for superior high quality waters and be further distinguished as being demonstratively among the best waters of the state from an ecological perspective. To qualify on the basis of exceptional recreational values they must provide outstanding or unique opportunities for recreational boating, fishing or other personal enjoyment.

(d) “Outstanding national resource waters” are surface waters that have a national ecological or recreational significance, and that have been so categorized pursuant to paragraph (E) of this rule. National ecological significance may include providing habitat for populations of federal endangered or threatened species or displaying some unique combination of biological characteristics in addition to those factors listed in paragraph (A)(10)(b) of this rule. National recreational significance may include designation in the national wild and scenic river system.

(11) “Land application and controlled discharge system” means an innovative technology for the treatment of sewage that balances land application of treated wastewater with controlled discharges of wastewater under conditions that minimize stress on the aquatic environment. The system shall be designed to allow a discharge during winter months and required land application of the wastewater during summer months.

(12) “Limited quality waters” mean wetlands categorized as category 1 in accordance with rule 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code and other surface waters of the state specifically designated in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code as limited resource water, nuisance prevention, limited warmwater habitat, or modified warmwater habitat.

(13) “Mass discharge limit” means for an existing source:

(a) The average thirty-day mass limit specified in the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit; or

(b) The product of the average concentration limit specified in the permit and the permitted discharge flow, if no average mass limit is specified; or

(c) The product of an average concentration value derived from the maximum concentration limit specified in the permit using derivation methods established in the total maximum daily load procedures and the permitted discharge flow, if no average concentration or mass limit is specified.

(14) “Minimal degradation alternative” means an alternative, other than the applicant’s preferred alternative, including pollution prevention alternatives, that would result in a lesser lowering of water quality.

(15) “Mitigative technique alternative” means an alternative, other than the applicant’s preferred alternative, or other on-site or off-site control measures designed to offset all or part of the lowering of water quality, preferably within the same watershed.

(16) “Modification of a facility” means:

(a) The addition of new wastewater or sources of pollutants to an existing source, including the addition of new industrial users; and

(b) Any other physical change at the facility from which the discharge is generated that increases the capacity of that facility to discharge a pollutant or results in the discharge of a pollutant not previously discharged, excluding the following:

(i) Routine repair, maintenance and replacement of existing equipment;

(ii) Increases in hours or rates of operation and the use of alternative fuels or raw materials that can be implemented without any physical changes to the facility; and

(iii) Physical changes designed to restore previously existing production or treatment capacity.

An expansion of the wastewater treatment system is not considered a modification of the facility.

(17) “Net increase” means:

(a) For a new source, any level of a regulated pollutant discharged to waters of the state as a result of the activity subject to this rule;

(b) For an existing source:

(i) The amount by which the sum of the following exceeds zero:

(a) The increase in the mass discharge limit attributable to the activity subject to this rule; and

(b) All other contemporaneous increases or decreases attributable to other pollutant sources affecting the surface water segments under consideration and which are stipulated as a condition of the applicant’s permit and which shall occur during the term of the applicant’s permit; or

(ii) For heat, bacteria and any other regulated pollutant which, though not measurable as a mass level is nonetheless susceptible to determinations of net increase, the amount by which the sum of the following exceeds zero:

(a) The increase in an authorized discharge level attributable to the activity subject to this rule; and

(b) All other contemporaneous increases or decreases attributable to other pollutant sources affecting the surface water segments under consideration and which are stipulated as a condition of the applicant’s permit and which shall occur during the term of the applicant’s permit.

(18) “New source” means any treatment works or disposal system other than an existing source, excluding new domestic sewage sources and industrial users tributary to a publicly owned treatment works. A new treatment works built to serve a home or homes with individual systems is considered a new source.

(19) “Non-degradation alternative” means an alternative, other than the applicant’s preferred alternative, including pollution prevention alternatives, that would result in the elimination of the need to lower water quality.

(20) “Permit modification” means an application filed by the permit holder pursuant to paragraph (D) of rule 3745-33-04 of the Administrative Code.

(21) “Permitted discharge flow” means the discharge flow specified in the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit, or permit to install application if not specified in a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit, and shall be representative of the typical wastewater flow to be discharged by a facility when the wastewater facility is operating at full capacity, and considering, where applicable, discharge flows during wet weather events.

(22) “Pollution prevention alternative” means the use of source reduction techniques in order to reduce risk to public health, safety, welfare and the environment and, as a second preference, the use of environmentally sound recycling to achieve these same goals. Pollution prevention avoids cross-media transfers of waste or pollutants and is multi-media in scope; it addresses all types of waste and environmental releases to the air, water and land.

(23) “Regulated pollutant” means any parameter for which water quality criteria have been adopted in, or developed pursuant to, Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code with the exception of biological criteria, and any other parameter that may be limited in a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit as a result of new source performance standards, best conventional pollutant control technology, best available technology economically achievable or best practicable control technology currently available for the appropriate categorical guidelines of 40 C.F.R. 400 to 40 C.F.R. 471. For the purposes of this rule, pH and dissolved oxygen are not considered “regulated pollutants”.

(24) “Remaining available pollutant assimilative capacity” means the available pollutant assimilative capacity for a substance minus the load already allocated to existing national pollutant discharge elimination system permits for dischargers in the water body segment receiving the allocation. This term is not used in the application of antidegradation for lake Erie.

(25) “State resource water” is a designation of high quality waters that is being replaced by the categories of high quality waters described in paragraph (A)(10) of this rule. All water body segments currently designated state resource waters in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code are categorized in this rule as general high quality waters, unless they are specifically listed in tables 5-4 to 5-7 of this rule. Waters designated state resource waters in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code are subject to the considerations of paragraph (C)(5)(d) of this rule.

(26) “Threatened species” mean those species listed in table 5-3 of this rule. A threatened species is an indigenous species whose survival in Ohio is not in immediate jeopardy, but to which a threat exists. Continued or increased stress will result in its becoming endangered.

(27) “Total maximum daily load procedures” mean the procedures for calculating wasteload allocations adopted in Chapter 3745-2 of the Administrative Code.

(28) “Water body pollutant assimilative capacity” means the total maximum allowable load of a substance for a specific water body segment and is calculated as:

(a) For a stream, the water quality criteria for a substance multiplied by the total applicable flow at the end of the segment being studied. The applicable flow is determined using the total maximum daily load procedures; and

(b) For a lake, a value equal to the permitted discharge flow times Y, where Y equals eleven times the water quality criteria for a substance minus ten times the background concentration for the substance.

Water body pollutant assimilative capacity for a lake can also be determined by any alternative method which the director determines to be appropriate and consistent with the total maximum daily load procedures.

(B) Applicability; responsibilities of the applicant.

Except as provided in paragraphs (B)(2), (D) and (F) of this rule, projects or activities covered under paragraph (B)(1) of this rule shall be subject to an antidegradation review described in paragraph (C) of this rule.

(1) This rule shall apply to the following.

(a) For existing sources, any re-issuance or modification of a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit that, if approved, would result in:

(i) Any net increase of a regulated pollutant;

(ii) If the national pollutant discharge elimination system permit specifies no limit for the pollutant, then the imposition of any effluent limit as a result of a modification of the facility; or

(iii) Approval of combined sewer overflow long term control plans and incorporation of the appropriate conditions into an NPDES permit. Long term control plans shall address planned sewer connections and development tributary to the collection system.

(b) For new sources, any permit to install or national pollutant discharge elimination system permit application that, if approved, would result in a net increase in the discharge of any regulated pollutant. For these sources, if a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit application is submitted and approved under the provisions of this rule, a subsequent permit to install application proposing the selected alternative will not be subject to review under this rule.

(c) Any section 401 water quality certification application pursuant to Chapter 3745-32 of the Administrative Code.

(d) Any nonpoint source of pollution that results in a net increase in the release of any regulated pollutant, provided the director has separate authority to regulate the activity.

(e) Unless authorized by a section 404 permit and section 401 water quality certification or a state isolated wetland permit, any permit to install application reviewed pursuant to Chapter 6111. of the Revised Code that would authorize the placement of fill or the construction of any portion of a sewerage system in or near surface waters of the state, if the director determines that aquatic habitat alterations caused by the activity and associated construction disturbances would result in the loss of an existing or designated use as defined in this chapter.

(f) The transfer of all or a portion of the wastewater discharged by a treatment works to a different receiving water body, or to a different treatment works discharging to a different water body, unless the transfer is to a treatment works with capacity to accept the transferred wastewater within the terms of its existing national pollutant discharge elimination system permit. If a discharge is relocated on the same receiving water body within two miles of the original discharge then there is considered to be no net increase in the discharge.

(g) The issuance by the director of environmental protection, in accordance with Chapter 3745-38 of the Administrative Code, or by the director of agriculture, in accordance with Chapter 901:10-4 of the Administrative Code, of a general national pollutant discharge elimination system permit that would result in a net increase.

(h) Any state isolated wetland permit application submitted under section 6111.024 of the Revised Code.

(2) The activities, permits, applications, certifications or other circumstances described in this paragraph are exempt from all provisions of this rule.

(a) Any existing source discharging to waters of the state prior to July 1, 1993, or modifications of a facility made after July 1, 1993, that is not discharging under the terms of a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit. Only the portion of the flow that the existing source was capable of discharging as of July 1, 1993 shall not be subject to the rule provisions.

(b) Any existing source where the net increase is :

(i) The result of allowing a previously authorized or documented production or treatment capacity to be achieved; or

(ii) The result of allowing a limit up to that authorized by the immediately preceding, effective national pollutant discharge elimination system permit, which is not the result of a modification of a facility; or

(iii) If no limit was included in the immediately preceding national pollutant discharge elimination system permit and the pollutant was present or believed present in the discharge when the prior permit was issued, the inclusion of a limit for that pollutant provided there is no increase that is the result of a modification of a facility.

(c) Any permit to install application for a sanitary sewer line extension or a new or expanding industrial user upstream of combined sewer overflows in a community operating a combined sewer system if:

(i) The application conforms to the conditions related to approved long term development or planning documents associated with combined sewer overflow control measures incorporated into a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit as referenced in paragraph (B)(1)(a)(iii) of this rule; or

(ii) It can be documented that subsequent overflows from the combined sewer system will only occur in situations where the wet weather flows within the sanitary sewers exceed six times the average dry weather flows within the sanitary sewers; or

(iii) It can be documented that the combined sewers are and will continue to be operating at less than the original design dry weather capacity; or

(iv) There is an approved and ongoing flow or pollutant offset or infiltration and inflow reduction program for the collection system.

(d) Any notice of intent filed with the director of environmental protection requesting coverage under a general national pollutant discharge elimination system permit issued in accordance with Chapter 3745-38 of the Administrative Code or notice of intent filed with the director of agriculture requesting coverage under a general national pollutant discharge elimination system permit issued in accordance with Chapter 901:10-4 of the Administrative Code.

(e) Any discharge that, as the result of the addition of heat associated with the process or wastewater treatment system, increases the ambient temperature of the receiving water body by less than one degree Fahrenheit or is otherwise covered by the provisions of a section 316(a) variance.

(f) The initial inclusion of whole effluent toxicity limitations in any national pollutant discharge elimination system permit or other control document, if there has been no change in discharge since July 1, 1993.

(g) The addition or expansion of an industrial user to a publicly owned treatment works (POTW) collection system that does not trigger a permit limit for the POTW. Local limits shall be established for the POTW pretreatment program, or equivalent, utilizing a ten per cent safety factor when performing the evaluation related to effluent limitations to protect water quality standards.

(h) The addition of domestic sewage sources to the POTW within the design capacity of the POTW.

(3) Except as provided in paragraphs (B)(2), (B)(4), (D) and (F) of this rule, the applicant covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule must submit documentation of the following.

(a) Identification of the substances to be discharged, including the amount of regulated pollutants to be discharged in terms of mass and concentration, and, if paragraph (B)(1)(c) of this rule applies, the amount of dredged and fill material to be discharged.

(b) A description of any construction work, fill or other structures to occur or be placed in or near the stream bed.

(c) A description and schematic of the applicant’s preferred alternative for design and operation, including appropriate cost estimates, of the activity.

(d) Description and analyses, including availability, cost effectiveness and technical feasibility, of the utilization of central or regional treatment facilities rather than creating a new point source discharge. This analysis shall include an evaluation of long-range plans outlined in state or local water quality management planning documents and applicable facility planning documents.

(e) Descriptions, schematics and analyses of non-degradation alternatives, minimal degradation alternatives and mitigative technique alternatives for the design and operation, including appropriate cost estimates, of the activity that the applicant has considered.

(f) An estimate of the important social, economic and environmental benefits to be realized through the project or activity if the water quality is lowered, including, as appropriate, the number and types of jobs created and the tax revenues generated.

(g) An estimate of important social, economic and environmental benefits to be lost if water quality is lowered, such as lost or lowered recreational opportunities.

(h) To the extent that such information is known to those in the local community or is otherwise public, a listing and description of all government or privately sponsored conservation projects that have specifically targeted improved water quality or enhanced recreational opportunities on the water body affected by the activity.

(4) Applications for section 401 water quality certifications are exempt from paragraph (B)(3) of this rule. Required submissions shall be determined in accordance with section 6111.30 of the Revised Code, Chapter 3745-32 of the Administrative Code and rules 3745-1-50 to 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code.

(C) Antidegradation review requirements.

(1) Protection of water body uses.

Existing uses, which are determined using the use designations defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code, and the level of water quality necessary to protect existing uses, shall be maintained and protected. There may be no degradation of water quality that results in either a violation of the applicable water quality criteria for the designated uses, unless authorized by a water quality standard variance issued in accordance with rule 3745-33-07 of the Administrative Code, or the elimination or substantial impairment of existing uses. The director shall, pursuant to paragraph (A)(6) of rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code, prohibit increased concentrations of specific regulated pollutants that are incompatible with the attainment or restoration of the designated use. Existing wetland uses, as defined in rule 3745-1-53 of the Administrative Code, shall be maintained and protected in accordance with rules 3745-1-50 to 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code.

(2) Required treatment technology, nonpoint source controls.

Except as provided in paragraph (D)(2) of this rule, any net increase in the discharge of a specific regulated pollutant resulting from a modification or new source shall, as a minimum, be controlled through best available demonstrated control technology relative to the specific regulated pollutant. More stringent treatment may be required pursuant to paragraph (C)(8) of this rule, or if needed to meet water quality standards. Feasible management or regulatory programs pursuant to sections 208, 303 and 319 of the act shall be applied to nonpoint sources.

(3) Public involvement.

Except as provided in paragraphs (B)(2) and (D) of this rule, the director shall provide for public participation and intergovernmental coordination prior to taking action on all activities covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule using the provisions of this paragraph.

(a) In accordance with Chapter 3745-47 of the Administrative Code, the director shall publish a public notice within thirty days regarding receipt of any permit application or state isolated wetland permit application covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule. The purpose of such notice shall be to allow for inspection and review of the application, to indicate that the project is subject to the provisions of this rule and whether any of the exclusions or waivers described in paragraph (D) of this rule apply, to instruct people to contact the director within thirty days if they want to be on the interested parties mailing list for that application, and, on general high quality waters and limited quality waters, to determine whether there is interest in having a public hearing. Public notice for section 401 water quality certification applications shall be published pursuant to the requirements in section 6111.30 of the Revised Code.

Notices shall be sent by first class mail to all persons on the mailing list created pursuant to paragraph (C)(3)(d) of this rule.

(b) The director shall develop an informational fact sheet for each permit or activity for which a public notice is issued in accordance with paragraph (C)(3)(a) of this rule, excluding section 401 water quality certification and state isolated wetland permit activities, within thirty days of receipt of the application. The purpose of such fact sheet shall be to: provide information to potentially affected parties; provide a description of the project; outline the review process and schedule; specify where the application or permits can be viewed; identify the water bodies potentially affected; instruct individuals how to request to be on the interested parties mailing list; provide an opportunity to request a public hearing pursuant to paragraph (C)(3)(f) of this rule; and advertise the date, time and location of a public hearing if one is scheduled pursuant to paragraph (C)(3)(e) of this rule. These fact sheets shall be sent by first class mail, or alternative means as requested, to all persons on the mailing list created pursuant to paragraph (C)(3)(d) of this rule.

(c) All notices of public hearings required by paragraphs (C)(3)(e) and (C)(3)(f) of this rule shall be published once in a newspaper having general circulation in the county where the source, activity or facility is located. The notice shall be published at least forty-five days before the hearing. Notices of hearings shall also be sent by first class mail, or by alternative means as requested, to all persons on the mailing list created pursuant to paragraph (C)(3)(d) of this rule.

(d) The director shall develop and maintain a list of persons and organizations who have expressed an interest in or may, by the nature of their purposes, activities or members, be affected by or have an interest in antidegradation reviews. These persons and organizations may request that all fact sheets or public hearing public notices identified by this rule be forwarded to them by means other than first class mail (e.g., by electronic transmission).

(e) Within ninety days of receipt of the application, the director shall hold a public hearing for any permit application, section 401 water quality certification application or state isolated wetland permit application covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule whenever a water body categorized outstanding national resource water, outstanding state water, superior high quality water or category 3 wetland is affected. This public hearing shall be for the purpose of evaluating issues related to lower water quality and shall be prior to and separate from a public hearing on the proposed or draft action on the application. Section 401 water quality certifications impacting lake Erie or its shoreline are exempt from this requirement. Public hearings for section 401 water quality certifications impacting lake Erie or its shoreline will be held at the discretion of the director and according to the timelines contained in section 6111.30 of the Revised Code.

(f) For general high quality waters other than category 3 wetlands and for limited quality waters, the director shall hold a public hearing for any permit to install application, national pollutant discharge elimination system permit application, section 401 water quality certification application or state isolated wetland permit application covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule whenever the director determines there is significant public interest. A public hearing shall be held for the issuance of any draft general national pollutant discharge elimination system permit.

The director shall hold public hearings relative to issues of lower water quality as a concurrent hearing at the time of the draft or proposed action. However, if the application is not covered by paragraph (D) of this rule, the director may choose to hold a public hearing preceding the draft or proposed action if, at the director’s discretion, the project is considered to be controversial or complex. For section 401 water quality certification applications and state isolated wetland permit applications, the public hearing shall precede any action of the director.

(g) A public notice of the director’s proposed or draft action regarding the activity and its potential to lower water quality shall be published following the procedures in Chapter 3745-47 of the Administrative Code. The director shall provide notification by first class mail, or alternative means as requested, to all interested parties identified through the procedures in paragraph (C)(3) of this rule. Additional procedures are described in paragraph (C)(8) of this rule.

(h) The director shall notify the Ohio department of natural resources, the United States fish and wildlife service, the United States environmental protection agency and any affected local areawide planning agencies of all proposed activities that may lower water quality. In addition, for activities covered under paragraph (B)(1)(a), (B)(1)(b) or (B)(1)(f) of this rule, the director shall notify the Ohio department of development and any affected local governmental units. The director or the other agencies may initiate additional intergovernmental coordination.

(4) Outstanding national resource waters.

The director shall impose the following requirements on all activities covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule that discharge to outstanding national resource waters, or that discharge upstream of outstanding national resource waters.

(a) Present ambient water quality in outstanding national resource waters shall not be degraded for any substance.

(b) The director may re-issue permits for any source discharging to an outstanding national resource water if the source had a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit at the time the water body was categorized an outstanding national resource water as described in paragraph (E) of this rule, provided there is no increase in the permitted discharge concentrations or loads.

(c) New sources may not discharge directly to outstanding national resource waters, and may not discharge at points located upstream from outstanding national resource waters unless it can be demonstrated by the applicant that the chemical and biological quality of the outstanding national resource water will not be adversely affected.

(d) Notwithstanding the provisions stated in paragraphs (C)(4)(a) and (C)(4)(e) of this rule, activities that result in short-term changes in water quality in outstanding national resource waters may be allowed if the director determines there will be no long-term detrimental impact. Activities resulting in short-term impacts on outstanding national resource waters will be subject to a review of non-degradation alternatives, minimal degradation alternatives, mitigative technique alternatives, economic and social benefits, public participation and intergovernmental coordination.

(e) Notwithstanding the provisions stated in paragraphs (C)(4)(a) and (C)(4)(d) of this rule discharges of dredged and fill material to outstanding national resource waters that are wetlands, and are owned and managed solely for natural area preservation, public recreation, education or scientific purposes, may be authorized provided the discharges and associated activities result in only a short-term disturbance to water quality and will not adversely affect the ecological quality of the wetland or other surface waters. Authorized discharges and associated activities include boardwalk construction, repair and maintenance of dikes and other hydrological controls, and removal of non-native and invasive plant species. For these discharges and associated activities the director may waive the need for the review outlined in paragraph (C)(4)(d) of this rule.

(5) Other waters.

For waters other than outstanding national resource waters and limited quality waters, the director shall impose the following requirements on all activities covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule, except that for section 401 water quality certifications and state isolated wetland permits pursuant to section 6111.024 of the Revised Code for high quality waters that are wetlands, the director shall impose the requirements specified in rules 3745-1-50 to 3745-1-54 of the Administrative Code in lieu of paragraphs (C)(5) and (C)(8) of this rule. In addition, the director may apply the items in paragraphs (C)(5)(a) to (C)(5)(f) and (C)(5)(k) to (C)(5)(m) of this rule, may consider cumulative impacts as defined in paragraph (I) of rule 3745-1-50 of the Administrative Code, and shall consider whether the wetland is scarce regionally or statewide and the feasibility of replacing that wetland type, in making a decision whether to allow the lowering of water quality.

The director may approve activities that lower water quality only if there has been an examination of non-degradation, minimal degradation and mitigative technique alternatives, a review of the social and economic issues related to the activity, a public participation process and appropriate intergovernmental coordination, and the director determines that the lower water quality is necessary to accommodate important social or economic development in the area in which the water body is located.

The director may require the applicant to implement a non-degradation alternative, a minimal degradation alternative or a mitigative technique alternative to offset all or part of the proposed lowering of water quality, if the director determines that the alternative is technically feasible and economically justifiable. Any lowering of water quality shall not exceed the limitations specified in paragraph (C)(6) of this rule.

When making determinations regarding proposed activities that lower water quality the director shall consider the following:

(a) The magnitude of the proposed lowering of water quality;

(b) The anticipated impact of the proposed lowering of water quality on aquatic life and wildlife, including threatened and endangered species, important commercial or recreational sport fish species, other individual species and the overall aquatic community structure and function;

(c) The anticipated impact of the proposed lowering of water quality on human health and the overall quality and value of the water resource;

(d) The degree to which water quality may be lowered in waters located within national, state or local parks, preserves or wildlife areas, waters listed as state resource waters in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code, or waters categorized outstanding national resource waters, outstanding state waters or superior high quality waters;

(e) The effects of lower water quality on the economic value of the water body for recreation, tourism and other commercial activities, aesthetics, or other use and enjoyment by humans;

(f) The extent to which the resources or characteristics adversely impacted by the lowered water quality are unique or rare within the locality or state;

(g) The cost of the water pollution controls associated with the proposed activity;

(h) The cost effectiveness and technical feasibility of the non-degradation alternatives, minimal degradation alternatives or mitigative technique alternatives and the effluent reduction benefits and water quality benefits associated with such alternatives;

(i) The availability, cost effectiveness, and technical feasibility of central or regional sewage collection and treatment facilities, including long-range plans outlined in state or local water quality management planning documents and applicable facility planning documents;

(j) The availability, reliability and cost effectiveness of any non-degradation alternative, minimal degradation alternative or mitigative technique alternative;

(k) The reliability of the preferred alternative including, but not limited to, the possibility of recurring operational and maintenance difficulties that would lead to increased degradation;

(l) The condition of the local economy, the number and types of new direct and indirect jobs to be created, state and local tax revenue to be generated, and other economic and social factors as the director deems appropriate; and

(m) Any other information regarding the proposed activities and the affected water body that the director deems appropriate.

(6) Set asides to limit lower water quality.

In addition to the other provisions of paragraph (C) of this rule, the director shall not allow water quality to be lowered by more than as specified in this paragraph when acting on applications or activities covered by paragraph (B)(1) of this rule.

(a) For outstanding state waters, the director shall reserve seventy per cent of the remaining available pollutant assimilative capacity for all regulated pollutants for which water quality criteria have been adopted in or developed pursuant to Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code. Except as provided in paragraph (C)(7) of this rule, the reserved portion shall not be allocated to any source unless , and to the extent that, the source demonstrates that a smaller reserve will adequately protect resident or representative species. The requirements of this paragraph shall not apply to any water body categorized as outstanding state water solely because of its exceptional recreational value.

(b) For lake Erie, new and existing sources shall be limited to the water body pollutant assimilative capacity as defined in paragraph (A)(28)(b) of this rule.

(c) For superior high quality waters, other than lake Erie and those waters covered by paragraph (C)(6)(e) of this rule, the director shall reserve thirty-five per cent of the remaining available pollutant assimilative capacity for all regulated pollutants for which water quality criteria have been established in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code. Except as provided in paragraph (C)(7) of this rule, the reserved portion shall not be allocated to any source unless , and to the extent that, the source demonstrates that a smaller reserve will adequately protect resident or representative species. The director may reserve a higher percentage of the remaining available pollutant assimilative capacity if there is scientific evidence that strongly suggests that resident or representative species are more sensitive to a pollutant or class of pollutants and may be inadequately protected using the applicable water quality criteria and the standard set aside provision. The higher set aside shall be established for specific pollutants or classes of pollutants through rule making pursuant to paragraph (E) of this rule.

(d) For general high quality waters and limited quality waters, water quality may not be lower than the applicable water quality criteria for the water body, unless authorized by a water quality standard variance issued in accordance with appropriate rules.

(e) For outstanding state waters so categorized because of exceptional recreational value the director shall:

(i) Evaluate, or cause the applicant to evaluate, the impact of the project on bacteriological contamination for any project covered under paragraph (B)(1) of this rule. No permit shall be granted if the director finds that the project or discharge will result in a significant long term increase in the frequency and duration of bacteriological pollution.

(ii) Review all permit actions, covered under paragraph (B)(1) of this rule, to minimize the introduction of pollutants or floating debris and materials which may affect the aesthetic quality of the receiving waters.

(7) Credit projects.

An applicant for a project covered under paragraph (B)(1) of this rule may request that the director approve a credit project in lieu of the set asides described in paragraphs (C)(6)(a) and (C)(6)(c) of this rule. In order for a credit project to be considered for approval, the proposal must:

(a) Occur in the same water body where the proposed lowering of water quality is to take place; and

(b) Not necessarily offset the proposed pollutant load being pursued, but address an existing or potential threat to the water body. This may include providing for water body enhancement or restoration activities.

If the director determines to approve a credit project in lieu of the set asides described in paragraphs (C)(6)(a) and (C)(6)(c), the director may include, at the director’s discretion, an alternative lower set aside to accompany the credit project. A lower set aside must be established through rule making and incorporated into tables established in paragraph (E) of this rule.

(8) Procedures.

(a) The director shall assess each proposed activity covered by paragraph (B)(1) or (F) of this rule on a case-by-case basis. For each proposed activity, the director shall weigh the information acquired relative to the proposal, that was submitted by the applicant or otherwise obtained by the director, and all comments presented during the public review period, including intergovernmental comments, and make a determination to:

(i) Allow the applicant’s preferred alternative with appropriate conditions, if applicable, and the lower water quality as proposed because it has been determined that a discharge or the activity is necessary;

(ii) Deny the applicant’s preferred alternative as proposed; or

(iii) Require a cost beneficial, technically feasible and/or available non-degradation, minimal degradation or mitigative technique alternative that would result in no or a lesser lowering of water quality.

(b) Any action of the director issuing a permit to install or a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit covered under paragraph (B)(1) or (F) of this rule shall be preceded by a draft action and shall be issued in accordance with Chapter 3745-47 of the Administrative Code.

(c) Any action of the director denying a permit to install or a national pollutant discharge elimination system permit covered under paragraph (B)(1) or (F) of this rule shall be preceded by a proposed action and shall be issued in accordance with Chapter 3745-47 of the Administrative Code.

(d) Any action of the director on a section 401 water quality certification covered under paragraph (B)(1) or (F) of this rule shall be taken in accordance with Chapters 3745-32 and 3745-47 of the Administrative Code.

(e) Any action of the director on a state isolated wetland permit application submitted pursuant to section 6111.024 of the Revised Code and covered under paragraph (B)(1) or (F) of this rule shall be taken in accordance with Chapter 3745-47 of the Administrative Code.

(D) Exclusions and waivers.

The exclusions and waivers described in paragraphs (D)(1)(a), (D)(1)(b), (D)(1)(d), (D)(1)(e) and (D)(3) of this rule do not apply to bioaccumulative chemicals of concern within the lake Erie basin.

(1) The following situations are excluded from the submittal and review requirements listed in paragraphs (B)(3)(e) to (B)(3)(h) and (C)(5) of this rule. In determining the applicability of any of the following exclusions, the evaluation shall not only consider potential effects or impacts to the receiving waters, but also to any subsequent waters potentially affected by the discharge or activity.

(a) Any source discharging to limited quality waters.

(b) Any de minimis net increase determined using the following criteria. For the discharge of primarily sanitary wastewaters, only ammonia-nitrogen will be evaluated to determine the applicability of the appropriate exclusion.

(i) For general high quality waters, any net increase in the discharge of a regulated pollutant that is less than ten per cent of the wasteload allocation to maintain water quality standards calculated using total maximum daily load procedures, provided the proposed lowering of water quality does not exceed eighty per cent of the wasteload allocation to maintain water quality standards calculated using total maximum daily load procedures.

(ii) For superior high quality waters, other than lake Erie, and outstanding state waters any net increase in the discharge of a regulated pollutant that results in less than a five per cent change in the ambient water quality concentration of the receiving water as projected to occur using total maximum daily load procedures, provided the proposed lowering of water quality does not exceed the portion of the remaining available assimilative capacity specified by the director pursuant to paragraphs (C)(6)(a) or (C)(6)(c) and (E) of this rule.

(iii) For lake Erie any net increase in the discharge of a regulated pollutant that is less than ten per cent of the water body pollutant assimilative capacity.

(c) Combined sewer overflow elimination or reduction projects affecting one or more water bodies where there will be a net decrease in the overall pollutant loadings discharged to surface waters of the state. Treatment byproducts of combined sewer overflow discharges (e.g., chlorine for disinfection) shall be excluded from review.

(d) Any disposal system built and operated exclusively for the treatment of contaminated ground water at response action clean-up sites.

(e) Any disposal system built and operated as a land application and controlled discharge system as defined in paragraph (A)(11) of this rule.

(f) Any net increase in the discharge of a regulated pollutant resulting from a change in fuel used by the discharger, provided the discharger was capable of accommodating the new fuel on the effective date of this rule.

(g) Any imposition of mercury effluent limitations in an NPDES permit for an existing source where the mercury limitations are based on a variance pursuant to paragraph (D)(10) of rule 3745-33-07 of the Administrative Code.

(h) Any discharge of the following regulated pollutants within the range indicated:

(i) Total suspended solids at or below sixty-five mg/l; or

(ii) Oil and grease at or below ten mg/l.

(i) Any discharge that, as the result of the addition of heat associated with the process or wastewater treatment system, increases the ambient temperature of the receiving stream greater than or equal to one degree Fahrenheit, as calculated using total maximum daily load procedures, up to that allowed through water quality standards.

(j) Any general permit developed by the director in accordance with the provisions of Chapter 3745-38 of the Administrative Code.

(2) The director may waive the requirement to install best available demonstrated control technology for new sources discharging sanitary wastewater if:

(a) The modification, new source or national pollutant discharge elimination system application is for a project designed exclusively to restore, maintain or ensure design capacity and associated pollutant discharge levels already authorized in an effective national pollutant discharge elimination system permit; or

(b) The modification, new source or national pollutant discharge elimination system application is the direct and sole result of a proposed transfer of pollutant loading from an existing direct discharge of pollution to waters of the state, and the director has determined that the transfer will result in overall environmental improvement. The director’s determination on this matter shall be based upon the antidegradation review process specified in paragraph (C) of this rule, unless otherwise excluded from such review pursuant to paragraph (D) of this rule.

(3) The director may waive the submittal and review requirements listed in paragraphs (B)(3)(f) to (B)(3)(h) and (C)(5) of this rule if it is determined that:

(a) The proposed net increase in the discharge of a regulated pollutant does not result in an increase in the ambient water quality concentration of the receiving water after mixing as projected to occur under the total maximum daily load procedures;

(b) Any proposed net increase in the discharge of nutrients (such as, but not limited to, phosphorus and nitrogen) or toxic substances complies with all applicable water quality standards and will not threaten environmentally sensitive areas such as downstream lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, exceptional warmwater habitats, coldwater habitats, outstanding national resource waters, outstanding state waters, or superior high quality waters; and

(c) The requirements of paragraphs (B)(3)(d) and (B)(3)(e) of this rule have been met and the director determines that none of the non-degradation alternatives, minimal degradation alternatives or mitigative technique alternatives for the design and operation of the activity are technically feasible and economically justifiable.

(4) Nothing in this rule shall prohibit the director from approving activities that lower water quality on a temporary basis whenever the director determines that an emergency exists requiring immediate action to protect public health and welfare. The director shall issue any such approval in accordance with division (C) of section 6111.06 of the Revised Code and rule 3745-47-29 of the Administrative Code.

(5) The director may waive the submittal and review requirements listed in paragraphs (B)(3)(f) to (B)(3)(h) and (C)(5) of this rule if the applicant is seeking a revised water quality based effluent limit based upon the results of either a site specific study of the water quality criteria or a change in the water quality criteria found in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code and the applicant demonstrates that the facility has not complied with the existing water quality based permit limit. The following conditions must be met for this waiver to apply:

(a) Any proposed net increase in the discharge of regulated pollutants complies with all applicable water quality standards and will not threaten environmentally sensitive areas such as downstream lakes, reservoirs, wetlands, exceptional warmwater habitats, coldwater habitats, outstanding national resource waters, outstanding state waters, or superior high quality waters; and

(b) The requirements of paragraphs (B)(3)(d) and (B)(3)(e) of this rule have been met and the director determines that none of the non-degradation alternatives, minimal degradation alternatives or mitigative technique alternatives for the design and operation of the activity are technically feasible and economically justifiable.

(E) Categorization of waters; site-specific revisions.

(1) All surface waters are categorized as general high quality waters except as follows.

(a) Lake Erie is categorized as a superior high quality water.

(b) All surface waters of the state meeting the definition of limited quality waters are so categorized, unless the water body is the source of drinking water for a public water supply, in which case it shall be considered a general high quality water for the purposes of this rule.

(c) The water bodies listed in table 5-4 of this rule are categorized superior high quality waters. The reserved set aside percentage established pursuant to paragraph (C)(6)(c) of this rule is thirty-five per cent unless indicated otherwise in table 5-4 of this rule.

(d) The water bodies listed in table 5-5 of this rule are categorized outstanding state waters due to exceptional ecological values. The reserved set aside percentage established pursuant to paragraph (C)(6)(a) of this rule is seventy per cent of the remaining available pollutant assimilative capacity.

(e) The water bodies listed in table 5-6 of this rule are categorized outstanding state waters due to exceptional recreational values. The provisions of paragraph (C)(6)(e) of this rule apply.

(f) The water bodies listed in table 5-7 of this rule are categorized outstanding national resource waters.

(2) At least once every three years, the director, in consultation with the director of the department of natural resources, shall consider available information on water bodies in Ohio and determine appropriate high quality water categorizations. Each determination shall consider attributes of exceptional recreational or ecological value, the national significance of the water body, and other existing and planned uses of the water body. If the director identifies any waters not properly categorized, the director shall public notice the director’s intent to categorize them to the appropriate category upon consideration of public comment. The director shall categorize outstanding national resource waters, outstanding state waters and superior high quality waters in tables 5-4 to 5-7 of this rule.

(3) A person adversely affected by the high quality water categorization of a water body pursuant to paragraph (E)(1) or (E)(2) of this rule may petition the director to revise that categorization. Any such petition shall detail the basis for the petition and contain, at a minimum, new relevant and factual information, or relevant and factual information not previously available to the director at the time of the categorization described in paragraph (E)(1) or (E)(2) of this rule. The petition must contain sufficient information, or such additional information as the director may request, to justify a decision by the director to either revise or retain the categorization under paragraph (E)(1) or (E)(2) of this rule. Within three months of receiving a petition containing complete and adequate information, or within such longer time as the director and the petitioner may agree, the director shall either approve or propose to deny the petition in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The director shall subsequently make appropriate revisions to the high quality water categorization of the water body in tables 5-4 to 5-7 of this rule, as appropriate, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(4) Petitions for revision to set asides.

(a) Any person who is or may be adversely affected by a set aside percentage established pursuant to paragraph (C)(6)(a) or (C)(6)(c) of this rule may petition the director to revise that set aside percentage. Any such petition shall detail the basis for the petition and contain sufficient information, or such additional information as the director may request, to justify a decision by the director to either retain the set aside percentage, remove the set aside percentage or establish site specific set asides for one or more pollutants.

(b) If the director concludes, based on the information presented in the petition and such other relevant scientific information as is available to the director, that the existing set aside is more or less stringent than necessary to preserve the attributes that justified designation of the water body as an outstanding state water or superior high quality water, the director shall establish a revised, site-specific set aside for that or those pollutants. The revised site-specific set aside for each pollutant shall be set at the percentage of the remaining available pollutants’ assimilative capacity that the director concludes, based on the available scientific evidence, must be preserved to adequately protect the attributes that justified designation of the water body as an outstanding state water or superior high quality water.

(c) Within three months of receiving a petition containing complete and adequate information, or within such longer time as the director and the petitioner may agree, the director shall either approve, approve with modifications or propose to deny the petition in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code. The director shall subsequently make appropriate revision to the high quality water categorization of the water body in tables 5-4 to 5-7 of this rule, as appropriate, in accordance with Chapter 119. of the Revised Code.

(F) Special provisions for bioaccumulative chemicals of concern in the lake Erie drainage basin.

The following special provisions are applicable to the discharge or release to the environment of any bioaccumulative chemical of concern in the lake Erie drainage basin. Unless otherwise noted, these requirements shall apply in addition to the provisions found in paragraphs (A) to (E) of this rule.

(1) In lieu of the requirements of paragraph (B)(1) of this rule, any significant lowering of water quality as described in paragraph (F)(2) of this rule shall require the applicant to submit the information required by paragraph (B)(3) of this rule and to complete the demonstration required by paragraph (F)(3) of this rule. The director shall establish conditions in the control document that meet the requirements of paragraph (F)(4) of this rule.

(2) Significant lowering of water quality.

(a) A significant lowering of water quality occurs when there is a new or increased loading of any bioaccumulative chemical of concern from any regulated existing or new facility, either point source or nonpoint source for which there is a control document or reviewable action, as a result of any activity including, but not limited to:

(i) Construction of a new regulated facility or modification of an existing regulated facility such that a new or modified control document is required;

(ii) Modification of an existing regulated facility operating under a current control document such that the production capacity of the facility is increased;

(iii) Addition of a new source of untreated or pretreated effluent containing or expected to contain any bioaccumulative chemical of concern to an existing wastewater treatment works, whether public or private;

(iv) A request for an increased limit in an applicable control document; and

(v) Other deliberate activities that, based on the information available, could be reasonably expected to result in an increased loading of any bioaccumulative chemical of concern to any waters of the Great Lakes system.

(b) Notwithstanding the above, changes in loadings of any bioaccumulative chemical of concern within the existing capacity and processes that are covered by the existing applicable control document, are not subject to an antidegradation review. These changes include, but are not limited to:

(i) Normal operational variability including, but not limited to, intermittent increased loadings related to wet weather conditions;

(ii) Changes in intake water pollutants;

(iii) Increasing the production hours of the facility, (e.g., adding a second shift), provided production hours do not exceed those described in, or used to derive, the existing control document;

(iv) Increasing the rate of production, provided production rates do not exceed those described in, or used to derive, the existing control document;

(v) Discharges of quantities of a bioaccumulative chemical of concern in the intake water at a facility proposing a new or increased discharge, provided that the new or increased discharge is not expected to result in a net increase in the total load of the bioaccumulative chemical of concern in the receiving water body;

(vi) Increasing the sewered area, connection of new sewers and customers, or acceptance of trucked-in wastes such as septage and holding tank wastes by a POTW unless, for a bioaccumulative chemical of concern, there is increased loading due to the collection of wastewater from a significant industrial user and, based on the industry’s raw materials and processes, the wastewater is expected to have quantifiable concentrations of the bioaccumulative chemical of concern significantly above levels typically associated with domestic wastewater and non-industrial stormwater;

(vii) Increased discharge of a bioaccumulative chemical of concern due to implementation of controls on wet weather-related flows, including, but not limited to, combined sewer overflows and industrial stormwater; and

(viii) Increased discharges of a bioaccumulative chemical of concern resulting from a change in fuel used by the discharger, provided that the discharger was capable of accommodating the new fuel on the effective date of this rule.

(c) Also excluded from an antidegradation review are new effluent limits based on improved monitoring data or new water quality criteria or values that are not a result of changes in pollutant loading.

(d) Also excluded from the antidegradation submittal and review requirements listed in paragraphs (B)(3)(c) to (B)(3)(h) and (C)(5) of this rule is any imposition of mercury effluent limitations in an NPDES permit for an existing source, where the mercury effluent limitations are based on a variance pursuant to paragraph (D)(10) of rule 3745-33-07 of the Administrative Code.

(3) Antidegradation demonstration.

Any entity seeking to significantly lower water quality for a bioaccumulative chemical of concern, as defined in paragraph (F)(2) of this rule, in a limited quality water or high quality water must, in addition to the requirement in paragraph (B)(3) of this rule, submit an antidegradation demonstration for consideration by the director pursuant to the review requirements of this paragraph and paragraph (C) of this rule. The antidegradation demonstration shall include the following:

(a) Pollution prevention alternatives analysis. Identify any cost-effective pollution prevention alternatives and techniques that are available to the entity, that would eliminate or significantly reduce the loadings of bioaccumulative chemicals of concern; and

(b) Alternative or enhanced treatment analysis. Identify alternative or enhanced treatment techniques that are available to the entity that would eliminate the lowering of water quality and their costs relative to the cost of treatment necessary to achieve applicable effluent limitations.

(4) For limited quality waters and high quality waters, the director shall ensure that no action resulting in a lowering of water quality occurs unless an antidegradation demonstration has been completed pursuant to paragraphs (B)(3) and (F)(3) of this rule and the information thus provided is determined by the director pursuant paragraph (C) of this rule to adequately support the lowering of water quality.

(a) The director shall establish conditions in the control document applicable to the regulated facility that prohibit the regulated facility from undertaking any deliberate action, such that there would be an increase in the rate of mass loading of any bioaccumulative chemical of concern, unless an antidegradation demonstration is provided to the director and approved pursuant to paragraph (C) of this rule prior to commencement of the action. Imposition of limits due to improved monitoring data or new water quality criteria or values, or changes in loadings of any bioaccumulative chemical of concern within the existing capacity and processes that are covered by the existing applicable control document, are not subject to an antidegradation review.

(b) For bioaccumulative chemicals of concern known or believed to be present in a discharge, from a point or nonpoint source, a monitoring requirement shall be included in the control document. The control document shall also include a provision requiring the source to notify the director of any increased loadings that would be subject to the provisions of the paragraph (F)(2) of this rule and which have not received approval from the director under the conditions specified in this rule. Upon notification, the director shall require actions as necessary to reduce or eliminate the increased loading if the increase is subject to the provisions of the paragraph (F)(2) of this rule. Requirements to reduce or eliminate the increased loading imposed by the director pursuant to this paragraph shall apply unless or until the director approves the increased loadings under the provisions specified in this rule.

(c) Fact sheets prepared pursuant to 40 C.F.R. 124.8 and 40 C.F.R. 124.56 shall reflect any conditions developed under paragraph (F) of this rule and included in a permit.

Table 5-1. Best available demonstrated control technology for new sources discharging sanitary wastewater.

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Table 5-2. Declining fish species.

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Table 5-3. Threatened species.

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Table 5-4. Superior high quality waters.

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Table 5-5. Outstanding state waters based on exceptional ecological values.

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Table 5-6. Outstanding state waters based on exceptional recreational values.

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Table 5-7. Outstanding national resource waters.

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Effective: 03/01/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/01/2008

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: R.C. 6111.041, 6111.12

Rule Amplifies: R.C. 6111.041, 6111.12

Prior Effective Dates: 2/14/1978, 4/4/1985, 10/1/1996, 10/31/1997, 5/1/1998, 4/17/2001 (Emer.), 7/1/2003, 3/15/2010

(A) Non-thermal. Pursuant

to Chapter 3745-2 of the Administrative Code, where necessary to attain or maintain the use designated for a surface water by these water quality standards, the director may establish, as a term of a discharge permit issued pursuant to Chapter 3745-33 of the Administrative Code or a permit to install issued pursuant to Chapter 3745-42 of the Administrative Code, a mixing zone applicable to the non-thermal constituents of the point source discharge authorized by such permit.

(B) Thermal. Pursuant

to Chapter 3745-2 of the Administrative Code, the director may establish, as a term of a discharge permit issued pursuant to Chapter 3745-33 of the Administrative Code or a permit to install issued pursuant to Chapter 3745-42 of the Administrative Code, a mixing zone applicable to the thermal component of the point source discharge authorized by such permit.

Effective: 06/07/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 11/30/2010 and 06/07/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 2/14/1978, 4/4/1985, 5/1/1990, 10/31/1997

(A) Water quality standards contain two distinct elements: designated uses; and numerical or narrative criteria designed to protect and measure attainment of the uses.

(1) Each water body in the state is assigned one or more aquatic life habitat use designations. Each water body may be assigned one or more water supply use designations and/or one recreational use designation. These use designations are defined in paragraph (B) of this rule. Water bodies are assigned use designations in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-32 of the Administrative Code. In addition, water bodies are assigned designations as described in paragraphs (B)(1)(a), (B)(1)(c), (B)(3)(a), (B)(4)(a) and (B)(4)(b) of this rule and in the antidegradation rule(rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code).

(2) Statewide chemical-specific criteria for the support of use designations are presented in this rule. Additional chemical-specific criteria applicable within the lake Erie drainage basin are contained in rules 3745-1-31 and 3745-1-33 of the Administrative Code. Additional chemical-specific criteria applicable within the Ohio river drainage basin are contained in rules 3745-1-32 and 3745-1-34 of the Administrative Code. Additional chemical-specific criteria may be derived as described in rules 3745-1-36, 3745-1-37, 3745-1-38 and 3745-1-39 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent chemical-specific criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(3) The chemical-specific criteria listed in this rule apply as “Outside Mixing Zone” or “Inside Mixing Zone Maximum.” For the purpose of setting water quality based effluent limits, the criteria which apply “Outside Mixing Zone” shall be met after the effluent and the receiving water are reasonably well mixed as provided in rules 3745-2-05 and 3745-2-08 of the Administrative Code. The criteria listed as”Inside Mixing Zone Maximum” shall be applicable as end-of-pipe maximum effluent limits or as criteria to be met within a short distance of the effluent pipe except as provided in rule 3745-2-08 of the Administrative Code. Possible exceptions regarding the application of these criteria may apply as described in paragraph (A)(6) of this rule.

(4) The water quality criteria adopted in, or developed pursuant to, this rule shall apply as follows:

(a) The “Inside Mixing Zone Maximum” and “Outside Mixing Zone Maximum” water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life, or site-specific modifications thereof, shall apply to all water bodies. Water quality criteria applicable to specific aquatic life use designations are listed where appropriate. The “Inside Mixing Zone Maximum” and “Outside Mixing Zone Maximum” water quality criteria identified for the warmwater habitat use designation apply to water bodies not assigned an aquatic life use designation.

(b) The “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life, or site-specific modifications thereof, shall apply to all water bodies except those water bodies assigned the limited resource water use designation. However, the limited resource water “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria for dissolved oxygen, pH and temperature apply to water bodies assigned the limited resource water use designation.

Water quality criteria applicable to specific aquatic life use designations are listed where appropriate. The “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria identified for the warmwater habitat use designation apply to water bodies not assigned an aquatic life use designation.

(c) The water quality criteria for the protection against adverse aesthetic conditions, or site-specific modifications thereof, shall apply as follows:

(i) The “Inside Mixing Zone Maximum” and “Outside Mixing Zone Maximum” water quality criteria, or site-specific modifications thereof, shall apply to all water bodies.

(ii) The “Drinking” water quality criteria shall apply to all water bodies within five hundred yards of drinking water intakes.

(d) The “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria for the protection of agricultural uses, or site-specific modifications thereof, shall apply outside the mixing zone to all water bodies assigned the agricultural water supply use designation.

(e) The water quality criteria for the protection of recreational uses shall apply outside the mixing zone to all water bodies assigned a recreational use designation.

(5) For any pollutant for which it is demonstrated that a methodology or procedure cited in this chapter is not scientifically defensible, the director may apply an alternative methodology or procedure acceptable under 40 C.F.R. 131 when developing water quality criteria.

(6) Biological criteria presented in table 7-15 of this rule provide a direct measure of attainment of the warmwater habitat, exceptional warmwater habitat and modified warmwater habitat aquatic life uses. Biological criteria and the exceptions to chemical-specific or whole-effluent criteria allowed by this paragraph do not apply to any other use designations.

(a) Demonstrated attainment of the applicable biological criteria in a water body will take precedence over the application of selected chemical-specific aquatic life or whole-effluent criteria associated with these uses when the director, upon considering appropriately detailed chemical, physical and biological data, finds that one or more chemical-specific or whole-effluent criteria are inappropriate. In such cases the options which exist include:

(i) The director may develop, or a discharger may provide for the director’s approval, a justification for a site-specific water quality criterion according to methods described in “Water Quality Standards Handbook, 1983, U.S. EPA Office of Water”;

(ii) The director may proceed with establishing water quality based effluent limits consistent with attainment of the designated use.

(b) Demonstrated nonattainment of the applicable biological criteria in a water body with concomitant evidence that the associated chemical-specific aquatic life criteria and whole-effluent criteria are met will cause the director to seek and establish, if possible, the cause of the nonattainment of the designated use. The director shall evaluate the existing designated use and, where not attainable, propose to change the designated use. Where the designated use is attainable and the cause of the nonattainment has been established, the director shall, wherever necessary and appropriate, implement regulatory controls or make other recommendations regarding water resource management to restore the designated use. Additional regulatory controls shall not be imposed on point sources that are meeting all applicable chemical-specific and whole-effluent criteria unless:

(i) The point sources are shown to be the primary contributing cause of the nonattainment;

(ii) The application of additional or alternate treatment or technology can reasonably be expected to lead to attainment of the designated use; and

(iii) The director has given due consideration to the factors specified in division (J) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code.

(B) Use designations are defined as follows:

(1) Aquatic life habitat

(a) “Warmwater” – these are waters capable of supporting and maintaining a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of warmwater aquatic organisms having a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to the twenty-fifth percentile of the identified reference sites within each of the following ecoregions: the interior plateau ecoregion, the Erie/Ontario lake plains ecoregion, the western Allegheny plateau ecoregion and the eastern corn belt plains ecoregion. For the Huron/Erie lake plains ecoregion, the comparable species composition, diversity and functional organization are based upon the ninetieth percentile of all sites within the ecoregion. For all ecoregions, the attributes of species composition, diversity and functional organization will be measured using the index of biotic integrity, the modified index of well-being and the invertebrate community index as defined in “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume II, Users Manual for Biological Field Assessment of Ohio Surface Waters,” as cited in paragraph (B) of rule 3745-1-03 of the Administrative Code. In addition to those water body segments designated in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-32 of the Administrative Code, all upground storage reservoirs are designated warmwater habitats. Attainment of this use designation(except for upground storage reservoirs) is based on the criteria in table 7-15 of this rule. A temporary variance to the criteria associated with this use designation may be granted as described in paragraph (F) of rule 3745-1-01 of the Administrative Code.

(b) “Limited warmwater” – these are waters that were temporarily designated in the 1978 water quality standards as not meeting specific warmwater habitat criteria. Criteria for the support of this use designation are the same as the criteria for the support of the use designation warmwater habitat. However, individual criteria are varied on a case-by-case basis and supersede the criteria for warmwater habitat where applicable. Any exceptions from warmwater habitat criteria apply only to specific criteria during specified time periods and/or flow conditions. The adjusted criteria and conditions for specified stream segments are denoted as comments in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code. Stream segments currently designated limited warmwater habitats will undergo use attainability analyses and will be redesignated other aquatic life habitats. No additional stream segments will be designated limited warmwater habitats.

(c) “Exceptional warmwater” – these are waters capable of supporting and maintaining an exceptional or unusual community of warmwater aquatic organisms having a species composition, diversity, and functional organization comparable to the seventy-fifth percentile of the identified reference sites on a statewide basis. The attributes of species composition, diversity and functional organization will be measured using the index of biotic integrity, the modified index of well-being and the invertebrate community index as defined in “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume II, Users Manual for Biological Field Assessment of Ohio Surface Waters,” as cited in paragraph (B) of rule 3745-1-03 of the Administrative Code. In addition to those water body segments designated in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-32 of the Administrative Code, all lakes and reservoirs, except upground storage reservoirs, are designated exceptional warmwater habitats. Attainment of this use designation(except for lakes and reservoirs) is based on the criteria in table 7-15 of this rule. A temporary variance to the criteria associated with this use designation may be granted as described in paragraph (F) of rule 3745-1-01 of the Administrative Code.

(d) “Modified warmwater” – these are waters that have been the subject of a use attainability analysis and have been found to be incapable of supporting and maintaining a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of warmwater organisms due to irretrievable modifications of the physical habitat. Such modifications are of a long-lasting duration (i.e., twenty years or longer) and may include the following examples: extensive stream channel modification activities permitted under sections 401 and 404 of the act or Chapter 6131. of the Revised Code, extensive sedimentation resulting from abandoned mine land runoff, and extensive permanent impoundment of free-flowing water bodies. The attributes of species composition, diversity and functional organization will be measured using the index of biotic integrity, the modified index of well-being and the invertebrate community index as defined in “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume II, Users Manual for Biological Field Assessment of Ohio Surface Waters,” as cited in paragraph (B) of rule 3745-1-03 of the Administrative Code. Attainment of this use designation is based on the criteria in table 7-15 of this rule. Each water body designated modified warmwater habitat will be listed in the appropriate use designation rule(rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-32 of the Administrative Code) and will be identified by ecoregion and type of physical habitat modification as listed in table 7-15 of this rule. The modified warmwater habitat designation can be applied only to those waters that do not attain the warmwater habitat biological criteria in table 7-15 of this rule because of irretrievable modifications of the physical habitat. All water body segments designated modified warmwater habitat will be reviewed on a triennial basis (or sooner) to determine whether the use designation should be changed. A temporary variance to the criteria associated with this use designation may be granted as described in paragraph (F) of rule 3745-1-01 of the Administrative Code.

(e) “Seasonal salmonid” – these are rivers, streams and embayments capable of supporting the passage of salmonids from October to May and are water bodies large enough to support recreational fishing. This use will be in effect the months of October to May. Another aquatic life habitat use designation will be enforced the remainder of the year (June to September). A temporary variance to the criteria associated with this use designation may be granted as described in paragraph (F) of rule 3745-1-01 of the Administrative Code.

(f) “Coldwater” – these are waters that meet one or both of the characteristics described in paragraphs (B)(1)(f)(i) and (B)(1)(f)(ii) of this rule. A temporary variance to the criteria associated with this use designation may be granted as described in paragraph (F) of rule 3745-1-01 of the Administrative Code.

(i) “Coldwater habitat, inland trout streams” – these are waters which support trout stocking and management under the auspices of the Ohio department of natural resources, division of wildlife, excluding waters in lake run stocking programs, lake or reservoir stocking programs, experimental or trial stocking programs, and put and take programs on waters without, or without the potential restoration of, natural coldwater attributes of temperature and flow. The director shall designate these waters in consultation with the director of the Ohio department of natural resources.

(ii) “Coldwater habitat, native fauna” – these are waters capable of supporting populations of native coldwater fish and associated vertebrate and invertebrate organisms and plants on an annual basis. The director shall designate these waters based upon results of use attainability analyses.

(g) “Limited resource water” – these are waters that have been the subject of a use attainability analysis and have been found to lack the potential for any resemblance of any other aquatic life habitat as determined by the biological criteria in table 7-15 of this rule. The use attainability analysis must demonstrate that the extant fauna is substantially degraded and that the potential for recovery of the fauna to the level characteristic of any other aquatic life habitat is realistically precluded due to natural background conditions or irretrievable human-induced conditions. For water bodies in the Lake Erie drainage basin, the designation of water bodies as limited resource waters shall include demonstrations that the “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria and values and chronic whole effluent toxicity levels are not necessary to protect the designated uses and aquatic life pursuant to rule 3745-1-35 of the Administrative Code. All water body segments designated limited resource water will be reviewed on a triennial basis(or sooner) to determine whether the use designation should be changed. Limited resource waters are also termed nuisance prevention for some water bodies designated in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code. A temporary variance to the criteria associated with this use designation may be granted as described in paragraph (F) of rule 3745-1-01 of the Administrative Code. Waters designated limited resource water will be assigned one or more of the following causative factors. These causative factors will be listed as comments in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code.

(i) “Acid mine drainage” – these are surface waters with sustained pH values below 4.1 s.u. or with intermittently acidic conditions combined with severe streambed siltation, and have a demonstrated biological performance below that of the modified warmwater habitat biological criteria.

(ii) “Small drainageway maintenance” – these are highly modified surface water drainageways (usually less than three square miles in drainage area) that do not possess the stream morphology and habitat characteristics necessary to support any other aquatic life habitat use. The potential for habitat improvements must be precluded due to regular stream channel maintenance required for drainage purposes.

(iii) Other specified conditions.

(2) Nuisance prevention

This use designation is being replaced by the limited resource water use designation described in paragraph (A)(1)(g) of this rule. All water body segments currently designated nuisance prevention in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code must meet the limited resource water criteria in this rule. All references to the nuisance prevention use designation in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code will be phased out over time and replaced with limited resource water.

(3) Water supply

(a) “Public” – these are waters that, with conventional treatment, will be suitable for human intake and meet federal regulations for drinking water. Criteria associated with this use designation apply within five hundred yards of surface water intakes. Although not necessarily included in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code, the bodies of water with one or more of the following characteristics are designated public water supply:

(i) All publicly owned lakes and reservoirs, with the exception of Piedmont reservoir;

(ii) All privately owned lakes and reservoirs used as a source of public drinking water;

(iii) All surface waters within five hundred yards of an existing public water supply surface water intake;

(iv) All surface waters used as emergency water supplies.

(b) “Agricultural” – these are waters suitable for irrigation and livestock watering without treatment.

(c) “Industrial” – these are waters suitable for commercial and industrial uses, with or without treatment. Criteria for the support of the industrial water supply use designation will vary with the type of industry involved.

(4) Recreation

These use designations are in effect only during the recreation season, which is the period from May first to October thirty-first. The director may require effluent disinfection during the months outside the recreation season if necessary to protect an unusually high level of water based recreation activity such as, but not limited to, canoeing, kayaking, scuba diving, or sport fishing during spawning runs and, in the normal pursuit of the recreation activity, there is a strong likelihood of exposure to water borne pathogens through ingestion of water or from dermal exposure through fresh cuts or abrasions.

(a) “Bathing waters” – these are waters that, during the recreation season, are heavily used for swimming. The bathing water use applies to all waters in areas where a lifeguard or bathhouse facilities are present, and to any additional water bodies designated bathing waters in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-32 of the Administrative Code.

(b) “Primary contact” – these are waters that, during the recreation season, are suitable for one or more full-body contact recreation activities such as, but not limited to, wading, swimming, boating, water skiing, canoeing, kayaking, and scuba diving. Three classes of primary contact recreation use are defined to reflect differences in the observed and potential frequency and intensity of usage.

(i) Class A primary contact recreation. These are waters that support, or potentially support, frequent primary contact recreation activities. The following water bodies are designated as class A primary contact recreation waters:

(a) All lakes having publicly or privately improved access points; and

(b) All water bodies listed in table 7-16 of this rule.

[Comment: The streams and rivers listed in table 7-16 of this rule are popular paddling streams with public access points developed, maintained, and publicized by governmental entities.]

(ii) Class B primary contact recreation. These are waters that support, or potentially support, occasional primary contact recreation activities. All surface waters of the state are designated as class B primary contact recreation unless otherwise designated as bathing waters, class A primary contact recreation, class C primary contact recreation or secondary contact recreation.

(iii) Class C primary contact recreation. These are water bodies that support, or potentially support, infrequent primary contact recreation activities such as, but not limited to, wading. The following water bodies are designated class C primary contact recreation:

(a) All water body segments with drainage areas less than 3.1 square miles and meeting the definition in 6111.01 of the Revised Code of historically channelized watercourse, unless they are specifically designated a different recreational use in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code; and

(b) All water bodies specifically designated class C primary contact recreation in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code.

(c) “Secondary contact” – these are waters that result in minimal exposure potential to water borne pathogens because the waters are: rarely used for water based recreation such as, but not limited to, wading; situated in remote, sparsely populated areas; have restricted access points; and have insufficient depth to provide full body immersion, thereby greatly limiting the potential for water based recreation activities. Waters designated secondary contact recreation are identified in rules 3745-1-08 to 3745-1-30 of the Administrative Code.

(C) Protection of aquatic life – whole-effluent approach.

Whole-effluent toxicity levels shall be applied in accordance with rules 3745-2-09 and 3745-33-07 of the Administrative Code.

Table 7-1. Statewide water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-07_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-2. Warmwater habitat, modified warmwater habitat and limited resource water outside mixing zone maximum total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-3. Exceptional warmwater habitat outside mixing zone maximum total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-4. Coldwater habitat and seasonal salmonid habitat outside mixing zone maximum total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-5. Warmwater habitat outside mixing zone 30-day average total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-6. Exceptional warmwater habitat outside mixing zone 30-day average total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-7. Modified warmwater habitat outside mixing zone 30-day average total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-8. Coldwater habitat outside mixing zone 30-day average total ammonia-nitrogen criteria (mg/l).

Table 7-9. Statewide water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life for water hardness dependent criteria.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-10. Statewide water quality criteria for the protection of aquatic life for water pH dependent criteria.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-11. Statewide water quality criteria for the protection against adverse aesthetic conditions.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-12. Statewide water quality criteria for the protection of agricultural uses.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-13. Statewide numerical criteria for the protection of recreation uses. These criteria apply inside and outside the mixing zone at all times during the recreation season.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-14. Temperature criteria.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-15

Page 1 of 2. Biological criteria for warmwater, exceptional warmwater and modified warmwater habitats. Description and derivation of indices and ecoregions are contained in “Biological Criteria for the Protection of Aquatic Life: Volume II, Users Manual for Biological Field Assessment of Ohio Surface Waters” cited in paragraph (B) of rule 3745-1-03 of the Administrative Code. These criteria do not apply to the Ohio river, lakes or lake Erie river mouths.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Table 7-16. Popular paddling streams with identified public access points designated class A primary contact recreation. The class A designation extends from the most upstream identified public access point to the mouth. (From “Boating On Ohio Streams,” Ohio department of natural resources, division of watercraft. The description of these areas is on the Ohio department of natural resources website at http://www.dnr.state.oh.us/watercraft/areas/tabid/2306/default.aspx.)

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-05_PH_FF_A_RU_20091215_0802.pdf

Effective: 03/15/2010

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 12/30/2007

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 2/14/1978, 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/30/1987, 5/1/1990, 4/26/1997, 10/31/1997, 7/31/1998, 7/31/1999, 2/22/2002, 12/30/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 8-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of Ohio outlining the water body drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code. Figure 2 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Hocking river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 8-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Hocking river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-08_PH_FF_A_RU_20080123_0805.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Ohio drainage basins and associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code.

Figure 2. Hocking river drainage basin.

See Appendix at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-08_PH_FF_A_APP1_20080123_0805.pdf

Effective: 04/23/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 11/06/2007 and 04/23/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/21/1992, 7/31/1998, 7/21/2002, 4/1/2007

(A) The water bodies listed in table 9-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Scioto river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 9-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Scioto river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-09_PH_FF_A_RU_20090709_0850.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Scioto river drainage basin.

See Appendix at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-09_PH_FF_A_APP1_20090709_0850.pdf

Effective: 10/09/2009

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/29/2009 and 10/09/2014

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/5/1990, 4/21/1992, 9/30/1993, 4/26/1997, 7/31/1998, 7/31/1999, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002, 8/1/2007, 4/23/2008

(A) The water bodies listed in table 10-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Grand river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 10-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Grand river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Marsh creek * * * *

Mentor creek and Mentor marsh * * * * *

Black brook * * * *

Heisley creek * * * *

Grand river – headwaters to downstream of the U.S. rte. 422 upstream crossing (RM 98.5 ) + * * *

- downstream upper crossing of U.S. rte. 422 (RM 98.5 ) to lower crossing of U.S. rte. 422 (RM 95.5 ) + * * *

- U.S. rte. 422 to st. rte. 608 (RM 91.8 ) + + + +

- st. rte. 608 to Fobes rd. (RM 44.7 ) + + + +

- at RM 89.12 + o + + + PWS intake – West Farmington

- Fobes rd. to Harpersfield dam (RM 30.9 ) + + + +

- Harpersfield dam to st. rte. 2 (RM 5.5 ) + o + + +

- st. rte. 2 to the mouth * o * * *

Pebble branch * * * *

Red creek * o * * *

Big creek – headwaters to Girdled rd. (RM 7.1 ) + + + +

- Girdled road to the mouth + o + + +

Kellogg creek + o + + +

Ellison creek + o + + +

Jordan (Gordon) creek + + + +

East creek + + + +

Aylworth creek + + + +

Jenks creek + + + +

Cutts creek + + + +

Paine creek – headwaters to Paine falls (RM 2.9 ) + + + +

- Paine falls to the mouth + o + + +

Bates creek * + + +

Phelps creek + + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Paine creek RM 7.2 ) + + + + +

Talcott creek + + + +

Griswold creek * * * *

Mill creek – headwaters to Doty rd. (RM 1.5 ) o + + + +

- Doty rd. to the mouth + o + + +

Unnamed tributary (Mill creek RM 4.3 ) + + + +

Coffee creek + + + +

Center creek * * * *

Mill creek + + + +

Cemetery creek + + + +

Griggs creek * * * *

Askue run + + + +

Peters creek + + + +

Bronson creek + + + +

Trumbull creek – headwaters to Windsor-Mechanicsville rd. (RM 3.4 ) + + + +

- Windsor-Mechanicsville rd. to the mouth + + + +

Spring creek + + + +

Three Brothers creek + + + +

Badger run * * * *

Rock creek + + + +

Plum creek * * * *

Sugar creek * * * *

Whetstone creek + + + +

Lebanon creek + + + +

Shanty creek * * * *

Snyder ditch (Rock creek RM 15.17 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

Crooked creek – headwaters to Windsor-Mechanicsville rd. (RM 2.5 ) + + +

- Windsor-Mechanicsville rd. to the mouth + + + +

Mud creek * * * *

Hoskins creek – headwaters to Hurlburt rd. (RM 2.0 ) + + + +

- Hurlburt rd. to the mouth + + + +

Indian creek + + + +

Montville ditch * * * *

Phelps creek – North branch / South branch confluence (RM 8.62 ) to st. rte. 534 (RM 2.1 ) + + + +

- st. rte. 534 to the mouth + + + +

North branch + + + +

South branch + + + +

Mill creek – South Windsor rd. (RM 4.56 ) to st. rte. 534 (RM 1.78 ) + + + +

- st. rte. 534 to the mouth + + + +

Garden creek + + + +

Swine creek – headwaters to Girdle rd. (RM 7.07 ) + + + +

- Girdle rd. to the mouth + + + +

Grapevine creek * * * *

Andrews creek + + + +

Plum creek + + + +

Coffee creek * * * *

Baughman creek + + + +

Center creek + + + +

Mud run + + + +

Dead branch * * * *

McKinley creek * * * *

Big creek * * * *

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/21/1992, 7/31/1998, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002, 4/23/2008

(A) The water bodies listed in table 11-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Maumee river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 11-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Maumee river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-11_PH_FF_A_RU_20090709_0850.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Maumee river drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-11_PH_FF_A_APP1_20090709_0850.pdf

Effective: 10/09/2009

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/29/2009 and 10/09/2014

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 7/28/1986, 9/20/1988, 9/30/1993, 4/26/1997, 7/31/1999, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002, 4/1/2007

(A) The water bodies listed in table 12-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Sandusky river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 12-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Sandusky river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Muddy creek + + + +

Little Muddy creek + + + +

Fishing creek + + + +

Gries ditch + + + +

North branch + * * *

South branch + * * *

Sandusky river – at RMs 18.02, 41.08, 82.9, 83.15 and 115.45 + o + + + PWS intakes – Fremont (RM 18.02 ), Tiffin (RM 41.08 ), Upper Sandusky (RMs 82.9 and 83.15 ), and Bucyrus (RM 115.45 )

- upstream Roger Young memorial park (RM 16.8 ) to Muskellunge creek (RM 9.37 ) + + + +

- Ella st. dam (RM 42.1 ) to RM 19.0 (upstream from Fremont) + + + +

- RM 45.0 to Ella st. dam (RM 42.1 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – impounded

- headwaters to RM 45.0 + + + +

- all other segments * * * *

Yellow slough * * * *

Green creek – confluence with Beaver creek (RM 20.4 ) to st. rte. 20 (RM 10.1 ) + + + + Native fauna

- all other segments + + + +

Flag run * * * *

Beaver creek – at RM 2.88 + o + + + PWS intake – Clyde

- all other segments + + + +

Owl creek * * * *

Emerson creek + + + +

Royer ditch + + + +

Westerhouse ditch + + + +

Albright ditch * * * *

Noel ditch * * * *

Bark creek + + + +

Muskellunge creek + + + +

Indian creek * * * *

Wolf creek * * * *

East branch * * * *

Snuff creek * * * *

East branch * * * *

Middle branch * * * *

John Smith ditch (East branch Wolf cr. RM 20.37 ) + * * + Small drainageway maintenance

Michael Gruss ditch (John Smith ditch RM 3.97 ) + * * + Small drainageway maintenance.

Sugar creek * * * *

Spicer creek * * * *

Morrison creek * * * *

Willow creek * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Willow creek RM 0.88 ) o o Small drainageway maintenance.

Rock creek + + + +

East branch * * * *

Armstrong & Beighly ditch * * * *

Carpenter ditch * * * *

Gibson creek * * * *

Bells run * * * *

Honey creek – at RM 28.35 * o * * * PWS intake – Attica

- co. rte. 19 (RM 1.1 ) to the mouth + + + + HELP ecoregion – impounded

- all other segments * * * *

Buckeye creek + + + +

Silver creek * * * *

Slee ditch (Silver creek RM 0.72 ) + + + +

Eicholtz ditch * * * *

Kagy ditch * * * *

Bolinger ditch * * * *

Hedden ditch * * * *

Hooper ditch * * * *

Schaaf ditch * * * *

Brokenknife creek * * * *

Kibler ditch (Brokenknife creek RM 5.27 ) + * * + Small drainageway maintenance

Unnamed tributary (Brokenknife creek RM 5.50 ) – at RM 2.15 o PWS intake – New Washington

Mile run + + + +

Sycamore creek + + + +

Greasy run * * * *

Spring creek (Sycamore creeek RM 12.92 ) + + + +

Taylor run * * * *

Thorn run * * * *

Tymochtee creek + + + +

Spring run * * * *

Poverty run + + + +

No. 32 ditch * * * *

Little Tymochtee creek * * * *

Hart ditch * * * *

Browns run * * * *

Veith ditch * * * *

Lick run * * * *

Baughman run * * * *

Blake ditch * * * *

Perkins run * * * *

Oak run * * * *

Sugar run * * * *

Warpole creek * * * *

St. James run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Tymochtee creek RM 40.30 ) + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification.

Little Tymochtee creek * * * *

Reevhorn run * * * *

Pawpaw run * * * *

Pawpaw run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Pawpaw run RM 4.17 ) + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification.

Carroll ditch + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification.

Enoch creek + + + +

Blood run + + + +

Prairie run + + + +

Thompson ditch + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification.

Layton ditch * * * *

Sugar run + + + +

Negro run + + + +

Spring branch + + + +

Kiser run * * * *

Porcupine creek * * * *

Cranberry run * * * *

Rock run + + + +

Little Sandusky river + + + +

Honey run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (little Sandusky river RM 8.93 ) + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification.

Broken Sword creek + + + +

Indian run * * * *

Brandywine creek * * * *

Red run * * * *

Grass run * * * *

Gray Eye run + + + +

West north Robinson run (Sandusky river RM 121.19 ) + + + +

East north Robinson run (Sandusky river RM 122.09 ) + + + +

Loss creek + + + +

South fork + + + +

Paramour creek + + + +

Crestline STP tributary (Westerly creek / Paramour creek RM 1.92 ) * * * *

Crestline tributary (West Crestline tributary / Paramour creek RM 2.88 ) * * * *

PPG tributary (Paramour creek RM 5.13 ) + + + +

Allen run + + + +

South creek + + + +

+                                                +  +          +

Raccoon creek – at RM 13.1 + + + + + + PWS intake – Clyde (formerly)

- all other segments + + + +

+                                                +  +      +

Little Raccoon creek + + + +

Buck creek + + + +

Pickerel creek + + + +

Strong creek * * * *

Fuller creek * * * *

Little Pickerel creek + + + + Inland trout stream

Cold creek – Blue Hole (RM 4.28 ) to confluence with Lake Erie + + + + Inland trout stream

- all other segments * * * *

Cold creek tributaries downstream of Blue Hole * * * *

Mills creek + + + +

Caswell ditch (Mills creek RM 3.95 ) + + + + +

Snyders ditch – at RMs 5.0 and 5.5 + o + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification; PWS intakes – Bellevue.

- all other segments + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification.

Pipe creek + + + +

Plum brook * * * *

Sawmill creek + + + +

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 7/28/1986, 4/21/1992, 4/26/1997, 7/31/1998, 7/21/2002, 4/1/2007

(A) The water bodies listed in table 13-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the central Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 13-1. Use designations for water bodies in the central Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

For Table – To obtain the appendix, table, image, etc. please call LSC’s ERF Helpdesk at 614-387-2078 or send an email to erfhelpdesk@lsc.state.oh.us.

Appendix A

Figure 1. Central Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

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Eff 4-4-85; 8-19-85; 5-6-93; 4-26-97; 7-31-99; 7-21-02

Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03

Rule authorized by: RC 6111.041

Rule amplifies: RC 6111.041

R.C. Section 119.032 rule review dates: 4/27/99, 9/19/01, 7/21/07

(A) The water bodies listed in table 14-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Ashtabula river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (I.E., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 14-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Ashtabula river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-14_PH_FYR_C_RU_20070723_1332.pdf

Appendix A

Figure 1. Ashtabula river drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-14_PH_FYR_C_APP1_20070723_1332.pdf

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/23/2007 and 07/23/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/21/1992, 9/23/1992, 7/31/1998, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 15-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the little Beaver creek drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

O Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 15-1. Use designations for water bodies in the little Beaver creek drainage basin.

For Table – To obtain the appendix, table, image, etc. please call LSC’s ERF Helpdesk at 614-387-2078 or send an email to erfhelpdesk@lsc.state.oh.us.

Appendix A

Figure Little Beaver creek drainage basin.

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Effective: 04/01/2007

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/25/2006 and 04/01/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 7/28/1986, 4/21/1992, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 16-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the southeast Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (I.E., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 16-1. Use designations for water bodies in the southeast Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-16_PH_FYR_C_RU_20070723_1332.pdf

Appendix A

Figure 1. Southeast Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-16_PH_FYR_C_APP1_20070723_1332.pdf

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/23/2007 and 07/23/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 9/20/1988, 4/21/1992, 7/31/1998, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 17-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the southwest Ohio tributaries drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 17-1. Use designations for water bodies in the southwest Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-17_PH_FF_A_RU_20090709_0850.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Southwest Ohio tributaries drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-17_PH_FF_A_APP1_20090709_0850.pdf

Effective: 10/09/2009

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/29/2009 and 10/09/2014

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 1/3/1989, 4/5/1990, 4/21/1992, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 18-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the little Miami river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 18-1. Use designations for water bodies in the little Miami river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-18_PH_FF_A_RU_20090709_0850.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Little Miami river drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-18_PH_FF_A_APP1_20090709_0850.pdf

Effective: 10/09/2009

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/29/2009 and 10/09/2014

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 1/3/1989, 4/26/1997, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 19-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Huron river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 19-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Huron river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Huron river – East branch/West branch confluence to Lake Erie + + + + +

Mud creek * * * *

Village creek + + + +

Rattlesnake creek + + + +

West branch (Rattlesnake creek RM 0.28 ) + + + +

East branch + + + +

Norwalk creek – at RMs 0.11 and 4.02 + o + + + PWS intake – Norwalk

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Norwalk creek RM 0.38 ) + + + +

Cole creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Cole creek RM 2.46 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (East branch RM 19.98 ) + + + +

West branch – at RMs 8.52 and 33.8 + o + + + PWS intakes – Monroeville (RM 8.52 ) and Willard (RM 33.8 )

- all other segments + + + +

Clayton ditch (West branch RM 0.4 ) – Higbee rd. (RM 2.85 ) to the mouth + + + +

Seymour creek + + + +

Megginson creek + + + +

Frink run – at RM 4.83 + o + + + PWS intake – Bellevue

- all other segments + + + +

Haas ditch * * * *

Schoeffel ditch * * * *

Slate run + + + +

Mud run (East branch) + + + +

Mud run (West branch) + + + +

Shriner run * * * *

Holiday tributary (West branch RM 23.09 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Holiday tributary RM 2.8 ) + + + +

Jacobs creek + + + +

Walnut creek (West branch RM 33.05 ) + + + +

Marsh run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (West branch RM 41.50 ) + + + +

Old Woman creek – estuary o + + + +

- within boundaries of Old Woman preserve o + +

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Old Woman creek RM 3.70 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Old Woman creek RM 8.82 ) + + + +

Cranberry creek * * * *

Chappel creek + + + +

Sugar creek + + + +

Darby creek * * * *

Sherod creek * * * *

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 7/21/2002, 4/1/2007

(A) The water bodies listed in table 20-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Rocky river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 20-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Rocky river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-20_PH_FF_A_RU_20080123_0805.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Rocky river drainage basin.

See Appendix at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-20_PH_FF_A_APP1_20080123_0805.pdf

Effective: 04/23/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 11/06/2007 and 04/23/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 21-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Great Miami river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 21-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Great Miami river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Great Miami river – CSX RR bridge (RM 84.5 ) to the Troy dam (RM 107.0 ) + + + +

- at RMs 86.6, 90.3, 118.5 and 130.2 + + + + + PWS intakes – Dayton (RMs 86.6 and 90.3 ), Piqua (RM 118.5 ), and Sidney (RM 130.2 )

- RM 108.0 to downstream of Piqua dam (RM 114.0 ) + + + +

- st. rte. 66 (RM 116.7 ) to the Sidney water works dam (RM 130.2 ) + + + +

- Pasco-Montra rd. (RM 134.8 ) to the Quincy dam (RM 143.4 ) + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Doublelick run * * * *

Whitewater river + + + +

Sand run * * * *

Dry fork – Ohio-Indiana state line (RM 20.66 ) to RM 19.6 * * * *

- RM 19.6 to Atherton rd. (RM 10.2 ) + + + +

- Atherton rd. to the mouth + + + +

- within Miami Whitewater forest boundaries * + + + +

Lee creek * * * *

Howard creek * * * *

Kiata creek + + + +

Sater run * * * *

Phillips creek * * * *

Jamison creek * * * *

East fork – headwaters to Little creek (RM 41.7 ) + + + +

- Little creek to state line + + + +

Elkhorn creek * * * *

Mud creek * * * *

Horn ditch * * * *

Rocky fork * * * *

Little creek * * * *

Brinley fork * * * *

Jocqueway creek * * * *

Dry run * * * *

Jordan creek * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Great Miami river RM 13.23 ) + + + +

Taylor creek + + + +

Wessleman creek + + + +

Briarly creek + + + +

Steele creek + + + +

Paddy’s run + + + +

Bluerock creek + + + +

Owl creek * * * *

Dunlap run * * * *

Dry run * * * *

Indian creek * + + + +

Lick run + + + +

Salmon run * + + + +

Reserve run + + + +

Little Indian creek + + + +

Banklick creek * * * *

Pleasant run * * * *

Crawford run * * * *

Two Mile creek * * * *

Shaffer creek * * * *

Fourmile creek – headwaters to confluence with Acton lake * + + + +

- Darrtown rd. (RM 13.0 ) to Sevenmile ave. (RM 0.4 ) + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Sevenmile creek – Paint creek (RM 15.2 ) to the mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Ninemile creek * * * *

Big Cave run + + + +

Rush run + + + +

Paint creek * + + + +

Opossum run * * * *

Sugar run * * * *

Beasley run + + + +

Pottenger run + + + +

Rocky run + + + +

Periwinkle run + + + +

Becketts run * * * *

Stony run + + + +

Darrs run + + + +

Collins creek + + + +

Bull run * * * *

Harkers run + + + +

Elams run (Tolland creek) (Fourmile creek RM 18.80 ) + + + +

Spring run (Fourmile creek RM 20.19 ) * * * *

Morning Sun tributary north (Fourmile creek RM 23.57 ) + + + +

Morning Sun tributary south (Morning Sun tributary north RM 0.25 ) + + + +

Little Fourmile creek * + + + +

Fleisch run + + + +

East fork * + + + +

Dixon branch (Harris run) * + + + +

Brentwood tributary * * * *

Greencrest tributary * * * *

Gregory creek * * * *

Coldwater creek * * * *

Dicks creek – Cincinnati-Dayton rd. (RM 5.4 ) to Yankee rd. (RM 2.4 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Monroe ditch (Dicks creek RM 2.65 ) – headwaters to the Middletown corporate boundary (RM 0.8 ) + + + +

North branch – headwaters to Breiel blvd. (RM 1.0 ) + + + +

- Breiel blvd. to mouth + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Shaker creek + + + +

Millers creek + + + +

Elk creek + + + +

Browns run * * * *

Twin creek + + + +

Little Twin creek + + + +

Reigle ditch + + + +

Toms run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Toms run RM 5.34 ) + + + +

Wysong run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Twin Creek RM 18.29 ) + + + +

Aukerman creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Aukerman creek RM 2.88 ) + + + +

Bantas fork + + + +

Goose creek – downstream Winnerline rd. (RM 3.0 ) to the mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Lowry run * * * *

Lesley run + + + +

Coffman run * * * *

Price creek – Brennersville Pyrmont rd. (RM 2.88 ) to the mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Jims run * * * *

Swamp creek – downstream Sonora rd. (RM 4.0 ) to the mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Swamp creek RM 6.45 ) + + + +

Millers fork – headwaters to Otterbein Ithica rd. (RM 9.65 ) + + + +

- Otterbein Ithica rd. to the mouth + + + +

Lick run * * * *

Dry fork + + + +

Maple swamp ditch – unnamed tributary at RM 1.71 to the mouth + + + +

Clear creek * * * *

Gander run * * * *

Goose creek * * * *

Dry run * * * *

Crains run * * * *

Mound overflow creek (Great Miami river RM 65.08 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – impounded

Bear creek + + + +

Little Bear creek * * * *

Garber run * * * *

Diehl run * * * *

Lick run * * * *

Spring run * * * *

Owl creek + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Opossum creek * * * * *

Holes creek + + + +

Wolf creek + + + +

Dry run + + + +

North branch * * * *

Razor run * * * *

Poplar run * * * *

Mad river – headwaters to Buck creek (RM 26.15 ) + + + +

- at RMs 5.2 and 5.6 + + + + + PWS intakes – Dayton

- Buck creek to the mouth + + + +

Hebble run + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Mud run + + + +

Clear creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Mud run RM 9.8 ) + + + +

Mud creek + + + +

Dry Lick run + + + +

Smith ditch * * * *

Rubsam ditch (Mad river RM 13.33 ) * * * *

Medway creek (Mad river RM 14.29 ) + * * +

Jackson creek + + + +

Donnels creek + + + +

East fork + + + +

Rock run + + + +

Miller creek + + + +

Mill creek + + + +

Buck creek – park boundaries between C.J. Brown reservoir and the mouth + + + + +

- headwaters to C.J. Brown reservoir + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Beaver creek + + + +

Sinking creek + + + +

East fork + + + +

Dugan ditch + + + +

Pandy creek * + + + +

Dry run * + + + +

Moore run + + + +

Kenton creek + + + *

Chapman creek + + + +

Panther creek * * * * *

Deer creek * + + + +

Blacksnake creek * + + + +

Storms creek * + + + +

Cedar run + + + +

East branch + * * +

West branch + * * +

Cedar bog * * * * *

Bogles run * * * * *

Stony creek * * + + +

Bull branch * * * * *

Nettle creek – RM 8.2 to the mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Anderson creek + + + +

Russell creek * + + + +

Harban creek * + + + +

Hog creek * + + + +

Owens creek * + + + +

St. Paris tributary (Nettle creek RM 8.8 ) + + + +

Dugan run + + + +

Muddy creek + + + +

Spring run * + + + +

Kings creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Kings creek RM 0.46 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Kings creek RM 4.97 )

Unnamed tributary (unnamed tributary RM 3.18 ) + + + +

Glady creek * + + + +

Mac-a-cheek ditch + + + +

West Liberty tributary (Mad river RM 51.06 ) + + + +

Mac-o-chee creek + + + +

Hefflefinger ditch (Mad river RM 52.23 ) + + + +

Peters ditch (Mad river RM 58.82 ) + + + +

Sugar creek + + + +

Stillwater river – at RM 18 + + + + + PWS intake – West Milton (formerly)

- Steffen rd. (RM 52.36 ) to the mouth + + + +

- Woodington run (RM 59.13 ) to Steffen rd. + + + +

- headwaters to Woodington run + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 6.4 ) + + + +

Pigeye creek + + + +

Mill creek + + + +

Brush creek + + + +

Unnamed tributaries * * * *

Jones run + + + +

Ludlow creek – headwaters to Darke county line (RM 8.0 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Brush creek – RM 0.5 to the mouth * + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Shank ditch * * * *

Hog run + + + +

Baker ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Feitshams ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Browns ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Unnamed tributary (Ludlow creek RM 11.8 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Rocky run * * * *

Opossum run + + + +

Canyon run * * * *

Painter creek – headwaters to Darke county line (RM 5.5 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- Darke county line to the mouth + + + +

Little Painter creek + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Heller ditch + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Greenville creek – at RM 22.3 + + + + + PWS intake – Greenville

- Bridge creek (RM 17.8 ) to Wildcat rd. (RM 24.6 ) + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

McQuay ditch + + + +

Poplar ditch + + + +

Bolton run + + + +

Dividing branch + + + +

Bridge creek + + + +

Mud creek – at RM 0.88 + + + + + PWS intake – Greenville

- all other segments + + + +

Bitch run + + + +

Lake Branch ditch + + + +

Prairie outlet + + + +

West branch + + + +

Spring branch + + + +

Kraut creek + + + +

North fork + + + +

Dismal creek + + + +

Elson ditch * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 32.6 ) + + + +

Harris run – headwaters to Darke county line (RM 5.2 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Ballinger run – headwaters to Darke county line (RM 1.7 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Harris run RM 8.05 ) + + + +

Trotters creek + + + +

Sigmon ditch + + + +

Orr ditch + + + +

Bennett ditch + + + +

Apple ditch + + + +

Rudy ditch + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 38.3 ) + + + +

Swamp creek – headwaters to Pittsenbanger rd. (RM 6.5 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- Pittsenbanger road to the mouth + + + +

Indian creek – headwaters to Conover (RM 1.93 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Swamp creek RM 3.54 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Grassy Fork creek + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 51.0 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Unnamed tributary RM 2.5 ) + + + +

Boyd creek + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Boyd creek RM 2.46 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Boyd creek RM 2.67 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 54.45 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 57.2 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

North fork + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Sycamore ditch (North fork RM 0.67 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Woodington run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 60.2 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

South fork + + + +

Unnamed tributary (South fork RM 0.94 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Stillwater river RM 64.9 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Poplar creek * * * *

North creek – headwaters to Dixie road (RM 2.0 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

- Dixie road to mouth (Great Miami river RM 95.8 ) + + + +

Deer Cliff run + + + +

Inland tnbutary + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Cox Airport tnbutary + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Honey creek + + + +

Indian creek * * * *

Dry creek * * * *

West fork * * * *

East fork * * * *

Lost creek + + + +

East branch * * * *

Boone creek (Great Miami nver RM 103.87 )

Peters creek

North branch + + + +

B.F. Goodnch ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Spring creek + + + +

Garbry creek * * * *

Rush creek * * * *

Shawnee creek * * * *

McKee branch * * * *

McIntire run – at RM 0.38 * o * * * PWS intake – Piqua

- all other segments * * * *

Patterson run * * * *

Levering run * * * *

Loramie creek + + + +

Mill creek * * * *

Fox creek * * * *

Turtle creek + + + +

East Turtle creek * * * *

Kiser ditch * * * *

Ninemile creek – headwaters to co. rte. 14 (RM 4.2 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Painter creek * * * *

East Painter creek * * * *

Mile creek + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Spring creek + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Honsapple ditch * * * *

Miami and Erie canal (Loramie creek RM 20.78 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Keppler ditch * * * *

Clay creek (Applegate ditch) + * * * ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Hulls creek (Fridley ditch) * * * *

Mill branch * * * *

Brush creek * * * *

Tawawa creek – at RM 0.14 + + + + * PWS intake – Sidney

- all other segments + + + *

Mosquito creek * * * *

Leatherwood creek * * * *

Plum creek + + + +

Manning run * * * *

Line run * * * *

Counts run * * * *

Turkeyfoot creek * * * *

Little Turkeyfoot creek * * * *

Indian creek + + + +

Little Indian creek * * * *

Speece & Lovett ditch * * * *

Stony creek + + + +

Lee creek + + + +

Graves creek + + + +

McKee creek + + + + +

Bokengehalas creek + + + +

Bluejacket creek – headwaters to Opossum run (RM 5.8 ) + + + +

- Opossum run to the mouth + + + +

Possum run + + + +

Rum creek + + + +

Hodge ditch * * * *

Howell ditch * * * *

Shroyer ditch * * * *

Indian creek * * * *

Brandywine creek + + + +

Muchinippi creek + + + +

Calico creek * * * *

Little Muchinippi creek + + + +

Wolf creek * * * *

Baughman ditch * * * *

Jackson Center creek + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Willow creek + + + +

Rennick creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Great Miami river RM 157.34 ) + + + + ECBP ecoregion – channel modification

Cherokee Mans run + + + +

South fork Great Miami river + + + +

New Richland tributary + + + +

Slow ditch (Liggitt ditch) + + + +

Belle Center tributary + + + +

North fork Great Miami river + + + +

Blackhawk run + + + +

Van Horn creek + + + +

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/5/1990, 4/21/1992, 9/30/1993, 4/26/1997, 7/31/1999, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002, 4/1/2007, 4/23/2008

(A) The water bodies listed in table 23-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Portage river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 22-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Chagrin river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-22_PH_FF_A_RU_20080123_0805.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Chagrin river drainage basin.

See Appendix at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-22_PH_FF_A_APP1_20080123_0805.pdf

Effective: 04/23/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 11/06/2007 and 04/23/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/5/1990, 9/30/1993, 7/31/1998, 7/21/2002, 4/1/2007

(A) The water bodies listed in table 23-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Portage river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 23-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Portage river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Otter creek – headwaters to 0.2 miles downstream of E. Broadway (RM 7.0 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

- RM 7.0 to mouth + + + + HELP ecoregion – channel modification

Driftmeyer ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Amlosch ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Berger ditch

Wolf ditch + + + +

Cedar creek + + + +

Williams ditch (Cedar creek RM 0.05) + + + +

Wolf creek (Williams ditch RM 3.5) * * * *

Dry creek + + + +

Little Cedar creek * * * *

Crane creek + + + +

Ayers creek * * * *

Little Crane creek * * * *

Henry creek + + + +

Two Root creek * * * *

Turtle creek + + + +

North branch + + + +

South branch + + + +

Toussaint river + + + +

Rushaw creek * * * *

Toussaint creek + + + +

Packer creek + + + +

Lacarpe creek – headwaters to Tettau rd. (RM 2.6 ) + * * + Small drainageway maintenance

- Tettau rd. to the mouth * * * *

Portage river + + + +

Little Portage river + + + +

Ninemile creek + + + +

Lacarpe creek * * * *

Wolf creek + + + +

Sugar creek + + + +

Coon creek (Sugar creek RM 12.4 ) + + + +

North branch + + + +

Poe ditch + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Middle branch + + + +

Bull creek + + + +

Rocky ford – at RMs 10.66 and 11.10 + + + + + PWS intakes – North Baltimore

- all other segments + + + +

Fenburg tributary 1 (Rocky ford RM 10.75 ) + + + +

Fenburg tributary 2 (Fenburg tributary 1 RM 1.99 ) + + + +

Needles creek + + + +

Rader creek – at RM 13.57 + o + + + PWS intake – McComb

- all other segments + + + +

South branch + + + +

East branch – at RMs 13.84 and 16.15 + o + + + PWS intakes – Fostoria

- all other segments + + + +

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 4/21/1992, 7/21/2002, 4/23/2008

(A) The water bodies listed in table 24-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Muskingum river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 24-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Muskingum river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Swan run * * * *

Dunfee run * * * *

Sawyer run * * * *

Little Hocking river + + + +

West branch * * * *

Laurel run * * * *

Gilbert run * * * *

Burnett run * * * *

Falls creek * * * *

Little West branch * * * *

Mill branch * * * *

East branch * * * *

Tupper creek * * * *

Davis creek * * * *

Congress run * * * *

Crooked creek * * * *

Mile run * * * *

Dodge run * * * *

Muskingum river – confluence of Walhonding and Tuscarawas rivers to rte. 83 bridge o * * *

- all other segments * * * *

Indian run * * * *

Tupper creek * * * *

Devol run * * * *

Bucks run * * * *

Russet run * * * *

Rainbow creek * * * *

March run * * * *

Bear creek * * * *

Cat creek * * * *

Right branch * * * *

Bear run * * * *

Mason run * * * *

Big run * * * *

Straight run * * * *

Little Cold run * * * *

Cushing run and tributaries *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids, pH, iron and zinc criteria.

Congress run * * * *

Culver run * * * *

Sugar run * * * *

Wolf creek * * * * *

Hayward run * * * * *

Duck creek * * * * *

Bosman run * * * * *

Flint run * * * * *

South branch * * * * *

Painter run * * * * *

Southwest fork * * * * *

South fork * * * * *

Browns run * * * * *

Turkeyhen run * * * * *

Horse run * * * * *

Halfway run * * * * *

Chainey run * * * * *

West branch * * * * *

Lucas run * * * * *

Whitewater creek * * * * *

Laurel run * * * * *

Coal run * * * * *

Shrader run * * * * *

North branch * * * * *

Buckeye run * * * * *

Mile run * * * * *

Aldridge run * * * * *

Scott run * * * * *

Lick run * * * * *

McPherson run * * * * *

Goshen creek * * * * *

Browns run * * * * *

Little Wolf creek * * * * *

Chaneyville run * * * * *

Buck run * * * * *

Pleasant run * * * * *

Hedgehog creek * * * * *

Kickapoo creek * * * * *

Peeper run * * * * *

Thompson run * * * *

Sherman run * * * *

Olive Green creek * * * * *

Cow run * * * * *

Elk run * * * * *

Little Olive Green creek * * * * *

Scott run * * * * *

Allen run * * * * *

Stony creek * * * * *

Reasoners run * * * * *

Keith fork * * * * *

Limestone run * * * * *

Sharon fork * * * * *

Dinner fork * * * * *

Andrews run * * * *

Meigs creek * * * *

Onion run * * * *

Luck run * * * *

Perry run * * * *

Fourmile run * * * *

Little Fourmile run * * * *

Dyes fork * * * *

Horse run * * * *

Brannons fork * * * *

Sugartree run * * * *

Jewett run * * * *

Blanchard run * * * *

Tyson run * * * *

Mans fork * * * *

Bear run * * * *

Guyst fork * * * *

Marshall creek * * * *

Starrett creek * * * *

Olney run * * * *

Cabin run * * * *

Madison run * * * *

Mill run * * * *

Turkey run * * * *

Bald Eagle run * * * * *

Simpson run * * * *

Dry run * * * *

Hooks run * * * *

Manns run * * * *

Sherwood run * * * *

Doudna run * * * *

Slemmons creek * * * *

Millers run * * * *

Salt run * * * *

Oilspring run * * * *

North branch * * * *

Moores run * * * *

Island run + + + +

South branch + + + +

Big Bottom run + + + +

Cedar run * * * *

Crow run * * * *

Bluerock creek + + + + +

Little Bluerock creek + + + +

Back run * + + +

Fox run * * * *

Dry Riffle run * + + +

Duncan run * + + +

Little Duncan run + + + +

Salt creek + + + +

Manns fork – at RM 6.77 + o + + + PWS intake – Blue Rock state park

- all other segments + + + +

Kent run + + + +

Boggs creek + + + +

Indian run + + + +

Buffalo fork + + + +

Williams fork + + + +

Lepage run * * * *

White Eyes creek + + + +

Pleasant run + + + +

Little Salt creek + + + +

Frog run + + + +

Georges run + + + +

Prairie fork * + + +

Sycamore hollow run + + + +

Brush creek + + + +

Baughman run + + + +

Turkey run + + + +

Goose run + + + +

Flat run + + + +

Moxahala creek – headwaters to Jonathan creek (RM 4.54 ) + + + + Acid mine drainage.

- Jonathan creek to the mouth + + + +

Shawnee run + + + +

Jonathan creek – st. rte. 204 (RM 27.08 ) to the mouth + + + +

- headwaters to st. rte. 204 + + + +

Thompson run – headwaters to Coopermill rd. (RM 4.73 ) + + + +

- Coopermill rd. to the mouth + + + +

Hibbs run + + + + +

Kent run – at RM 1.3 + o + + + PWS intake – Maysville

- all other segments + + + +

Salt run + + + +

Buckeye fork + + + + Acid mine drainage.

Bush creek + + + +

Twomile run *L + + + Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids, pH, iron and zinc criteria.

Butcherknife creek + + + + Acid mine drainage.

Turkey run + + + +

Painter run + + + + WAP ecoregion – channel modification

Unnamed tributary (Jonathan creek RM 13.74 ) + + + +

Painter creek (Jonathan creek RM 16.88 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Jonathan creek RM 19.47 ) + + + +

Valley run * + + + +

Berry run * * * * *

Bowling Green creek + + + +

Morrison run o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Porter run o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Elk run o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Riders run o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Burley run o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Snake run o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Black fork – headwaters to south Morgan county line (RM 2.8 ) + + + +

- at RM 4.69 + o + + + PWS intake – Crooksville

- RM 2.8 to mouth + + + + Acid mine drainage.

Dry run – at RM 2.23 *L o * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids, pH, iron and zinc criteria. PWS intake – Crooksville.

- all other segments *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids, pH, iron and zinc criteria.

Ogg creek – headwaters to former Jones lake outlet (RM 1.4 ) + + + +

- RM 1.4 to mouth + + + + WAP ecoregion – mine affected

McLuney creek o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Bear creek o + + + Acid mine drainage.

Unnamed tributary (Moxahala creek RM 22.56 ) + + + + WAP ecoregion – mine affected

Andrews run (Moxahala creek RM 24.79 ) + + + + Acid mine drainage.

Chaps run * * * *

Licking river – Dillon lake (RM 12.7 to 6.2 ) + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Timber run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Timber run RM 5.02 ) + + + +

Joes run + + + +

Bartlett run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Barlett run RM 2.76 ) + + + +

Big run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Big run RM 1.30 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Big run RM 2.63 ) + + + +

Poverty run + + + +

Stump run + + + +

Brushy fork + + + +

Rocky fork – East branch to mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Lost run + + + *

Wilkins run + + + *

Smokyrow run + + + *

Painter run + + + *

Long run + + + *

Claylick creek + + + +

Little Claylick creek + + + +

Bowling Green run + + + *

Equality run + + + *

Shawnee run + + + *

Quarry run * * * *

South fork + + + +

Raccoon creek + + + +

Salt run + + + *

Lobdell creek – Crouse-Willison rd. (RM 10.3 ) to the mouth + + + +

- unnamed tributary (Lobdell creek RM 13.79 ) to Crouse-Willison rd. + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- headwaters to RM 13.79 + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Unnamed tributary (Lobdell creek RM 13.79 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Moots run + + + +

Simpson run + + + *

Pet run + + + *

Kiber run + + + *

Unnamed tributary (Raccoon creek RM 27.39 ) – headwaters to Hartford township line (RM 2.2 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

- all other segments + + + +

Dutch fork + + + +

Swamp run * * * *

Hog run * * * *

Quarry run * * * *

Ramp creek + + + +

Beaver run + + + +

Wastewier run (South fork RM 12.83 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

Buckeye lake * + + +

Honey creek + + + +

Reservoir feeder + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

Bell run + + + *

Muddy fork + + + +

Mile run * * * *

North fork – at RM 2.9 + + + + + PWS intake – Newark

- all other segments + + + +

Log Pond run + + + +

Dry run + + + +

Simonds run * * * *

Brushy fork * * * *

Cat run * * * *

Griffin run * * * *

Clear fork + + + +

Cranetown run * * * *

Dog Hollow run + + + *

Lake fork + + + +

Sugar creek * * * *

Sycamore creek + + + +

Tuma run + + + +

Vance creek + + + +

Chambers creek * * * *

Goose run * * * *

Otter fork + + + +

Bowl run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Otter fork RM 11.72 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Webster run + + + *

Ford creek + + + *

Mill run * * * *

Blount run * * * *

Blunt run * * * *

Shawnee run * * * *

Beech run * * * *

Symmes creek * * * *

North branch * * * *

South branch * * * *

Wakatomika creek – headwaters to Front Royal rd. (RM 41.2 ) + + + + +

- Front Royal rd. to the mouth + + + +

Little Wakatomika creek – headwaters to st. rte. 60 (RM 9.5 ) + + + +

- st. rte. 60 to the mouth + + + +

Mill fork + + + +

Moscow brook – headwaters to twp. rte. 70 off co. rd. 297 (RM 2.63 ) + + + +

- twp. rte. 70 off co. rd. 297 to the mouth + + + +

Sand fork – headwaters to unnamed tributary at RM 4.65 + + + +

- unnamed tributary at RM 4.65 to the mouth + + + +

Opossum run * * * *

Dickinson run + + + +

Steffee run * * * *

Black run + + + +

Fivemile run – headwaters to twp. rd. 4 (RM 2.08 ) + + + +

- twp. rd. 4 to the mouth + + + +

Nickel Valley run + + + +

Brushy fork – headwaters to RM 3.7 + + + +

- RM 3.7 to the mouth + + + +

Priest run + + + +

Pleasant Valley run (Priest run RM 1.62 ) + + + +

Winding fork – headwaters to upstream st. rte. 79 (RM 4.1 ) + + + + +

- RM 4.1 to the mouth + + + +

Oxley run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Winding fork RM 4.08 ) – at RM 2.56 o PWS intake – Echoing Hills

Jug run + + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Jug run RM 1.69 ) + + + + +

Anderson run * * * *

Harrod run + + + +

Pumpkin run * * * *

Unnamed tnbutary (Wakatomika creek RM 40.93 ) + + + + +

Wills creek – at RM 66.7 + 0 + + + PWS intake – Cambridge

- all other segments + + + +

Big run * * * *

Brelsford run * * * *

White Eyes creek *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Brush mn *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Bacon run * * * *

Bone run * * * *

Center creek * * * *

Twomile run * * * *

Birds run * * * *

Johnson fork * * * *

Postboy creek * * * *

Indian Camp run * * * *

Dry run * * * *

Wolf run * * * *

Brush run * * * *

Salt fork + + + +

Sugartree fork + + + +

Rocky fork + + + +

Yellow Water creek + + + +

Clear fork + + + +

Turkey run + + + +

Beeham run + + + +

Brushy fork + + + +

Christian creek + + + +

Coon run + + + +

Sarchett run * * * *

Crooked creek + + + *

Jackson run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Peters creek *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Bobs run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

North Crooked creek – at RM 4.46 *L o * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion. PWS intake – New Concord

- all other segments *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Fox creek *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Unnamed tributary (Fox creek RM 5.56 ) o PWS intake – New Concord

Dare run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Leatherwood creek – at RM 22.36 + o + + * PWS intake – Quaker city (formerly)

- all other segments + + + *

Mud run * * * *

Hawkins run * * * *

Infirmary run * * * *

Shannon run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Chapman run + + + +

Trail run * * * *

Seneca fork * * * *

Soggy run * * * *

Opossum run * * * *

Crooked creek * * * *

Mud run * * * *

Depue run * * * *

Beaver creek * * * *

Yoker creek * * * *

Glady run * * * *

South fork * * * *

North fork * * * *

Mud run * * * *

Bishop run * * * *

Paynes fork * * * *

Rock creek * * * *

Buffalo fork + * * *

Crane run + * * *

Yoker creek + * * *

Mannon run + * * *

Flat run + * * *

McKee run + * * *

Bee run + * * *

Sims run + * * *

Cumberland tributary + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Collins fork + * * *

Miller creek + * * *

Mays fork + * * *

Rannells creek + * * *

Buffalo creek *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

North fork *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

South fork *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Little Buffalo creek *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Robinson run * * * *

North creek + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

West creek + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Tuscarawas river – State st. in Barberton (RM 112.9 ) to Chippewa creek (RM 103.2 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- Stillwater creek (RM 47.0 ) to the mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Tuscarawas river mile 3.78 ) + + + +

Morgan run + + + +

White Eyes creek + + + +

East fork + + + +

West fork + + + +

Evans creek + + + +

Davis run * * * *

Hoffman run * * * *

Sweigert run * * * *

Blue Ridge run + + + +

Rodney run * * * *

Buckhorn creek + + + +

Lick run * * * *

West fork * * * *

Indiancamp creek * * * *

Dunlap creek + + + +

Browning run + + + +

Stocker run * * * *

Frys creek + + + +

Johnson run * * * *

Mud run + + + +

Stillwater creek – headwaters to confluence with Brushy fork *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

- Uhrichsville dam (RM 5.2 ) to mouth + + + +

- at RM 7.05 * o * * * PWS intake – Twin city

- all other segments * * * *

Little Stillwater creek – confluence with Plum run to Dennison + + + *

- at RM 14,55 * o * * * PWS intake – Cadiz

- all other segments * * * *

Wolf run * * * *

Irish run * * * *

Plum run * * * *

Willis run * * * *

Beaverdam run * * * *

Edgington run * * * *

Beaverdam run * * * *

Leiper run * * * *

Clear fork * * * *

Standingstone fork * * * *

Laurel creek * * * *

Crooked creek * * * *

Watson creek * * * *

Fallen Timber creek * * * *

Phillips fork * * * *

Weaver run * * * *

Hitchcock run * * * *

Brushy fork * * * *

Hefling run * * * *

Long run * * * *

Colman run * * * *

Huff run * * * *

McFadden run * * * *

Elk run * * * *

South fork * * * *

Atkinson creek * * * *

Craborchard creek * * * *

Skull fork *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Millers fork *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Piedmont reservoir tributaries *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Boggs fork – Holloway to confluence with Stillwater creek *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

- all other segments * * * *

Plum run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Trail run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Rush run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Jockey Hollow run * * * *

Indian run * * * *

Sixmile run * * * *

Lick run * * * *

Robinson run * * * *

Buttemiilk creek * * * *

Coal run * * * *

Spencer creek * * * *

Pike run * * * *

Pone run * * * *

Beaverdam creek + + + +

Oldtown creek + + + +

Stone creek * * * *

Crooked creek + + + +

Unnamed tnbutary (Stone creek RM 6.0 ) + + + +

Sugar creek – Beach city dam to mouth + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Brandywine creek + + + +

Goettge run + + + +

Broad run + + + +

Turkeyfoot run + + + +

Cherry run + + + +

South fork – headwaters to co. rte. 73 (RM 11.2 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (South fork RM 1.0 ) + + + +

Walnut creek – headwaters to Indian Trail creek (RM 0.82 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Indian Trail creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Indian Trail creek RM 6.08 ) -headwaters to RM 0.9 + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Walnut creek RM 3.92 ) + + + +

Goose creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (South fork RM 11.3 ) + + + +

East branch – co. rte. 52 (RM 5.04 ) to the mouth + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (East branch RM 2.07 ) + + + +

Pleasant Valley creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (East branch RM 3.6 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (South fork RM 14.1 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (South fork RM 15.83 ) + + + +

Troyer Valley creek + + + +

Brush run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Brush run RM 1.54 ) + + + + Acid mine drainage

Bean creek * * * *

Elm run + + + +

Middle fork + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Middle fork RM 3.25 ) + + + +

Misers run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Middle fork RM 6.0 ) + + + +

Crabapple creek + + + +

North fork + + + +

Little Sugar creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Little Sugar creek RM 0.5 ) + + + +

Conotton creek + + + *

Huff run * * * *

Beggar run * * * *

Dog run * * * *

Indian fork – at RMs 3.0 and 3.7 * o * * * PWS intakes – Atwood park (RM 3.0 ) and Atwood resort (RM 3.7 )

- all other segments * * * *

Elliot run * * * *

Dellroy creek * * * *

Messer run * * * *

Pleasant Valley run * * * *

Cold Spnng run * * * *

Town creek * * * *

Gant creek * * * *

Thompson run * * * *

Holmes run * * * *

McGuire creek * * * *

North fork * * * *

Bear Hole run * * * *

Scott run * * * *

Dmmg fork * * * *

Kirby run * * * *

Insh creek + + + *

Lick fork * * * *

Snow creek * * * *

Unnamed tributary * * * *

Jefferson creek + + + *

Small Middle run + + + +

Middle run + + + +

Wolf run * * * *

Sandy creek + + + +

Bear run * * * *

Sulphur run * * * *

Limestone creek * * * *

Nimishillen creek – Canton city limits to confluence with Sandy creek + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Sherrick run – headwaters to Osnaburg ditch (RM 5.2 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

- RM 5.2 to mouth + + + +

Osnaburg ditch + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

Hurford run – headwaters (RM 4.95 ) to and including confluence with Domer ditch (RM 1.71 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

- downstream edge of confluence with Domer ditch (RM 1.71 ) to Harrison ave. (RM 0.8 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- Harrison ave. (RM 0.8 ) to mouth (RM 0.0 ) + + + +

Domer ditch + + + +

West branch + + + +

McDowell ditch – headwaters to Zimber ditch (RM 2.3 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- RM 2.3 to mouth + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

Zimber ditch – headwaters to Rettig Ditch (RM 1.2 ) + + + +

- RM 1.2 to North Canton ditch (RM 0.8 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- RM 0.8 to mouth + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

North Canton ditch (Hoover ditch) + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Middle branch + + + +

Swartz ditch + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

Guiley ditch (Hartville ditch) + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

East branch – Louisville (RM 6.0 ) to Middle Branch (RM 0.0 ) + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Keims run + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Unnamed tributary (East branch RM 4.67 ) + + + +

Indian run * * * *

Little Sandy creek * * * *

Black run * * * *

Middle run * * * *

Armstrong run * * * *

Pipe run * * * *

Hugle run * * * *

Still fork + + + +

Muddy fork * * * *

Wholebark run * * * *

Pumpkin run * * * *

Reeds run * * * *

Pipes fork * * * *

Friday creek * * * *

Middle branch * * * *

Conser run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Tuscarawas river mile 77.96 ) + + + +

Sherman creek (Tuscarawas river mile 79.58 ) + + + +

Fohl creek (Tuscarawas river mile 83.74 ) + + + +

Wolf creek * * * *

Camp creek * * * *

Pigeon run + + + +

Sippo creek * * * *

West Scippo creek (Tuscarawas nver mile 91.18 ) + + + +

Newman creek + + + +

Orrville ditch (Newark creek) * * * *

Unnamed tnbutary (Orrville ditch RM 0.52 ) + + + +

Mudbrook creek * * * *

Fox run * * * *

Nimisila creek + + + +

Chippewa creek – Chippewa lake outlet (RM 20.4 ) to mouth + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Silver creek + + + *

Red run + + + *

MarshallviUe tnbutary (Red run RM 0.66 ) + + + *

Mill creek * * * *

River Styx – Medina county rd. 16 (RM 3.9 ) to mouth + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + *

Holmes brook + + + *

Blockers creek + + + +

Little Chippewa creek + + + +

Unnamed trib. (Little Chippewa creek RM 6.3 ) * * * *

Tommy run + + + +

Hubbard creek + + + +

Chippewa ditch * * * *

McCabe creek + + + +

The inlet * * * *

Pancake creek * * * *

Wolf creek – Akron Wadsworth rd. (RM 4.58 ) to mouth + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- at RM 5.12 + o + + + PWS intake – Barberton

- all other segments + + + +

Hudson run – Columbia lake outlet (RM 0.4 ) to the mouth + + + + EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Hudson run RM 3.02 ) + + + +

Van Hyning run + + + *

Pigeon creek – Jacoby rd. (RM 5.2 ) to mouth + + + * EOLP ecoregion – channel modification

- all other segments + + + *

Shocalog run * * * *

Polysar tributary o * * o Small drainageway maintenance

Unnamed tributary (Wolf creek RM 9.96 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Wolf creek RM 10.97 ) + + + +

Metzgers ditch + + + +

Walhonding river + + + +

Mill creek + + + +

Spoon creek + + + +

Turkey run + + + +

Little Mill creek + + + +

Beards run *L * * * Acid mine drainage. Varied criteria year around: exempt from the WWH total dissolved solids criterion.

Crooked run * * * *

Killbuck creek + + + +

Bucklew run + + + +

Hoagland run * * * *

Doughty creek + + + +

Bucks run * * * *

Military run + + + +

Mullet run * * * *

Charm tributary (Doughty creek RM 14.34 ) + + + +

Big run + + + +

Laurel creek * * * *

Lepley run * * * *

Wolf creek – headwaters to twp. rd. 31 (RM 4.1 ) + + + + +

- twp. rd. 31 to the mouth + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Wolf creek RM 6.49 ) + + + + +

Black creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Black creek RM 7.35 ) + + + +

Shrimplin creek + + + + +

Hardy run * * * *

Sand run + + + +

Upper Sand run * * * *

Sapps run + + + +

Uhl run * * * *

Bear run + + + +

Corns run + + + +

Honey run + + + +

Colliers run * * * *

Martins creek + + + +

Paint creek + + + +

Coffee run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (Paint creek RM 3.01 ) + + + + +

Salt creek + + + +

North branch + + + +

Tea run * * * *

Rush run * * * *

Savage run * * * *

Shreve creek + + + +

Millbrook tributary (Killbuck creek Rm 43.60 ) + + + +

Apple creek + + + +

Little Apple creek (Apple creek RM 2.60 ) + + + +

Spring run + + + +

Little Apple creek (Apple creek RM 9.79 ) + + + +

Clear creek + + + + +

Little Killbuck creek + + + +

Rathburn run + + + +

Cedar run + + + +

Shade creek + + + +

Little Killbuck creek * * * *

Repp run + + + +

Camel creek + + + +

Killbuck ditch (Killbuck creek RM 71.7 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Simmons run * * * *

Flint run * * * *

Beaver run + + + +

Darling run * * * *

Mohawk creek * * * *

Dutch run * * * *

Honey run * * * *

Laurel run * * * *

Kokosing river + + + +

Singer run * * * *

Brush run + + + +

Honey run * * * *

Jelloway creek – Ireland creek (RM 9.35 ) to Fredericktown Amity (RM 5.18 ) rd. + + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Little Jelloway creek + + + + +

East branch – headwaters to U.S. rte. 62 (RM 2.4 ) + + + + +

- U.S. rte. 62 to the mouth + + + +

Sapps run * * * *

Dowd creek * * * *

Shadley Valley creek * * * *

Ireland creek * * * *

Barney run * * * *

Schenck creek + + + + +

Coleman branch * * * *

Little Schenck creek – headwaters to Carson rd. (RM 3.5 ) + + + + +

- Carson rd. to the mouth + + + +

Mud run * * * *

Indianfield run + + + + +

Big run + + + +

Elliott run + + + +

Wolf run * * * *

Delano run + + + +

Center run + + + + +

Dry creek – headwaters to unnamed tributary at RM 4.74 + + + + +

- unnamed tributary at RM 4.74 to Dry run (RM 1.05 ) + + + +

- Dry run to the mouth + + + +

Dry run * * * *

Armstrong run + + + + +

North branch – headwaters to unnamed tributary at RM 10.8 + + + + +

- unnamed tributary at RM 10.8 to East branch (RM 6.32 ) + + + +

- East branch to the mouth + + + +

Job run + + + + +

East branch – headwaters Knox lake + + + +

- Knox lake * + + +

- Knox lake to the mouth + + + +

Isaacs run * * * *

Markley run * * * *

Toby run * * * *

Unnamed tributary (North branch Kokosing river RM 9.9 ) + + + +

Lost run * * * *

Granny creek + + + + +

Mile creek * * * *

South branch + + + +

Sylvester run * * * *

Mohican river + + + +

Flat run * * * *

Negro run + + + +

Sigafoos run * * * *

Lake fork + + + +

Plum run + + + +

Unnamed stream (lake Odell outlet) (Lake fork RM 6.56 ) + + + +

Crab run + + + +

Muddy fork – at RM 26.0 + 0 + + + PWS intake – Cinnamon lake utilities

- all other segments + + + +

Kiser ditch (Muddy fork RM 0.92 ) + + + + EOLP ecoregon – channel modification

Fox run * * * *

Redhaw creek + + + + +

Wolf run * * * *

Jerome fork + + + +

Glenn run * * * *

Oldtown run + + + +

Quaker Spnngs run + + + +

Scott run * * * *

Newell run + + + +

Kakotawa creek + + + +

Lang creek + + + +

Jamison creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (RM 0.2 ) + + + +

Town run + + + +

Orange creek + + + +

Leidigh Mill creek + + + +

Ball Alley run * * * *

Black fork – at RMs 50.82, 53.88 and 54 + + + + + PWS intakes – Shelby

- all other segments + + + +

Big run + + + +

Honey creek – headwaters to unnamed tributary at RM 4.19 + + + +

- RM 4.19 to the mouth + + + +

Rocky fork + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Rocky fork RM 10.70 ) + + + +

Fleming Falls creek + * * +

Unnamed tributary (Fleming Falls creek RM 2.7 ) + * * +

Touby run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Black fork RM 25.16 ) + + + +

Seymour run * * * *

Whetstone creek + + + +

Brubaker creek + + + +

Friends creek * * * *

Shipp creek + + + +

Leatherwood creek * * * *

Bear run + + + +

Marsh run + + + +

Tuby run + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Black fork RM 54.46 ) + + + +

Clear fork – Clear fork reservoir (RM 30.5 ) to the mouth * + + + +

- at RM 30.6 * o * * * PWS intake – Mansfield

- all other segments * * * *

Pine run * + + + +

Horsetail run * * * *

Switzer creek + + + +

Opossum run + + + +

Slater run + + + +

Babble brook * * * *

Smoky run * * * *

Pleasant Valley run * * * *

Honey creek + + + +

Robinson run * * * *

Cedar fork + + + +

Steel run * * * *

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 9/20/1988, 5/1/1990, 7/5/1991, 7/1/1992, 4/26/1997, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002, 4/23/2008

(A) The water bodies listed in table 25-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Mahoning river drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 25-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Mahoning river drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Mahoning river – at RMs 56.47, 69.18, 83.55, and 91.50 + o + + + PWS intakes – Newton Falls (RM 56.47 ), Mahoning valley sanitary district (emergency intake, RM 69.18 ), Alliance (emergency intake, RM 83.55 ) and Sebring (RM 91.50 )

- headwaters to King rd. (RM 102.41 ) + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Hickory creek (formerly Hickory run) * * * *

Coffee run * * * *

Grays run * * * *

Hines run + + + +

Godward run * * * *

Yellow creek – at RMs 2.0 and 8.40 + o + + + PWS intakes – Campbell (RM 2.0 ) and Struthers (RM 8.40 )

- all other segments + + + +

Burgess run – at RM 2.0 * o * * * PWS intake – Struthers

- all other segments * * * *

Pine Hollow creek * * * *

Dry run – at RM 2.86 + o + + + PWS intake – Campbell

- all other segments + + + +

Crab creek * * * *

Kimmel brook * * * *

Mill creek + + + +

Bears Den run + + + +

Ax Factory run + + + +

Andersons run + + + +

Cranberry run * * * *

Indian run + + + +

Saw Mill run * * * *

Turkey creek * * * *

Fourmile run * * * *

Little Squaw creek (Mahoning river RM 23.55 ) + + + +

Squaw creek * * * *

Meander creek – at RM 2.96 + o + + + PWS intake – Mahoning valley sanitary district

- all other segments + + + +

Morrison run * * * *

Sawmill creek * * * *

West branch * * * *

Mosquito creek – at RM 12.49 + o + + + PWS intake – Warren

- all other segments + + + +

Spring run * * * *

Big run * * * *

Confusion run * * * *

Walnut creek * * * *

Mud creek * * * *

Smith run * * * *

Mud creek * * * *

Red run o * o Small drainageway maintenance

Duck creek * * * *

Little Duck creek * * * *

East branch * * * *

Chocolate run + + + +

Eagle creek + + + +

Tinker creek + + + +

Nelson ditch + + + +

South fork + + + +

Unnamed tributary (South fork RM 6.34 ) + + + +

Sand creek * + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Sand creek RM 2.22 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Sand creek RM 3.25 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Sand creek RM 4.84 ) + + + +

Mahoning creek + + + +

Camp creek + + + +

Silver creek + + + +

Hiram tributary + + + +

Black creek * * * * *

West branch – at RM 13.25 + o + + + PWS intake – West branch tower state park

- all other segments + + + +

Unnamed tributary (West branch RM 0.01 ) – RM 3.8 to the mouth + + + +

Unnamed tributary (West branch RM 8.28 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (West branch RM 9.63 )

Unnamed tributary (unnamed tributary RM 0.74 ) + + + +

Silver creek + + + +

Hinkley creek + + + +

Bixon creek * * * *

Barrel run + + + +

Harmon brook + + + +

Kale creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Kale creek RM 5.29 ) + + + +

Charley Run creek * * * *

Mill creek + + + +

Turkey Broth creek + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Mill creek RM 3.67 ) + + + +

Garfield ditch (Mill creek RM 8.09 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Mahoning river RM 91.21 ) + + + +

Naylor ditch (Mahoning river RM 93.58 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Mahoning river RM 97.11 ) + + + +

Unnamed tributary (Mahoning river RM 98.71 ) + + + +

Island creek + + + +

Willow creek + + + +

Deer creek – at RM 0.54 + o + + + PWS intake – Alliance

- all other segments + + + +

Beech creek + + + +

Little Beech creek + + + +

Fish creek + + + +

Beaver run + + + +

Shenango nver – at RM 68.40 + 0 + + + PWS intake – Pymatuning state park (formerly)

- all other segments + + + +

Deer creek * * * *

Little Yankee creek + + + +

Little Deer creek + + + +

Mud run – headwater to east Liberty st. (RM 1.12 ) + + + +

- east Liberty st. to the mouth + + + +

Yankee creek + + + +

South branch + + + +

Pymatuning creek + + + +

Mill creek * * * *

Stratton creek + + + +

Maple creek * * * *

Sugar creek + + + +

Berry creek * * * *

Clear creek * * * *

McMichael creek + + + +

Black creek + + + +

Wade creek (Shenango river RM 71.46 ) + + + +

Gravel run + + + +

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 5/6/1993, 7/21/2002, 4/23/2008, 10/9/2009

(A) The water bodies listed in table 26-2 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Cuyahoga river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout table 26-2 of this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the stream segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

(E) The following uses, criteria and conditions shall apply to the Cuyahoga river ship channel.

(1) The Cuyahoga river ship channel is a unique segment of the Cuyahoga river. It is a federally maintained navigation channel which originates at the Newburgh and South Shore railroad bridge (river mile 5.6 ) and empties into the Cleveland harbor portion of Lake Erie. The maintenance of the channel is important to commerce and the economic well being of the Cleveland area. The channel averages two hundred seventy feet in width, is maintained at a uniform depth of twenty-three feet and is vertically sheet piled along the vast majority of its length. The physical configuration of the channel results in a ten-day time of travel for a mass of water entering the ship channel at critical low flow conditions.

Modeling projections of water quality in the channel have shown that levels of oxygen demanding materials found in natural waters are sufficient to depress dissolved oxygen below the warmwater habitat criteria. The modeling simulations also indicate that the existing loads of oxygen demanding materials could maintain the warmwater habitat dissolved oxygen criteria if the river depth was decreased to twelve feet. However, this would preclude the use of the channel for commercial navigation.

The physical habitat of the channel and the prevailing background dissolved oxygen regime are insufficient to support any resemblance of the warmwater habitat aquatic life use designation. A use attainability analysis has been conducted and indicates the extant fauna is substantially degraded and the potential for recovery of the fauna to the level characteristic of other Lake Erie river mouths is precluded by irretrievable human induced conditions. However, the ship channel is used by fish as a migratory route in the spring months. This seasonal and stream flow related use shall be recognized and protected through this rule.

Full body contact recreational uses such as rowing, sculling and jet skiing do occur in the ship channel. The ship channel is also used as an industrial water supply but has no potential to support agricultural or public water supply uses.

(2) Use designations for the Cuyahoga river ship channel are as follows:

(a) Aquatic life;

(i) During the months of June through January, and during the remaining months of the year whenever the river flow is less than seven hundred and three cubic feet per second at the United States geological survey gage at Independence ( 04208000), the aquatic life use shall be limited resource water – navigation maintenance as defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code.

(ii) During the months of February through May whenever the river flow equals or exceeds seven hundred and three cubic feet per second at the United States geological survey gage at Independence ( 04208000), the aquatic life use shall be fish passage. The fish passage use is defined as those rivers or other water bodies that have been the subject of a use attainability analysis and have been found to be incapable of supporting and maintaining a balanced, integrated, adaptive community of warmwater organisms but are capable of supporting the passage of warmwater fish during migratory periods.

(b) Industrial water supply as defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code; and

(c) Primary contact recreation as defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code.

(3) The criteria and other provisions to protect the designated uses of the ship channel shall be those set forth in rules 3745-1-01 to 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code with the following exceptions:

(a) The limited resource water dissolved oxygen criterion shall be 1.5 mg/1 minimum. No dissolved oxygen average criteria apply.

(b) The fish passage criteria shall be the same as the warmwater habitat criteria in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code, with the exception that the biological criteria do not apply.

(4) Pursuant to United States environmental protection agency regulations (“40 CFR Part 130.7 “), the director shall utilize the phased total maximum daily load approach as a means of progressing toward attainment of the dissolved oxygen criteria established in paragraph (E)(3) of this rule. The phased total maximum daily load approach is generally recognized by the United States environmental protection agency as an appropriate methodology for achieving a total load reduction compatible with achieving water quality criteria (“Guidance for Water Quality-based Decisions and the TMDL Process, EPA 440/4-91-001”). In this instance the concept must consider the expectation of dissolved oxygen enhancement through means other than additional point and nonpoint source load reductions. Based on the background presented in paragraph (E)(1) of this rule and extensive data collection and analysis, the following total maximum daily load components shall be established for oxygen demanding substances.

(a) The wasteloads for point sources shall be those presented in table 26-1 of this rule. Loads for permit 3PA00002 may be established after the steps in paragraphs (E)(4)(b), (E)(4)(c) and (E)(4)(d) of this rule are completed.

(b) The total maximum daily load shall include a component for expected dissolved oxygen enhancement through such means as, but not limited to, off channel re-aeration, sediment remediation and flow augmentation.

(c) An evaluation of the site-specific technical and cost feasibility aspects of implementing off channel re-aeration shall be the first scheduled phase of the Cuyahoga river ship channel total maximum daily load. This evaluation shall be completed no later than two years after the adoption of this rule.

(d) Implementation of off channel re-aeration or other dissolved oxygen enhancement measures, and any wasteload allocation for permit 3PA00002 for oxygen demanding substances, shall occur only after these components of the total maximum daily load are incorporated into this rule.

(5) These standards reflect the desire for restoring and maintaining multiple uses of the ship channel expressed by the Cuyahoga river remedial action plan coordinating committee. All parties, private and public, who contribute to the dissolved oxygen problem may share a responsibility in the study and attainment of these standards. The dissolved oxygen criteria established in paragraph (E)(3) of this rule are intended to be the minimum planning targets for the remedial action planning process to use in evaluating beneficial use restoration. The remedial action planning process should consider innovative means of achieving this target such as off channel re-aeration, sediment remediation and flow augmentation, either alone or in combination with additional point and nonpoint source controls. As with all standards, it will be appropriate to periodically re-assess the dissolved oxygen criteria based upon information collected as part of the feasibility study conducted pursuant to paragraph (E)(4)(c) of this rule or any other studies.

(6) These standards shall be reviewed, and revised if appropriate, every three years. Pursuant to Section 118 of the act (the “Great Lakes Critical Programs Act of 1990”) the director shall continue to develop the Cuyahoga river remedial action plan – stage two report in conjunction with the Cuyahoga river remedial action plan coordinating committee. Studies undertaken as part of the remedial action plan and the feasibility study conducted pursuant to paragraph (E)(4)(c) of this rule shall be important components of the standards review process.

Table 26-1. Cuyahoga river ship channel point source loads of oxygen demanding substances.

Table 26-2. Use designations for water bodies in the Cuyahoga river drainage basin.

See Tables at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-26_PH_FF_A_RU_20061220_0834.pdf

Appendix A

Figure 1. Cuyahoga river drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-26_PH_FF_A_APP1_20061220_0834.pdf

Effective: 04/01/2007

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/25/2006 and 04/01/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 7/28/1986, 4/21/1992, 9/30/1993, 7/31/1999, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 27-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Black river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 27-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Black river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-27_PH_FF_A_RU_20080123_0805.pdf

Appendix

Figure 1. Black river drainage basin.

See Appendix at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-27_PH_FF_A_APP1_20080123_0805.pdf

Effective: 04/23/2008

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 11/06/2007 and 04/23/2013

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 3/29/2001, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 28-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Vermilion river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 28-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Vermilion river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-28_PH_FF_A_RU_20061220_0834.pdf

Appendix A

Figure 1. Vermilion river drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-28_PH_FF_A_APP1_20061220_0834.pdf

Effective: 04/01/2007

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 04/25/2006 and 04/01/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 3/29/2001

(A) The water bodies listed in table 29-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Wabash river drainage basin.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 29-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Wabash river drainage basin.

See Table at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-29_PH_FYR_C_RU_20070723_1332.pdf

Appendix A

Figure 1. Wabash river drainage basin.

See Figure at http://www.registerofohio.state.oh.us/pdfs/3745/0/1/3745-1-29_PH_FYR_C_APP1_20070723_1332.pdf

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 07/23/2007 and 07/23/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 8/19/1985, 4/26/1997, 7/21/2002

(A) The water bodies listed in table 30-1 of this rule are ordered from downstream to upstream. Tributaries of a water body are indented. The aquatic life habitat, water supply and recreation use designations are defined in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code. The state resource water use designation is defined in rule 3745-1-05 of the Administrative Code. The most stringent criteria associated with any one of the use designations assigned to a water body will apply to that water body.

(B) Figure 1 of the appendix to this rule is a generalized map of the Mill creek drainage basin. A generalized map of Ohio outlining the twenty-three major drainage basins and listing associated rule numbers in Chapter 3745-1 of the Administrative Code is in figure 1 of the appendix to rule 3745-1-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) RM, as used in this rule, stands for river mile and refers to the method used by the Ohio environmental protection agency to identify locations along a water body. Mileage is defined as the lineal distance from the downstream terminus (i.e., mouth) and moving in an upstream direction.

(D) The following symbols are used throughout this rule:

Designated use based on the 1978 water quality standards;

+ Designated use based on the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency;

o Designated use based on justification other than the results of a biological field assessment performed by the Ohio environmental protection agency; and

L An L in the warmwater habitat column signifies that the water body segment is designated limited warmwater habitat.

Table 30-1. Use designations for water bodies in the Mill creek drainage basin.

Water Body Segment Use Designations Comments

Aquatic Life Habitat  Water Supply  Recreation

S W E M S C L P A I B P S

R W W W S W R W W W W C C

W H H H H H W S S S R R

Muddy creek * * * *

Rapid run (Ohio river RM 500.74 ) + + + + Irretrievable habitat modification

Wulff run (Rapid run RM 1.65 ) + + + + Irretrievable habitat modification

Mill creek – headwaters to I-275 (RM 17.9 ) + + + +

- I-275 to Center Hill rd. (RM 7.9 ) + + + +

- Center Hill rd. (RM 7.9 ) to the mouth + + + + IP ecoregion – channel modification

West Fork creek (Mill creek RM 3.45 ) – headwaters to Montana ave. (RM 2.1 ) + + + +

- Montana ave. to the mouth + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Ross run (Mill creek RM 6.45 ) + + + + Small drainageway maintenance

Winton Ridge tributary (Mill creek RM 6.85 ) + + + +

Bloody run (Mill creek RM 7.63 ) + + + + IP ecoregion – channel modification

West fork – headwaters to Winton lake + + + +

- all other segments + + + +

Cooper creek (Mill creek RM 14.05 ) a.k.a. Rossmoyne creek + + + +

Sharon creek (Mill creek RM 15.63 ) + + + +

Sharon lake + + + +

Town run (Mill creek RM 16.93 ) + + + +

East fork (Mill creek RM 17.95 ) – headwaters to Butler county upper Mill creek WWTP (RM 1.07 ) + + + +

- upper Mill creek WWTP to the mouth + + + +

Beaver run (Mill creek RM 18.21 ) + + + +

SRW = state resource water; WWH = warmwater habitat; EWH = exceptional warmwater habitat; MWH = modified warmwater habitat; SSH = seasonal salmonid habitat; CWH = coldwater habitat; LRW = limited resource water; PWS = public water supply; AWS = agricultural water supply; IWS = industrial water supply; BW = bathing water; PCR = primary contact recreation; SCR = secondary contact recreation.

Effective: 06/16/2011

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 01/06/2011 and 06/16/2016

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/85, 3/29/01

(A) Lake erie is designated exceptional warmwater habitat, superior high quality water, public water supply agricultural water supply, industrial water supply and bathing waters, and will meet the criteria set forth in, or derived in accordance with, rules 3745-1-01 to 3745-1-07 of the administrative code, rule 3745-133 of the Administrative Code, and rules 3745-1-36 to 3745-1-39 of the Administrative Code. However, criteria set forth in this rule supersede the above rules where applicable. These criteria apply outside the mixing zone.

Temperature.

(1) There shall be no water temperature changes as a result of human activity that cause mortality, long-term avoidance or exclusion from habitat, or adversely affect the reproductive success of representative aquatic species.

(2) At no time shall water temperature exceed the average or daily maximum temperatures indicated in paragraphs (A) and (B) of table 31-1 of this rule.

(3) The temperature of the hypolimnetic waters of lake erie shall not exceed at any time the daily maximum temperatures indicated in paragraph (C) of table 31-1 of this rule.

Table 31-1. Temperature criteria.

(A) Lake Erie western basin – includes the area of lake Erie west of a line drawn from Pelee point, Canada to Scott point on Catawba island. Shown as degrees fahrenheit and (CELSIUS).

Jan. Feb. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. May May June

1-31 1-29 1-15 16-31 1-15 16-30 1-15 16-31 1-15

Average: – - – - – 53 59 65 75

( 11.7 ) ( 15.0 ) ( 18.3 ) ( 23.9 )

Daily

Maximum: 35 38 39 45 51 56 64 72 78

( 1.7 ) ( 3.3 ) ( 3.9 ) ( 7.2 ) ( 10.6 ) ( 13.3 ) ( 17.8 ) ( 22.2 ) ( 25.6 )

June July Aug. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Nov. Dec.

16-30 1-31 1-31 1-15 16-30 1-15 16-31 1-30 1-31

Average: 80 83 83 78 76 66 60 53 -

( 26.7 ) ( 28.3 ) ( 28.3 ) ( 25.6 ) ( 24.4 ) ( 18.9 ) ( 15.6 ) ( 11.7 )

Daily

Maximum 83 85 85 83 81 71 65 58 46

( 28.3 ) ( 29.4 ) ( 29.4 ) ( 28.3 ) ( 27.2 ) ( 21.7 ) ( 18.3 ) ( 14.4 ) ( 7.8 )

(B) Lake Erie central basin – includes the area of lake Erie east of a line drawn from Pelee point, Canada to Scott point on Catawba island to the Pennsylvania-Ohio state line. Shown as degrees fahrenheit and (CELSIUS).

Jan. Feb. Mar. Mar. Apr. Apr. May May June

1-31 1-29 1-15 16-31 1-15 16-30 1-15 16-31 1-15

Average: – - – - 43 53 59 63 75

( 6.1 ) ( 11.7 ) ( 15.0 ) ( 17.2 ) ( 23.9 )

Daily

Maximum: 35 38 39 45 48 56 63 72 78

( 1.7 ) ( 3.3 ) ( 3.9 ) ( 7.2 ) ( 8.9 ) ( 13.3 ) ( 17.2 ) ( 22.2 ) ( 25.6 )

June July Aug. Sept. Sept. Oct. Oct. Nov. Dec.

16-30 1-31 1-31 1-15 16-30 1-15 16-31 1-30 1-31

Average: 80 83 83 76 71 66 58 48

( 26.7 ) ( 29.4 ) ( 29.4 ) ( 27.2 ) ( 24.4 ) ( 21.7 ) ( 17.2 ) ( 11.7 ) ( 7.8 )

Daily

Maximum: 83 85 85 81 76 71 63 53 46

( 28.3 ) ( 29.4 ) ( 29.4 ) ( 27.2 ) ( 24.4 ) ( 21.7 ) ( 17.2 ) ( 11.7 ) ( 7.8 )

(C) Seasonal daily maximum temperature limitations for the hypolimnetic regions of lake Erie. Shown as degrees fahrenheit and (CELSIUS).

Month Daily Maximum

January 44 ( 6.7 )

February 44 ( 6.7 )

March 44 ( 6.7 )

April 47 ( 8.3 )

May 51 ( 10.6 )

June 54 ( 12.2 )

July 59 ( 15.0 )

August 59 ( 15.0 )

September 55 ( 12.8 )

October 46 ( 7.8 )

November 41 ( 5.0 )

December 38 ( 3.3 )

R.C. 119.032 review dates: 03/29/2007 and 03/29/2012

Promulgated Under: 119.03

Statutory Authority: 6111.041, 6111.12

Rule Amplifies: 6111.041, 6111.12

Prior Effective Dates: 4/4/1985, 5/1/1990, 10/1/1996, 10/31/1997

(A) The Ohio river is designated warmwater habitat, public water supply, agricultural water supply, industrial water supply and bathing waters, and will meet the most stringent criteria set forth in, or derived in accordance with, this rule, rules 3745-1-01 to 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code, and rules 3745-1-34 to 3745-1-36 of the Administrative Code.

Table 32-1. Water quality criteria for the Ohio river.

Chemical Form 1 Units2 IMZM3 OMZM3 OMZA3

Bacteria (fecal coliform) T – b b

Cyanide free µg/l 44 22 5.2

Dissolved oxygen 4 T mg/l – 4.0 c 5.0

Radionuclides T – d d

Temperature – & 176;F – Table 32-3 Table 32-3

1 T = total.

2 mg/l = milligrams per liter (parts per million); µg/l = micrograms per liter (parts per billion); & 176;F = degrees fahrenheit.

3 IMZM = inside mixing zone maximum; OMZM = outside mixing zone maximum; OMZA = outside mixing zone average.

4 For dissolved oxygen, OMZM means outside mixing zone minimum at any time and OMZA means outside mixing zone minimum daily average.

a See rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code.

b For the months of May to October, the maximum allowable level of fecal coliform bacteria shall not exceed two hundred per one hundred ml as a monthly geometric mean based on not less than five samples per month; nor exceed four hundred per one hundred ml in more than ten per cent of all samples taken during the month. For the months of May to October, measurements of Escherichia coli bacteria may be substituted for fecal coliform. Content shall not exceed one hundred thirty per one hundred ml as a monthly geometric mean, based on not less than five samples per month, nor exceed two hundred forty per one hundred ml in any sample. For the months of November to April, the maximum allowable level of fecal coliform bacteria shall not exceed two thousand per one hundred ml as a geometric mean based on not less than five samples per month.

c A minimum of 5.0 mg/l at any time shall be maintained during the April fifteen to June fifteen spawning season.

d Gross total alpha particle activity (including radium-226, but excluding radon and uranium) shall not exceed fifteen picocuries per liter (pci/l) and combined radium-226 and radium-228 shall not exceed four pci/l The concentration of total gross beta particle activity shall not exceed fifty pci/l. The concentration of total strontium-90 shall not exceed eight pci/l.

Table 32-2. Ohio river water quality criteria for the protection of human health.

OMZA 3

Chemical Form 1 Units2 Intakes Elsewhere

Acenaphthene T µg/l 1,200 1,200

Acrolein T µg/l 320 320

Acrylonitrile 5 T µg/l 0.590.59

Alachlor T µg/l 2.0 a -

Aldicarb 6 T µg/l 7.0 a -

Aldicarb sulfone 6 T µg/l 7.0 a -

Aldicarb sulfoxide 6 T µg/l 7.0 a -

Aldrin 5 T µg/l 0.00130.0013

Anthracene T µg/l 9,600 9,600

Antimony TR µg/l 6.0 a 14

Arsenic TR µg/l 10 a 50

Asbestos T Mf/l 7.0 a -

Atrazine T µg/l 3.0 a -

Barium TR µg/l 2,000 a -

Benzene 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 12

Benzidine 5 T µg/l 0.00120.0012

Benzo (a) anthracene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Benzo (a) pyrene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Benzo (b) fluoranthene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Benzo (k) fluoranthene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Beryllium TR µg/l 4.0 a 16

Bromate T µg/l 10 a -

Bromoform 5 T µg/l 43 43

Butylbenzyl phthalate T µg/l 3,000 3,000

Cadmium TR µg/l 5.0 a -

Carbofuran T µg/l 40 a -

Carbon tetrachloride 5 T µg/l 2.52.5

Chloramine T µg/l 4,000 a -

Chlordane 5 T µg/l 0.0210.021

Chlorides T mg/l 250 a 250

Chlorine T µg/l 4,000 a -

Chlorine dioxide T µg/l 800 a -

Chlorite T µg/l 1,000 a -

Chloroacetic acid 7 T µg/l 60a -

Chlorobenzene T µg/l 100 a 680

Chlorodibromomethane 5 T µg/l 4.14.1

Bis (2-Chloroethyl) ether 5 T µg/l 0.310.31

Chloroform 5 T µg/l 57 57

bis (2-Chloroisopropyl) ether T µg/l 1,400 1,400

bis (2-Chloromethyl) ether 5 T µg/l 0.00130.0013

2-Chloronaphthalene T µg/l 1,700 1,700

2-Chlorophenol T µg/l 120 120

Chromium TR µg/l 100 a -

Chrysene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Copper TR µg/l – -

Cyanide free µg/l 200 a 700

2,4-D (2,4-Dichlorophenoxy-

acetic acid) T µg/l 70 a 100

Dalapon T µg/l 200 a -

4,4’-DDD 5 T µg/l 0.00830.0083

4,4’-DDE 5 T µg/l 0.00590.0059

4,4’-DDT 5 T µg/l 0.00590.0059

Dibenzo (a,h) anthracene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Dibromochloropropane T µg/l 0.2 a -

Di-n-butyl phthalate T µg/l 2,700 2,700

Dichloroacetic acid 7 T µg/l 60a -

1,2-Dichlorobenzene T µg/l 600 a 2,700

1,3-Dichlorobenzene T µg/l 400 400

1,4-Dichlorobenzene T µg/l 75 a 400

3,3’-Dichlorobenzidine 5 T µg/l 0.400.40

Dichlorobromomethane 5 T µg/l 5.65.6

1,2-Dichloroethane 5 T µg/l 3.83.8

1,1-Dichloroethylene 5 T µg/l 0.570.57

cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene T µg/l 70 a -

trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene T µg/l 100 a 700

2,4-Dichlorophenol T µg/l 93 93

1,2-Dichloropropane 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 5.2

1,3-Dichloropropene T µg/l 10 10

Dieldrin 5 T µg/l 0.00140.0014

Di (2-ethylhexyl) adipate T µg/l 400 a -

Diethyl phthalate T µg/l 23,000 23,000

2,4-Dimethylphenol T µg/l 540 540

Dimethyl phthalate T µg/l 310,000 310,000

4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol

(4,6-Dinitro-2-methylphenol) T µg/l 13 13

Dinitrophenols 4 T µg/l 70 70

2,4-Dinitrotoluene 5 T µg/l 1.11.1

Dinoseb T µg/l 7.0 a -

1,2-Diphenylhydrazine 5 T µg/l 0.400.40

Diquat T µg/l 20 a -

Dissolved solids T mg/l 750/500 a,b -

alpha-Endosulfan 8 T µg/l 110 110

beta-Endosulfan 8 T µg/l 110 110

Endosulfan sulfate 8 T µg/l 110 110

Endothall T µg/l 100 a -

Endrin 9 T µg/l 0.760.76

Endrin aldehyde 9 T µg/l 0.760.76

Ethylbenzene T µg/l 700 a 3,100

Ethylene dibromide (EDB) T µg/l 0.050 a -

bis (2-Ethylhexyl) phthalate 5 T µg/l 6.0 a 18

Fluoranthene T µg/l 300 300

Fluorene T µg/l 1,300 1,300

Fluoride T µg/l 1,000 1,000

Glyphosate T µg/l 700 a -

Heptachlor 5 T µg/l 0.00210.0021

Heptachlor epoxide 5 T µg/l 0.00100.0010

Hexachlorobenzene 5 T µg/l 0.00750.0075

Hexachlorobutadiene 5 T µg/l 4.44.4

alpha-Hexachlorocyclohexane 5 T µg/l 0.0390.039

beta-Hexachlorocyclohexane 5 T µg/l 0.140.14

gamma-Hexachlorocyclohexane

(Lindane) 5 T µg/l 0.190.19

Hexachlorocyclohexane-

technical grade 5 T µg/l 0.120.12

Hexachlorocyclopentadiene T µg/l 50 a 240

Hexachloroethane 5 T µg/l 19 19

Indeno (1,2,3-c,d) pyrene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.044

Iron S µg/l 300 a -

Isophorone 5 T µg/l 360 360

Mercury TR µg/l 0.0120.012

Methoxychlor T µg/l 40 a 100

Methyl bromide T µg/l 48 48

Methylene chloride 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 47

Nickel TR µg/l 610 610

Nitrate-N + Nitrite-N T µg/l 10,000 a 10,000

Nitrite-N T µg/l 1,000 a 1,000

Nitrobenzene T µg/l 17 17

Nitrosoamines 5 T µg/l 0.00800.0080

N-Nitrosodibutylamine 5 T µg/l 0.0640.064

N-Nitrosodiethylamine 5 T µg/l 0.00800.0080

N-Nitrosodimethylamine 5 T µg/l 0.00690.0069

N-Nitrosodi-n-propylamine 5 T µg/l 0.0500.050

N-Nitrosodiphenylamine 5 T µg/l 50 50

N-Nitrosodipyrrolidine 5 T µg/l 0.160.16

Oxamyl (Vydate) T µg/l 200 a -

Pentachlorobenzene T µg/l 3.53.5

Pentachlorophenol 5 T mg/l 1.0 a 82

Phenol T µg/l 21,000 21,000

Phenolics T µg/l 5.05.0

Picloram T µg/l 500 a -

Polychlorinated biphenyls 5 T µg/l 0.00170.0017

Pyrene T µg/l 960 960

Selenium TR µg/l 50 a 170

Silver T µg/l 50 50

Silvex (2,4,5-TP, 2-[2,4,5-

Trichlorophenoxyl propionic

acid T µg/l 10 10

Simazine T µg/l 4.0 a -

Styrene T µg/l 100 a -

Sulfates T mg/l 250 a 250

1,2,4,5-Tetrachlorobenzene T µg/l 2.32.3

2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-

p-dioxin 5 T pg/l 0.130.13

1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane 5 T µg/l 1.71.7

Tetrachloroethylene 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 8.0

Thallium TR µg/l 1.71.7

Toluene T µg/l 1,000 a 6,800

Toxaphene 5 T µg/l 0.00730.0073

Trichloroacetic acid 7 T µg/l 60a -

1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene T µg/l 70 a 260

1,1,1-Trichloroethane T µg/l 200 a -

1,1,2-Trichloroethane 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 6.0

Trichloroethylene 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 27

2,4,5-Trichlorophenol T µg/l 2,600 2,600

2,4,6-Trichlorophenol 5 T µg/l 21 21

Vinyl chloride 5 T µg/l 2.0 a 20

Xylenes T µg/l 10,000 a -

Zinc T µg/l 9,100 9,100

1 S = soluble; T = total; TR = total recoverable.

2 mg/l = milligrams per liter (parts per million); µg/l = micrograms per liter (parts per billion); ng/l = nanograms per liter (parts per trillion); pg/l = picograms per liter (parts per quadrillion); Mf/l = million fibers per liter.

3 OMZA = outside mixing zone average. Criteria in the “Intakes” column apply within five hundred yards of drinking water intakes. Criteria in the “Elsewhere” column apply at all other locations.

4 The criteria for this chemical apply to the sum of all dinitrophenols.

5 Criteria for this chemical are based on a carcinogenic endpoint.

6 The criterion for this chemical applies to the sum of aldicarb, aldicarb sulfone and aldicarb sulfoxide.

7 The criterion for this chemical applies to the sum of chloroacetic acid, dichloroacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid.

8 The criteria for this chemical apply to the sum of alpha-endosulfan, beta-endosulfan and endosulfan sulfate.

9 The criteria for this chemical apply to the sum of endrin and endrin aldehyde.

a This criterion is the maximum contaminant level (MCL) developed under the “Safe Drinking Water Act”.

b Equivalent 25& 176;C specific conductance values are 1200 micromhos/cm as a maximum and 800 micromhos/cm as a thirty-day average.

Table 32-3. Ohio river temperature criteria.

Period Instantaneous

Month/date Average (& 176;F) Maximum (& 176;F)

January 1-31 45 50

February 1-29 45 50

March 1-15 51 56

March 16-31 54 59

April 1-15 58 64

April 16-30 64 69

May 1-15 68 73

May 16-31 75 80

June 1-15 80 85

June 16-30 83 87

July 1-31 84 89

August 1-31 84 89

September 1-15 84 87

September 16-30 82 86

October 1-15 77 82

October 16-31 72 77

November 1-30 67 72

December 1-31 52 57

Eff 4-4-85; 8-19-85; 5-1-90; 10-31-97; 12-30-02

Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03

Rule authorized by: RC 6111.041

Rule amplifies: RC 6111.041

R.C. Section 119.032 rule review date: 3/25/2002

(A) This rule applies in addition to the requirements contained in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code to water bodies within the lake Erie drainage basin. Except as provided in paragraphs (D) and (E) of this rule, the methodologies contained in rules 3745-1-36, 3745-1-37, 3745-1-38 and 3745-1-39 of the Administrative Code shall be used when adopting or revising numeric aquatic life, human health and wildlife water quality criteria and when implementing the narrative water quality criteria contained in rule 3745-1-04 of the Administrative Code for water bodies located in the lake Erie drainage basin.

(B) The chemical-specific criteria listed in this rule apply as “Outside Mixing Zone Averages”. For the purpose of setting water quality based effluent limits, these criteria shall be met after the effluent and the receiving water are reasonably well mixed as provided in rules 3745-2-05 and 3745-2-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) The water quality criteria and values adopted in, or developed pursuant to, this rule shall apply as follows:

(1) The water quality criteria and values for protection of human health, or site-specific modifications thereof, are “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria and shall apply as follows:

(i) The “Drinking” water quality criteria and values for the protection of human health shall apply to all water bodies located in the lake Erie drainage basin within five hundred yards of drinking water intakes.

(ii) The “Nondrinking” water quality criteria and values for the protection of human health shall apply to all water bodies located in the lake Erie drainage basin other than those specified in paragraph (C)(3)(i) of this rule.

(2) Criteria for protection of wildlife, or site-specific modifications thereof, are “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria and shall apply to all water bodies located in the lake Erie drainage basin.

(D) For pollutants listed in table 33-1 of this rule, any methodologies and procedures acceptable under 40 C.F.R. 131 may be used when developing water quality criteria or implementing narrative criteria.

(E) For any pollutant other than those in table 33-1 of this rule for which it is demonstrated that a methodology or procedure cited in this rule is not scientifically defensible, the director may apply an alternative methodology or procedure acceptable under 40 C.F.R. 131 when developing water quality criteria.

Table 33-1. Pollutants subject to any methodologies and procedures acceptable under 40 C.F.R. 131.

Alkalinity

Ammonia

Bacteria

Biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)

Chlorine

Color

Dissolved oxygen

Dissolved solids

pH

Phosphorus

Salinity

Temperature

Total and suspended solids

Turbidity

Table 33-2. Lake Erie drainage basin water quality criteria for the protection of human health and wildlife.

Human Health OMZA 3 Wildlife

Chemical Form 1 Units2 Drinking Nondrinking OMZA3

Arsenic TR µg/1 10 – -

Benzene 4 T µg/1 12 310 -

Chlordane 4 T ng/1 0.250.25 -

Chlorides T mg/1 250 – -

Chlorobenzene T µg/1 470 3200 -

Cyanides T mg/1 0.60 48 -

DDT 4 T ng/1 0.150.150.011 a

Dieldrin 4 T ng/1 0.00650.0065 -

2, 4-Dimethylphenol T µg/1 450 8700 -

2, 4-Dinitrophenol T µg/1 55 2800 -

Dissolved solids T mg/1 750/500 b – -

Hexachlorobenzene 4 T ng/1 0.450.45 -

Hexachloroethane 4 T µg/1 5.36.7 -

Iron S µg/1 300 – -

Lindane T µg/1 0.470.50 -

Mercury TR µg/1 0.00310.00310.0013

Methylene chloride 4 T µg/1 47 2600 -

Nitrate-N + Nitrite-N T mg/1 10 – -

PCB 4 T ng/1 0.0260.0260.12

Sulfates T mg/1 250 – -

2,3,7,8-TCDD 4 T pg/1 0.00860.00860.0031

Toluene T µg/1 5600 51000 -

Toxaphene 4 T ng/1 0.0680.068 -

Trichloroethylene 4 T µg/1 29 370 -

1 S = soluble; T = total; TR = total recoverable.

2 mg/1 = milligrams per liter (parts per million); µg/1 = micrograms per liter (parts per billion); ng/1 = nanograms per liter (parts per trillion); pg/1 = picograms per liter (parts per quadrillion).

3 OMZA = outside mixing zone average.

4 Human health criteria for this chemical are based on a carcinogenic endpoint.

a This criterion applies to the sum of DDT and metabolites.

b Equivalent 25& 176;C specific conductance values are 1200 micromhos/cm as a maximum and 800 micromhos/cm as a thirty-day average.

Eff 2-14-78; 4-4-85; 8-19-85; 4-30-87; 5-1-90; 4-26-97; 10-31-97; 2-22-02; 12-30-02

Rule promulgated under: RC 119.03

Rule authorized by: RC 6111.041

Rule amplifies: RC 6111.041

R.C. Section 119.032 rule review date: 3/25/2002

(A) This rule applies in addition to the requirements contained in rule 3745-1-07 of the Administrative Code to water bodies within the Ohio river drainage basin. Except as provided in paragraph (D) of this rule, the methodologies contained in rule 3745-1-36 of the Administrative Code shall be used when adopting or revising numeric aquatic life water quality criteria and when implementing the narrative aquatic life water quality criteria contained in rule 3745-1-04 of the Administrative Code for water bodies located in the Ohio river drainage basin. Any methodologies and procedures acceptable under 40 C.F.R. 131 may be used when developing or revising human health water quality criteria or implementing narrative criteria contained in rule 3745-1-04 of the Administrative Code for water bodies located in the Ohio river drainage basin.

(B) The chemical-specific criteria listed in this rule apply as “Outside Mixing Zone Averages”. For the purpose of setting water quality based effluent limits, these criteria shall be met after the effluent and the receiving water are reasonably well mixed as provided in rules 3745-2-05 and 3745-2-08 of the Administrative Code.

(C) The water quality criteria adopted in, or developed pursuant to, this rule shall apply as follows:

(1) To protect against adverse reproductive effects on wildlife, “the Outside Mixing Zone Average” criteria for polychlorinated biphenyls is 1.0 ng/l. In addition, any whole sample of any representative aquatic organisms shall not exceed 0.64 mg/kg (wet weight). These criteria, or site-specific modifications thereof, shall apply to all water bodies of the Ohio river drainage basin.

(2) The water quality criteria for protection of human health, or site-specific modifications thereof, are “Outside Mixing Zone Average” water quality criteria and shall apply as follows:

(i) The “Drinking” water quality criteria for the protection of human health shall apply to all water bodies located in the Ohio river drainage basin within five hundred yards of drinking water intakes.

(ii) The “Nondrinking” water quality criteria for the protection of human health shall apply to all water bodies located in the Ohio river drainage basin other than those specified in paragraph (C)(3)(i) of this rule.

(D) For any pollutant for which it is demonstrated that a methodology or procedure cited in this rule is not scientifically defensible, the director may apply an alternative methodology or procedure acceptable under 40 C.F.R. 131 when developing water quality criteria.

Table 34-1. Ohio river drainage basin water quality criteria for the protection of human health.

OMZA 3

Chemical Form 1 Units2 Drinking Nondrinking

Acenaphthene T µg/l 1,200 2,700

Acrolein T µg/l 320 780

Acrylonitrile 5 T µg/l 0.596.6

Alachlor T µg/l 2.0 a -

Aldicarb 6 T µg/l 7.0 a -

Aldicarb sulfone 6 T µg/l 7.0 a -

Aldicarb sulfoxide 6 T µg/l 7.0 a -

Aldrin 5 T µg/l 0.00130.0014

Anthracene T µg/l 9,600 110,000

Antimony TR µg/l 6.0 a 4,300

Arsenic TR µg/l 10 a -

Asbestos T Mf/l 7.0 a -

Atrazine T µg/l 3.0 a -

Barium TR µg/l 2,000 a -

Benzene 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 710

Benzidine 5 T µg/l 0.00120.0054

Benzo (a) anthracene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Benzo (a) pyrene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Benzo (b) fluoranthene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Benzo (k) fluoranthene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Beryllium TR µg/l 4.0 a 280

Bromate T µg/l 10 a -

Bromoform 5 T µg/l 43 3,600

Butylbenzyl phthalate T µg/l 3,000 5,200

Cadmium TR µg/l 5.0 a -

Carbofuran T µg/l 40 a -

Carbon tetrachloride 5 T µg/l 2.5 44

Chloramine T µg/l 4,000 a -

Chlordane 5 T µg/l 0.0210.022

Chlorides T mg/l 250 a -

Chlorine T µg/l 4,000 a -

Chlorine dioxide T µg/l 800 a -

Chlorite T µg/l 1,000 a -

Chloroacetic acid 7 T µg/l 60a -

Chlorobenzene T µg/l 100 a 21,000

Chlorodibromomethane 5 T µg/l 4.1 340

Bis (2-Chloroethyl) ether 5 T µg/l 0.31 14

Chloroform 5 T µg/l 57 4,700

bis (2-Chloroisopropyl) ether T µg/l 1,400 170,000

bis (2-Chloromethyl) ether 5 T µg/l 0.00130.0078

2-Chloronaphthalene T µg/l 1,700 4,300

2-Chlorophenol T µg/l 120 400

Chromium TR µg/l 100 a -

Chrysene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Copper TR µg/l – 1,300

Cyanide free µg/l 200 a 220,000

2,4-D (2,4-Dichlorophenoxy-

acetic acid) T µg/l 70 a -

Dalapon T µg/l 200 a -

4,4’-DDD 5 T µg/l 0.00830.0084

4,4’-DDE 5 T µg/l 0.00590.0059

4,4’-DDT 5 T µg/l 0.00590.0059

Dibenzo (a,h) anthracene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Dibromochloropropane T µg/l 0.2 a -

Di-n-butyl phthalate T µg/l 2,700 12,000

Dichloroacetic acid 7 T µg/l 60a -

1,2-Dichlorobenzene T µg/l 600 a 17,000

1,3-Dichlorobenzene T µg/l 400 2,600

1,4-Dichlorobenzene T µg/l 75 a 2,600

3,3’-Dichlorobenzidine 5 T µg/l 0.400.77

Dichlorobromomethane 5 T µg/l 5.6 460

1,2-Dichloroethane 5 T µg/l 3.8 990

1,1-Dichloroethylene 5 T µg/l 0.57 32

cis-1,2-Dichloroethylene T µg/l 70 a -

trans-1,2-Dichloroethylene T µg/l 100 a 140,000

2,4-Dichlorophenol T µg/l 93 790

1,2-Dichloropropane 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 390

1,3-Dichloropropene T µg/l 10 1,700

Dieldrin 5 T µg/l 0.00140.0014

Di (2-ethylhexyl) adipate T µg/l 400 a -

Diethyl phthalate T µg/l 23,000 120,000

2,4-Dimethylphenol T µg/l 540 2,300

Dimethyl phthalate T µg/l 310,000 2,900,000

4,6-Dinitro-o-cresol

(4,6-Dinitro-2-methylphenol) T µg/l 13 770

Dinitrophenols 4 T µg/l 70 14,000

2,4-Dinitrotoluene 5 T µg/l 1.1 91

Dinoseb T µg/l 7.0 a -

1,2-Diphenylhydrazine 5 T µg/l 0.405.4

Diquat T µg/l 20 a -

Dissolved solids T µg/l 750/500 a,b -

alpha-Endosulfan 8 T µg/l 110 240

beta-Endosulfan 8 T µg/l 110 240

Endosulfan sulfate 8 T µg/l 110 240

Endothall T µg/l 100 a -

Endrin 9 T µg/l 0.760.81

Endrin aldehyde 9 T µg/l 0.760.81

Ethylbenzene T µg/l 700 a 29,000

Ethylene dibromide (EDB) T µg/l 0.050 a -

bis (2-Ethylhexyl) phthalate 5 T µg/l 6.0 a 59

Fluoranthene T µg/l 300 370

Fluorene T µg/l 1,300 14,000

Fluoride T µg/l 4,000 a -

Glyphosate T µg/l 700 a -

Heptachlor 5 T µg/l 0.00210.0021

Heptachlor epoxide 5 T µg/l 0.00100.0011

Hexachlorobenzene 5 T µg/l 0.00750.0077

Hexachlorobutadiene 5 T µg/l 4.4 500

alpha-Hexachlorocyclohexane 5 T µg/l 0.0390.13

beta-Hexachlorocyclohexane 5 T µg/l 0.140.46

gamma-Hexachlorocyclohexane

(Lindane) 5 T µg/l 0.190.63

Hexachlorocyclohexane-

technical grade 5 T µg/l 0.120.41

Hexachlorocyclopentadiene T µg/l 50 a 17,000

Hexachloroethane 5 T µg/l 19 89

Indeno (1,2,3-c,d) pyrene 5 T µg/l 0.0440.49

Iron S µg/l 300 a -

Isophorone 5 T µg/l 360 26,000

Mercury TR µg/l 0.0120.012

Methoxychlor T µg/l 40 a -

Methyl bromide T µg/l 48 4,000

Methylene chloride 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 16,000

Nickel TR µg/l 610 4,600

Nitrate-N + Nitrite-N T µg/l 10,000 a -

Nitrite-N T µg/l 1,000 a -

Nitrobenzene T µg/l 17 1,900

Nitrosoamines 5 T µg/l 0.0080 12

N-Nitrosodibutylamine 5 T µg/l 0.0645.9

N-Nitrosodiethylamine 5 T µg/l 0.0080 12

N-Nitrosodimethylamine 5 T µg/l 0.0069 81

N-Nitrosodi-n-propylamine 5 T µg/l 0.050 14

N-Nitrosodiphenylamine 5 T µg/l 50 160

N-Nitrosodipyrrolidine 5 T µg/l 0.16 920

Oxamyl (Vydate) T µg/l 200 a -

Pentachlorobenzene T µg/l 3.54.1

Pentachlorophenol 5 T mg/l 1.0 a 82

Phenol T µg/l 21,000 4,600,000

Picloram T µg/l 500 a -

Polychlorinated biphenyls 5 T µg/l 0.00170.0017

Pyrene T µg/l 960 11,000

Selenium TR µg/l 50 a 11,000

Silvex (2,4,5-TP, 2-[2,4,5-

Trichlorophenoxy] propionic

acid T µg/l 10 -

Simazine T µg/l 4.0 a -

Styrene T µg/l 100 a -

Sulfates T mg/l 250 a -

1,2,4,5-Tetrachlorobenzene T µg/l 2.32.9

2,3,7,8-Tetrachlorodibenzo-

p-dioxin 5 T pg/l 0.130.14

1,1,2,2-Tetrachloroethane 5 T µg/l 1.7 110

Tetrachloroethylene 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 89

Thallium TR µg/l 1.76.3

Toluene T µg/l 1,000 a 200,000

Toxaphene 5 T µg/l 0.00730.0075

Trichloroacetic acid 7 T µg/l 60a -

1,2,4-Trichlorobenzene T µg/l 70 a 940

1,1,1-Trichloroethane T µg/l 200 a -

1,1,2-Trichloroethane 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 420

Trichloroethylene 5 T µg/l 5.0 a 810

2,4,5-Trichlorophenol T µg/l 2,600 9,800

2,4,6-Trichlorophenol 5 T µg/l 21 65

Vinyl chloride 5 T µg/l 2.0 a 5,300

Xylenes T µg/l 10,000 a -

Zinc T µg/l 9,100 69,000