County: Tarrant
Parameter: polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) in
fish tissue
River Basin: Trinity
Segment: 0807
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Lake
Worth
Photograph courtesy of
the
Fort Worth Water Department
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Project Background
Lake Worth (Segment 0807) is a 3,558-acre impoundment of the
West Fork Trinity River located in northwest Tarrant County. The
lake has a conservation capacity of approximately 37,000 acre-feet,
and drains a 2,064 square-mile watershed. Water quality testing
found that fish in Lake Worth (Segment 0807) are contaminated with
polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), resulting in an advisory to the
public in 2002 to limit their consumption of fish caught in the
lake.
The goal of this project is to reduce PCBs to levels that will
make it safe to eat fish from the lake.
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TMDL for Lake Worth
The goal of a TMDL is to restore the full use of a water body
that has limited quality in relation to one or more of its uses.
The TMDL defines an environmental target by determining the extent
to which a certain pollutant must be reduced in order to attain and
maintain the affected use. Based on this environmental target, the
state develops an implementation plan to mitigate anthroprogenic
sources of pollution within the watershed and restore full use of
the water body.
This TMDL was adopted by the Commission on August 10, 2005. It
was approved the the United States Environmental Protection Agency
(EPA) on October 13, 2005, and is part of the state's Water Quality
Management Plan.
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Implementation Plan
The Commission approved this I-Plan on August 23, 2006. The
I-Plan is part of the state's Water Quality Management Plan.
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For More Information
For further information regarding the proposed TMDLs, please
contact Roger Miranda, Project Manager, at 512/239-6278. Or e-mail
us rmiranda@tceq.state.tx.us
and reference the Lake Worth PCB project in the subject line.
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