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DEQ summarizes water‑quality programs, monitoring and TMDL work; flags federal shortfall
Summary
Jennifer Weigel, DEQ water quality administrator, told the Natural Resources Subcommittee on April 8 that water quality work spans monitoring, standards, permits and TMDLs, that monitoring informs a biennial integrated report, and that DEQ faces a small federal grant shortfall equal to roughly one FTE for the coming biennium.
Jennifer Weigel, water quality administrator at the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality, briefed the Natural Resources Subcommittee on April 8 on the scope of DEQ’s water quality work, the agency’s funding mix and monitoring‑based decisions that lead to total maximum daily loads (TMDLs).
"For the record, my name is Jennifer Weigel," she said when introducing the overview. Weigel told lawmakers that water quality has many subprograms working to protect surface water and groundwater, and that DEQ uses monitoring, assessments and permitting to identify and address impairments.
DEQ said water quality’s budget differs from Land Quality: general funds make up roughly 42% of the water budget, federal funds about 17% and lottery…
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