DEQ water quality program listing

• Citizen monitoring - coordinating and supporting the efforts of Virginia citizens interested in monitoring and improving the quality of Virginia's waters.
• Chesapeake Bay Program - a cooperative program focused on monitoring and reducing the level of pollution in the Chesapeake Bay.
• Construction Assistance Program - promoting cleanup and pollution reduction efforts through low-interest loans and other financial support.
• Fish tissue and sediment monitoring - tracking the level of pollutants that accumulate in the tissues of fish and other aquatic life, and in aquatic sediment
• Water guidance - documents that guide the activities of DEQ, permitted facilities, and members of the public on water-quality related issues.
• Petroleum storage tanks - registration, compliance, and inspection program for storage tanks containing petroleum products and other potential groundwater contaminants.
• Animal feeding operations - permitting program for concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
• Virginia Pollutant Discharge Elimination System - permitting program for point source water discharges, including stormwater runoff, sewage treatment, car washes, and other potential sources of polluted water discharges.
• Total maximum daily loads - developing specific pollutant standards for Virginia's impaired waters, to help guide pollution reduction efforts in those areas.
• Virginia impaired water segments - interactive map detailing the Virginia waterways whose pollution levels do not support all designated uses.
• Wastewater engineering - permitting program to ensure proper construction of water treatment plants and other wastewater facilities.
• Water quality assessments - analyzing Virginia water quality monitoring data to determine areas of particular concern among Virginia's waters.
• Water monitoring - sampling and chemical analysis of Virginia's waters.
• Water quality standards - developing and maintaining specific standards for pollutant levels in Virginia's waters.
• Water regulations - the various federal and state regulations that govern and empower DEQ's water quality-related activities.
• Water resources management - a group of planning and permitting programs to help conserve, manage, and assess Virginia's water supply.
• Watershed Task Force - interagency program to coordinate pollution reduction activities in Virginia.
• Wetlands - permit program for alteration of, construction near, and discharge into Virginia's wetlands and surface waters.