Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation

Division of Water, Water Quality Standards, Assessment and Restoration Program

Draft Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDL) for Lead, Zinc, and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon in Lakebed Sediments for Lake Lucile in Wasilla, Alaska Available for Public Comment

Lake Lucile, Wasilla, AK, is included on Alaska’s Clean Water Act Section 303(d) List of Impaired Waterbodies as polluted for lead, zinc, and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon in the lakebed sediments. Water quality samples repeatedly demonstrate these pollutants exceed the state’s allowed limits. The majority of the metals and PAH pollutant loading to the lake comes as stormwater runoff from the urban land areas that drain to Lake Lucile through the piped stormwater system. A draft TMDL has been developed for the recovery of Lake Lucile and is available for public comment.

The Clean Water Act (Section 303(d)(1)(C)) requires TMDLs to be developed for impaired (polluted) waterbodies. A TMDL is a pollution budget. It sets the maximum amount of a pollutant (or pollutants) that may be discharged into an impaired waterbody while still meeting the state’s allowed limits, and suggests ways to achieve this goal.

Find the Draft TMDL and Fact Sheet on the Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation website at: http://dec.alaska.gov/water/water-quality/impaired-waters/

This public notice period runs from March 24 – April 28, 2020. Public comments on the Draft TMDL must be submitted in writing through e-mail, fax or mail and directed to the contact listed below by 5:00 PM April 28, 2020.

For questions, copies of the Draft TMDL, or to submit comments contact:

DEC
Laura Eldred, Environmental Program Specialist
1700 E. Bogard Road, Building B, Suite 103
Wasilla, AK 99654
Ph. (907) 376-1855
Fax. (907) 376-2382
laura.eldred@alaska.gov