62-303
What is the threshold for the annual geometric mean chlorophyll a in estuaries without a numeric interpretation of the narrative nutrient criterion?
What is greater than 11 ug/L in any year.
(62-303.353(2))
This parameter requires at least two temporally independent passing bioassessments to be delisted from the Verified List.
What is Biology (SCI or LVI)?
The presence of this genetic marker can support a human source of bacteria impairment, but is not unique to humans.
What is HF183-qPCR?
This plan type allows a waterbody to be placed in Category 4b if it is underway or completed and approved by DEP.
What is a Reasonable Assurance Plan (RAP)?
A Clear, Acidic Lake (Lake Assessment Type 3) has a Chlorophyll-a AGM of this µg/L.
What is 6 µg/L?
What are the lengths of data periods for the Planning and Verified Periods?
What is Planning List: 10 years; Verified List: data 7.5 years.
(62-303.300, 62-303.400(3))
This term describes the standard used for Streams, Non-ENR estuaries, and NNC Exclusions.
What is Threshold?
For beach advisories, a waterbody is placed on the Verified List if advisories total at least this many days in a calendar year during the verified period.
What is 21 days?
This category is used for impaired waters with restoration activities in progress, but insufficient information to evaluate if they will result in attainment, and is considered a low TMDL priority.
What is Category 5r?
Lake color and alkalinity shall be long-term geometric means based on this minimum data sufficiency for the period of record.
What is a minimum of ten data points over at least three years with at least one data point in each year?
(62-302.531(2)(c))
What is the minimum average LVI score below which a lake is considered impaired, and what additional information is required if only two LVIs are available and the difference is greater than 20 points?
Below 43; if only two LVIs and the difference is greater than 20 points, a third LVI is required and the average of all three is used.
(62-303.430(2)(b))
This parameter group could potentially be used as a causative pollutant for DO, if impaired.
What are nutrients, including nutrient trends?
For Dissolved Oxygen (Percent Saturation) in streams to be placed in Category 4c, this is the maximum landscape index value allowed.
What is an LDI (Landscape Development Intensity) of 4?
If a waterbody meets the exclusion from the streams definition, it is no longer assessed for these parameters.
What are TN, TP, Biology, Algal Mats, Macrophytes?
This parameter must not be depressed below 20 mg/L as CaCO3 in Class I and Class III fresh waters, unless natural levels are lower.
What is Alkalinity?
62-302.530
This parameter group requires a minimum of 4 AGMs in the assessment period (either PP or VP); with each AGM requiring 2 seasons and a minimum of 4 samples.
What are nutrient trends?
If individual values exceed acutely toxic levels listed in Table 2, the ___ value shall be used to represent the sampling period.
What is worst-case?
For a nutrient trend impairment to be delisted from the Verified List, this must occur for two consecutive listing cycles.
What is there is no longer a statistically significant increasing trend?
(62-303.720(2)(k)(7), F.A.C.)
A waterbody can be delisted from the Verified List for bacteria (beach advisories) if this requirement is met.
What is fewer than 21 days of advisories per year for five consecutive years?
Substances in concentrations which result in the dominance of this type of species shall not be present in any class of surface water.
What are nuisance species?
62-302.530(47)
This is the required approach for handling I qualified data for nutrient assessments?
What is I qualified data are used as is.
(62-303.320(12)(b)))
This is the minimum number of new consecutive temporally-independent passing bioassessments required to remove a biology impairment from the Verified List.
What is two?
This is, currently, the only scenario where a waterbody can be placed in Category 2t for E. coli or Enterococci.
What is when it is not impaired based on a Fecal Coliform TMDL, for tracking purposes?
For a waterbody in a BMAP boundary to be placed in Category 4e, this must be confirmed each assessment cycle.
What is confirmation of restoration activity within the WBID or directly upstream?
This is one of the methods for demonstrating that a segment is non-perennial.
What is: 1) site-specific gage and discharge data, or 2) biological demonstration based on the resident flora or fauna