DEQ water quality program listing
- Animal feeding operations - permitting and inspections program for livestock and poultry animal feeding operations (AFOs) and concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs).
- Biosolids - permitting and inspection program for the land application of biosolids (treated sewage sludge) for use as fertilizer.
- 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.
- Total maximum daily loads - developing specific pollutant standards for Virginia's impaired waters, to help guide pollution reduction efforts in those areas.
- 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.
- Virginia impaired water segments - interactive map launch page detailing 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 guidance - documents that guide the activities of DEQ, permitted facilities, and members of the public on water-quality related issues.
- Water monitoring - sampling and chemical analysis of Virginia's waters, citizen coordination and support efforts, tracking of pollutants that accumulate in fish tissue and other aquatic life, and in aquatic sediments.
- Water quality assessments - analyzing Virginia water quality monitoring data to determine areas of particular concern among 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.
- Water reuse - permitting program for the reclamation of municipal and industrial wastewater and reuse of the reclaimed water.
- Watershed Task Force - Report on Watershed Planning and Permitting 2006.
- Wetlands - permit program for alteration of, construction near, and discharge into Virginia's wetlands and surface waters.