Environmental Protection
Agency
Regulations and Standards
Washington, DC 20460
EPA 4401548-048
September 1988
State Water Quality
Standards  Summary:
Idaho

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     This publication was prepared by Battelle under contract  to
the  U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (Contract  68-03-3534).
Secondary information sources were used to compile data presented
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     The  reader should consult  the water quality standards of  a
particular State for exact regulatory language applicable to that
State.   Copies of State water quality standards may be  obtained
from   the  State's  Water  Pollution  Control  Agency  .or   its
equivalent.

     Additional information may  also be obtained from the:

                        Standards  Branch
            Criteria and Standards Division (WH-585)
            Office of Water Regulations and Standards
              U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
                     Washington, D.C.  20460
                          202-475-7315
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                                        IDAHO
Responsible  'Agency:
 Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare
 Division of Environmental Quality
 450 W. State Street
 Boise
 208-334-5839
83720
Standards  Available   From:
 Lil Nesiith
 Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
 Adiinistrative Procedures Section
 450 K. State Street
 Boise                 83720
                Fee:           Hailing List:  no
State  Contact:
 Hr. ftl        Hurrey
 Chief
 Hater Quality Bureau, Div. Env.  Quality
 Idaho Department of Health and Welfare
 450 W. State Street
 Boise                 83720       208-334-5860

State  Contacts
 Us. Susan     Hartin
 Manager
 Plan, ft Tech. Support Sect., W.Q. Bureau
 Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare
 450 W. State Street
 Boise                 83720       208-334-5845
State  Narrative  Language   Fors   Antidegradation
 No new point source can discharge, and no existing point source can increase  its  discharge,  above  the design
 capacity of the existing wastewater treatment facility to any water designated as  special  resource  Hater or to
 the upstream segment of a special resource Mater, if pollutants significant to the designated uses  contained
 in that discharge can or will result in a reduction of the ambient Hater  quality  of  the receiving  special
 resource Mater as measured immediatly beloM applicable mixing zone.
 Please refer to the 'EPA Water Quality Criteria Summaries:  A Compilation of State/Federal Criteria"  for
 additional antidegradation language for Idaho.

State  Narrative  Language   Fors   Toxics
 The following general water quality standards Mill apply to Haters of the  State,  both surface and  under-
 ground, in addition to the Mater  quality standards set forth for. specifically classified  Haters.   As a result
 of man-caused point or nonpoint source discharge, waters of the State must not contain:
 .01  Hazardous Materials:  (see Section 01.2003,19.) in concentrations found to be of public  health signifi-
 cance or to adversely affect designated or protected beneficial uses.
 .02  Deleterious Materials:  (see Section 01,2003,07.) in concentrations that impair  designated or  protected
 beneficial uses without being hazardous.

State  Narrative  Language   Fors   Free  From
 Haters of the State Bust not contain:  ,
 1.  Hazardous materials in concentrations found to be of public health significance or to  adversely affect
 designated or protected beneficial uses.                                                             ,
 2.  Deleterious materials in concentrations that impair designated or protected beneficial uses without being
 hazardous.  These materials do not include suspended sediment produced as a result of nonpoint source activity
 3.  Radioactive materials or radioactivity which:
 (a)  Exceed one-third (1/3) of the values listed in Idaho Department of Health and Welfare Rules and  Regula-
 tions, Title 1, Chapter 9, Section 01.9110,03.a.ii., 'Rules Governing Radiation Control."
 (b)  Exceed concentrations required to meet the "Radiation Protection Guides' for  maximum  exposure  of critical
 huean organs recommended by the. former Federal Radiation Council in the case of food  stuffs harvested from
 these waters for human consumption.
 4.  Floating, suspended, or submerged matter of any kind in concentrations causing nuisance or objectionable
 conditions or that may adversely affect designated beneficial uses.
 5.  Excess nutrients that can cause visible slime growths or other nuisance aquatic growths impairing
 designated or protected beneficial uses.
 6.  Oxygen-demanding materials in concentrations that would result in an anaerobic water condition.
 7.  Sedieent in quanities specified in Idaho Dept. of Health and Welfare Rules and Regulations Section 01.2250
 or, in the absence of specific sediment criteria, in quantities which impair beneficial uses.  Determinations
 of iepairment shall be based on water quality monitoring and surv. and the information described in Idaho
 Rules and Regulations Section 01.2300, 04.b.
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State  Narrative  Language  For:   Mixing   Zones
 After a biological, chemical, and  physical appraisal of the receiving water  and the proposed discharge  and
 after consultation with the person(s) responsible for the wastewater discharge,  the  Department will  determine
 the applicability of a mixing zone and, if applicable, its size, configuration,  and  location.   In  defining a
 mixing zone, the Department Hill consider the following principals:
 (a)  The mixing zone may receive «astewater through a submerged pipe, conduit,  or diffuser.
 (b)  The mixing zone is to be located  so it does not cause unreasonable interference with or  danger to
 existing beneficial uses.
 (c)  Hhen two [2J or more individual mixing zones are needed for a single activity,  the sum  of the areas  and
 volumes of the several mixing zones is not to exceed the area and volume which  would be allowed for  a single
 zone.
 (d)  Multiple mixing zones can be established for a single discharge,  each being specific for one (1) or more
 pollutants contained within the discharged Hastewater.
 (e)  Nixing zones in flowing receiving waters are to be limited to the following:
 i.  The cumulative width of adjacent mixing zones when measured across the receiving  water  is not to  exceed 501
 of  the total width of the receiving water  at that point.
 ii. The width of a mixing zone is not  to exceed 25Z of the stream width of three hundred  meters plus the
 horizontal length of the diffuser as measured perpendicularly to the stream flow, whichever  is less.
 iii.  The mixing zone is to be no closer to the 10 year, 7  day low-flow  shoreline than 15Z of  the  stream  width
 Please refer to the 'EPA Hater Quality Criteria Summaries:  A Compilation of State/Federal  Criteria1
 for additional  mixing zone language for Idaho.                                                             •
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Classifications
 Agricultural
 Hater Supplies

 Domestic
 Hater Supplies

 Cold Water Biota
 Hart Hater Biota
 Salmonid Spawning
 Primary Contact
 Recreation
 Secondary Contact
 Recreation
 Unspecified Surface
 Maters
 Industrial Hater
 Supplies, Wildlife
 Habitats t Aesthetic
 Han-Rade waterways
 Private Haters
                                        IDAHO
Haters which are suitable or intended  to be tade suitable for the irrigation of
crops or as drinking water for livestock.
Haters which are suitable or intended
supplies.
to be made suitable for drinking water
Haters which are suitable or intended  to be made suitable for protection and
•aintenance of viable communities of aquatic organises and populations of
significant aquatic species which have optimal growing temperatures below
18 degrees C.

Haters which are suitable or intended  to be iade suitable for protection and
•aintenance of viable communities of aquatic organists and populations of
significant aquatic species which have optiial growing temperatures above
IS degrees C.*

Haters which provide or could provide a habitat for active self-propagating
populations of salionid fish.

Surface waters which are suitable or intended to be tade suitable for prolonged
and intiaate contact by (weans or for recreational activities when the ingestion
of small quantities of water is likely to occur.  Such waters include, but are
not restricted to, those used for swining, water skiing or skin diving.

Surface waters which are suitable or intended to be made suitable for
recreational uses on or about the water which are not included in the primary
contact category.  These waters may be used for fishing, boating, wading and
other activities where ingestion of raw water is not probable.

Surface waters not specified in Idaho Department of Health and Helfare Rules and
Regulations Section 01.2110 — 01.2160  are designated as primary contact
recreational waters, unless the  physical characteristics of a water body
prevent primary contact recreation.  In those cases, the water body is
designated a secondary contact recreational water.

All State waters are designated for the uses of industrial water supplies, wild-
life habitat and aesthetics.  Hater quality criteria for those uses will
generally be satisfied by the general water quality standards (Idaho Dept. of
Health t Helfare Rules and Regulations Section 01.2200).  Should specificity be
desirable or necessary to protect a specific use, appropriate criteria will be
adopted in Idaho Dept. of Health 4 Helfare Rules and Regulations Sections
01.2250 or 01.2275 - 01.2299.

Unless designated in Idaho Dept. of Health & Helfare Rules and Regulations
Sections 01.2110 — 01.2160, man-made waterways are to be protected for the use
for which they were developed.

Unless designated in Idaho Dept. of Health 4 Helfare Rules and Regulations
Sections 01.2110 — 01.2160, lakes, ponds, pools, streams and springs outside
public lands taut located wholly and entirely upon a person's land are not
protected specifically or generally for any beneficial use.
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                                                 IDAHO
 Physical
     pH
          Upper Value
          Loner Value
     Dissolved Oxygen
          Loner Value
     Teiperature
          Upper Value
     Turbidity
          Upper Value

 Nutrients
     Auonia, Tot.
          Upper Value
     Nitrate
          Upper Value

 Toxic Metals
     Arsenic
          Upper Value
     Cadiiui
          Upper Value
     Chrotiui - Total
         Upper Value
     Cyanide
         Upper Value
     Lead
         Upper Value
     Mercury
         Upper Value
     Bariui
         Upper Value
     Seleniui
         Upper Value
     Silver
         Upper Value

Pesticides
     2,4 D
         Upper Value
     2,4,5-TP Silvex
         Upper Value
    Endrin
         Upper Value
    Lindane
         Upper Value
    Nethoxychlor
         Upper Value
    Toxaphene
         Upper Value

Organics
                                         All
                                         Classes
9.0
6.5
                   Agricultural
Domestic
Cold Hater Biot.
Narr.
                                      10     ig/L as N



                                      0.05   ig/L

                                      0.01   ig/L

                                      0.05   ig/L

                                      0.02   ig/L

                                      0.05   ig/L

                                      0.002  ig/L

                                      1.000  ig/L

                                      0.01   ig/L

                                      0.05   ig/L



                                      0.100  ig/L

                                      0.01   ig/L

                                      0.0002 ig/L

                                      0.004  ig/L

                                      0.100  ig/L

                                      0.005  ig/L
                                                        6      ig/L

                                                        22     C
                                                        Narr.
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Bacteria
                                        All   .
                                        Classes
    Total  Col if on
        Upper Value
Agricultural       Doiestic
                  Narr.
Cold Water Biot.
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                                                IDAHO
                                         Nan Hater  Blot..  Salionid Spaimi..  Prinary Contact    Secondary Conta..
Physical
    Dissolved Oxygen
         Loner Value
    Teiperature
         Upper Value

Nutrients
    Aitonia, Tot.
         Upper Value

Toxic Metals

Pesticides

Organics

Bacteria
    Fecal Colifori
         Upper Value
5

33



Narr.
•g/L

C
6

13



Narr.
•g/L

C
                                     500    /100 iL.    800    /100
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                                                IDAHO
                                         Unspecified Sur..  Industrial Hate..  Man-Hade Haterw..  Private Haters
Physical




Nutrients




Toxic Metals




Pesticides



Organics




Bacteria
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