United States
Environmental Protection
Agency
Office of Water
Regulations and Standards
Washington, DC 20*60
EPA 440/5-88-087
September 1988
xvEPA
Water
State Water Quality
Standards Summary:
West Virginia
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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
This document may be obtained only from the National Technical
Information Service (NTIS) at the following address:
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The NTIS order number is: PB89-142194
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Responsible Agency
State Hater Resources Board
1260 Breenbrier Street
Charleston
304-348-4002
25311
Standards Available From:
Division of Hater Resources
1201 Breenbrier Street
State Contact:
flr, Jan R. 'Taylor
Technical Advisor
State Hater Resources Board
1260 Breenbrier Street
Charleston 25311
State Contact:
304-348-4002
Charleston
304-348-7561
Fee:
25311
no
Hailing List: yes
State Narrative Language For: Antidegradation
Existing instreai water uses and the level of water quality necessary to protect the existing uses shall be
laintained and protected. Haste assiiilation and transport are not recognized as designated uses. The
classification of the waters must take into consideration the use and value of water for public water
supplies, protection and propagation of fish, shellfish and wildlife, recreation in and on the water,
agricultural industrial and other purposes including navigation. Subcategories of a use lay be adopted and
appropriate criteria set to reflect varying needs of such subcategories of uses,for exaiple, to differentiate.1
between trout water and other waters.
Please refer to the 'EPA Hater Quality Criteria Summaries: A Compilation of State/Federal Criteria" for
additional antidegradation language for Hest Virginia.
State Narrative Language For: Toxics
No sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes present in any of the waters of the State shall cause or
•aterially contribute to concentrations of materials harmful, hazardous, or toxic to ian, aniial, or aquatic
life.
State Narrative Language For: Free From
No sewage, industrial wastes or other wastes present in any of the waters of the State shall cause therein or
saterially contribute to any of the following conditions thereof:
A. Distinctly visible floating or settleable solids, suspended solids, scum, foam or oily slicks;
B. Deposits or sludge banks on the bottom;
C. Odors in the vicinity of the waters;
D. Taste and/or odor that would adversely affect the designated uses of the affected waters;
E. Concentrations of naterials hariful, hazardous or toxic to ian, aniial or aquatic life;
F. Distinctly visible color;
6. Concentrations of bacteria which iay impair or interfere with the designated uses of the affected waters;
H. Requiring an unreasonable degree of treatment for the production of potable water by todern water
treatsent processes as cooionly employed;
1. Any other condition, including radiological exposure, which alters the cheiical, physical or biological
integrity of the waters of the State.
State Narrative Language For: Low -Flow
Water quality standards shall not apply in wet weather streais (or intermittent streais, when they are dry or
have no measurable flow) provided that the designated uses of downstream waters are not adversely affected.
State Narrative Language For: Mixing Zones
In the penit review and planning process or upon the request of a penit applicant or penittee the Chief lay
establish on a case-by-case basis an appropriate lixing zone.
(A) The following criteria shall be applied to the establishment of mixing zones:
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(1) nixing zones shall:
i. Be kept as ssall as practical in area and length; ii. Not be used for, or considered as, a substitute
for Haste treatient; iii. Provide for as rapid a lixing as practicable; iv. Not prevent the free passage
of aquatic species or include spatming or nursery areas; v. Hot overlap a public water supply intake;
vi. Not cause or contribute to any of the conditions prohibited in Section 3; and vii. Not interfere with
any designated use category.
(2) The boundaries of the lixing zone shall reflect:
(a) Receiving Hater body characteristics such as:
i. Hater quality, ii. Local leteorology, iii. Flow regite, iv. Magnitude of water exchange at point of
discharge, v. Stratification phenoiena, vi. Naste capacity of the receiving streat including retention
tiie, vii. Turbulence and speed of flow, viii. Morphology of the receiving systei as related to pluie be-
havior, and biological phenoiena, ix. Designated water use categories; and
(b) Discharge characteristics such as:
i. Flow regiie, ii. Volute, iii. Design, iv. Location, v. Rate of tixing and dilution, and
vi. Pluae behavior and lass-eiission rates of constituents including knowledge of their persistence, toxicity
and cheiical or physical behavior with tiie.
{B) Where the 7-day 10-year return frequency is 5 cfs or less, no lixing zone lay be established.
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Classifications:
_ Harmter Aquatic 81 - Han Water Fishery Streais - Strews or streai segients which contain a
Habitat fish population coiposed overwhelmingly of wan water species (priiarily sport
Cat. B1,B3 fisheries and say be stocked with trout seasonally).
B3 - Siall Non-Fishable Streais - Strsais or streai segients which because of
their size or flow patterns do not oner sport fishing; they generally contain
only ainnows, darters, etc.
Hater Contact This category includes swisiing, fishing, water skiing, and certain types of
Recreation * pleasure boating such as sailing in very stall craft and siall outboard lotor
Category C boats.
Public Hater Supply This category is used to describe waters which, after conventional treatment
Category A are used for hutan consumption.
Agricultural Hater This category includes all water used for agriculture, includes irrigation as
Supply well as livestock watering. It is understood that these waters would also be
Categ. B3 suitable for wildlife watering.
Trout Haters
Categ. 82
Hater Transport, This category includes, cooling water, power production, conercial and pleasure
Cooling and Power vessel activity, except those stall craft included in Category C.
El, E2, E3
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Physical
pH
Upper Value
Lower Value
Dissolved Oxygen
Loner Value
Teiperature
Upper Value
Teiperature Change
Upper Value
Turbidity
Upper Value
Chlorides
Upper Value
Nutrients
Aiionia
Upper Value
Nitrate
Upper Value
Nitrite
Upper Value
Toxic Metals
Arsenic
Upper Value
Cadiiui
Upper Value
Chroiiut - Hexavalent
Upper Value
Copper
Upper Value
Cyanide
Upper Value
Iron
Upper Value
Lead
Upper Value
Zinc
Upper Value
Bariui
Upper Value
Manganese
Upper Value
Seleniua
Upper Value
Silver
Upper Value
Pesticides
fill Water Contact Public Hater Su.. Harwater ftquat.
Classes Category C Category A Cat. B1,B3
9.0
6.0
5.0 ig/L 5.0 ig/L 5.0 tg/L
Narr.
Narr.
10.0 ig/L
100 ug/L
Narr.
250 tg/L
5.0 ug/L
0.05 ig/L
Narr.- (10 §g/L)
50 ug/L
1000 ug/L
1.5 «g/L
50.0 ug/L
Narr. (600 ug/L)
1.0 ig/L
1.0 §g/L
10.0 ug/L
Narr. (24 ug/L)
1.0 ig/L
1.5 ig/L
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All Mater Contact Public Hater Su.. Harimater Aquat.
Classes Category C ' Category A Cat. B1,B3
Aldrin & Dieldrin
Upper Value 0.0019 ug/L
Chlordane
Upper Value 0.0043 ug/L
DDT
Upper Value 0.001 ug/L
Endrin
Upper Value 0.0023 ug/L
Hethoxychlor
Upper Value 0.03 ug/L
Toxaphene
Upper Value 0.005 ug/L
Organics
Phenolic Coipounds
Upper Value 5.0 ug/L
PCBs
Upper Value 0.001 ug/L
Bacteria
Fecal Colifon
Upper Value Narr. Narr.
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Physical
Nutrients
Toxic 'Hetals
Iron
Upper Value
Nickel
Upper Value
Pesticides
Organics
Bacteria
Trout Haters Agricultural Ha., Hater Transport.
Categ. B2 Categ. B3 El, E2, E3
0.5 ig/L
50.0 ug/L
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