Water Quality Permitting Resources

Wastewater permitting resources

• Drinking Water and High Water Quality Rivers – Three Basin Rule Protection
  
• NPDES Program Memorandum of Agreement between DEQ and EPA - April 2010
• Antidegradation Policy for Point Sources
  
• DEQ Service Quality Pledge to Oregon Wastewater Permit Holders
  
• Template for LID Stormwater Manual for Western Oregon

• Commonly Requested Information for Water Quality Permit Renewals

Drought 2021

• Water treatment best practices during drought 2021 
  

Community wastewater systems

• Preparing Hauled-Waste Acceptance Plans
  Prepared jointly by ACWA and DEQ's Industrial Pretreatment Advisory Committee, October 2015
• Natural Treatment Systems - A Water Quality Match for Oregon's Cities and Towns
  Prepared jointly by ACWA and DEQ's Natural Treatment System Advisory Committee, July 2014
• Engineering Design Review Exemption Process Fact Sheet
  
• Regulatory Requirements for Common Sewer System Owners Fact Sheet
  

Guidance for disposal of chlorinated water discharges

• Swimming Pools and Hot Tubs
  

• Other Chlorinated Water Discharges
  

Land application

• Guidelines for Land Application of Industrial Solid Wastes - August 1993
• Operations, Monitoring and Management Plans for Land Application of Non-Sanitary Wastewater - November 2002
• Land Application Laws and DEQ's Procedure for Proposals to Land Apply on EFU Lands - 2001

Marinas and shipyards

• Best Management Practices for Oregon Marinas - May 2002      

• Best Management Practices for Oregon Shipyards - October 2000
  

Monitoring and reporting

• Electronic Data Delivery of Toxic Data
• Small Laboratory Quality Manual Template, February 2014
  
• Discharge monitoring report forms for domestic individual permits

Permit issuance

• Permit issuance plans

Program improvements

• WQ Permitting Program Review - Read more about DEQ's work to improve the NPDES permitting program and the recommendations contained in a 2016 independent consultant's report.
  

Vehicle or equipment wash water

• Recommended Best Management Practices for Washing Activities - March 1998