Water and Waste Home

Reports and resources produced by the various groups within the Division of Water and Waste Management.

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• 303(d) Integrated Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment Report - Incl. Impaired Streams

  A list of impaired waters to provide an overall assessment of West Virginia's waters to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• Ambient Water Quality Data Report

  View historical (to present) charts of ambient water quality data for various watersheds in the state. Recent data should be considered provisional and subject to revision.

• Reports on Benthic, Water Quality and Watershed Assessments

  A list of various reports producced by the watershed management group with DWWM.

• Special Studies on Water Quality

  Special studies that have occurred within the Watershed Assessment Branch and often in conjuction with other groups including other DEP personnel, Federal personnel, and often locals.

• Total Maximum Daily Loads

  A Total Maximum Daily Load is a plan of action used to clean up streams that are not meeting water quality standards.

• Volunteer Monitoring Data

  A Volunteer Assessment Database has been developed to house information from volunteers who monitor our streams. This database is maintained through the Save Our Streams Program.

• Water Quality Data Reporting Tool

  This lookup tool will show reports for various parameters collected from various watersheds throughout the state. Note that recent data should be considered provisional and subject to revision.

• Water Resources Protection & Management Act Progress Reports

  Annual progress reports that have been presented to the Joint Legislative Oversight Commission

This site contains links and information on programs that provide direct services to the public to help in learning about working towards improving the environment. Explore more ways to get involved.

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• DEP Mobile Aquarium

  The mobile aquarium highlights partnerships between the Division of Natural Resources and the Department of Environmental Protection in which both agencies strive to improve water quality, conserve resources, and restore fish habitat.

• Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program

  Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program coordinates multi-agency and non-government organizations efforts to address nonpoint pollution.

• Restoration Planting Tool

  Match your restoration site characteristics with corresponding native plant communities. Get a list of plants that are pre-adapted to your site, likely to thrive with minimal maintenance, and provide important habitat for birds, butterflies, and other native species.

• Stream Partners Program

  SPP is a grant program created to support the efforts of local watershed groups.

• Support for Watershed Groups

  WVDEP coordinates efforts through the Division of Water and Waste Management, Nonpoint Source Program, 106 and Stream Partners.

• Water Education Today (Project WET)

  Project WET is an international, interdisciplinary water science and education program for educators of all sorts - public and private school teachers, water resource professionals, youth club leaders and many others. Project WET workshops are FREE and conducted throughout the state.

• WV Save Our Streams

  The mission of WV Save Our Streams (SOS) is to promote the preservation and restoration of our state's waters by providing an understanding of their ecological integrity.

Environmental Enforcement (EE) promotes compliance with the Solid Waste Management Act, Water Pollution Control Act, Groundwater Protection Act, Hazardous Waste Management Act, Underground Storage Tank Act, and Dam Safety Act by providing assistance, inspecting regulated sites, and enforcing conditions required by these acts.

• Environmental Enforcement Homepage
• Contact Environmental Enforcement

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• Above and Underground Storage Tanks

  The Tanks Unit within Environmental Enforcement is comprised of Corrective Action and Prevention staff overseeing aboveground, underground, leaking aboveground, and leaking underground storage tanks.

• Complaints

  Use this online form to file a complaint involving dam safety, underground storage tanks, hazardous waste, or water/waste.

• Dam Safety (Non-Coal)

  The mission of the Dam Safety Section is to protect lives and property from the danger of a dam failure.

• Hazardous Waste

  The hazardous waste (HW) section with Environmental Enforcement promotes compliance by providing assistance and/or enforcing regulatory requirements of hazardous waste generators and hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities

• Spills

  In the event of an emergency, a spill or an accidential discharge, immediately call 1-800-642-3074

• Water and Waste

  The Water and Waste (WW) section within Environmental Enforcement promotes compliance by providing assistance and / or enforcing permit conditions required of municipalities, solid waste facilities, industry and the public.

The permitting section of the Division of Water and Waste Management is a majory regulatory arm of the agency that manages all non-mining water permits, solid waste permits and hazardous waste permits.

• Water and Waste Permits Homepage

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• Hazardous Waste Permitting

  Anyone in West Virginia who is constructing, operating, modifying or closing a hazardous waste treatment, storage, or disposal facility must apply and receive a hazardous waste permit.

• RCRA Hazardous Waste

  The Hazardous Waste Management Program has the primary responsibility of regulating the management of hazardous waste within the state.

• Solid Waste Facilities Permitting

  The Solid Waste Unit is reponsible for ensuring that all appropriate solid waste facilities hold valid permits for the department to install, establish, construct, operate or close said facilities within the State of West Virginia.

• Solid Waste Program

  Overview of the solid waste program within DWWM.

The permitting section of the Division of Water and Waste Management is a majory regulatory arm of the agency that manages all non-mining water permits, solid waste permits and hazardous waste permits.

• Water and Waste Permits Homepage

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• General NPDES Permits

  The Division of Water and Waste Management implements programs to control surface water pollution caused by point source discharges of wastewater from public and private sewage collection and treatment systems, industrial wastewater treatment facilities, and municipal and industrial landfills.

• Individual NPDES Permits

  Facilities that discharge wastewater to receiving waters in West Virginia must apply for a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit for that discharge.

• NPDES Discharge Monitoring Reporting

  After a facility receives an NPDES permit, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection (WVDEP) requires the permittee to submit Discharge Monitoring Report (DMR) information.

• Stream Disturbances Permit Guidance

  This booklet is for informational purposes only and provides a brief overview of the various permits or certifications required before land disturbing work is conducted in and around West Virginia streams and wetlands.

• Non-Mining Underground Injection Control Permits

  The Underground Injection Control (UIC) program is designed to ensure that fluids injected underground will not endanger drinking water sources. The Division of Water and Waste Management regulates non-mining Class 5 injection wells.

• Septic Tank Seal Registration

  Septic Tank Registration Seal Fees are required by any person/company who obtains a small sewage disposal installation permit.

• Stormwater Permitting

  The Stormwater Permit Team administers all stormwater related General Permits.

• Water Permitting

  Non-mining water permits, solid waste permits and hazardous waste permits.

Below is a subset of the programs overseen by the Division of Water and Waste Management. Explore additional Water and Waste programs.

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• Chesapeake Bay Program

  Since 2002, West Virginia has been a formal partner in the Chesapeake Bay cleanup.

• Clean Water State Revolving Fund (SRF)

  The Clean Water State Revolving Fund program is a funding program to address water quality problems through wastewater facility construction, upgrades, or expansions.

• Groundwater/Underground Injection Control (UIC)

  The Division of Water and Waste Management's Groundwater/UIC Program coordinates the groundwater protection efforts of the Bureau for Public Health, the Department of Agriculture, and various DEP programs under the authority of the 1991 Groundwater Protection Act and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.

• Laboratory Quality Assurance Program

  The Laboratory Quality Assurance Program (LQAP) is responsible for accrediting environmental laboratories to ensure that the data generated for covered statutory program purposes is accurate, reproducible, and verifiable

• Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program

  Nonpoint Source (NPS) Program coordinates multi-agency and non-government organizations efforts to address nonpoint pollution

• Water Quality Standards

  Water Quality Standards (Standards) are the foundation of the water quality based control program mandated by the Clean Water Act

• Water Use

  Water Use information on the quantity and use of state surface and groundwater resources.

• Watershed Management

  To establish a method to tackle these remaining problems managements must come together to better understand the interactions between the environmental components and the actions that can be taken by all towards the goal of ecosystem integrity.

In 2004, the West Virginia legislature passed the Water Resources Protection Act. The purpose of the act was to gather Water Use information on the quantity and use of state surface and groundwater resources. In 2008, the act was amended and renamed the Water Resources Protection and Management Act. The amended act required the development of a water resources management plan for the state by 2013.

• Water Use Section Homepage
• Contact Water Use Section

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• Annual Certification for Large Quantity Users

  Effective January 1, 2015, the minimum reporting threshold has been lowered to 300,000 gallons withdrawn from surface or groundwater sources in any 30-day period. Annual reporting must include monthly water withdrawal as mandated under the Water Resources Protection Act. The LQU reporting method has changed from paper forms to digital format. Large quantity users are now required to submit their annual water usage in the WVDEP's Electronic Submission System.

• Mine Pool Atlas

  The West Virginia Mine Pool Atlas project was a two-year study to evaluate abandoned coal mines as potential groundwater sources.

• State Rules and Other Related Documents

  State rules and other related documents related to the Water Resources Protection Act

• Water Resources Protection & Management Act Progress Reports

  Annual progress reports that have been presented to the Joint Legislative Oversight Commission

• Water Withdrawal Guidance Tool

  WVDEP has developed guidance and a tool to help individuals know when it is environmentally safe to withdraw water from a stream.

• West Virginia Water Laws, Water Regulations, and Water Rights

  Prepared by the WVDEP Office of Legal Services

• West Virginia Water Resources Management Plan

  Access reports from the Large Quantity User and Marcellus Shale Frac Water databases. Additionally, there are many other related datasets displayed for the West Virginia Water Plan Mapping Tool.