UNITED STATES ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AGENCY

WASHINGTON, DC 20460

OFFICE OF WATER

MEMORANDUM

SUBJECT: References in the docket (EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880)

FROM: Rose Kwok, Wetlands Division

TO: Water Docket

EPA is hereby incorporating into the docket for EPA-HQ-OW-2011-0880 the following widely 

available publications: 

American Society of Civil Engineers, Task Committee on Hydrology Handbook. 1996

Hydrology Handbook. ASCE Publications.

Association of State Dam Safety Officials. “Introduction to Dams.” 

http://www.damsafety.org/news/?p=e4cda171-b510-4a91-aa30-067140346bb2 (Note: the 

URL has changed from that cited in the proposed rule preamble.) 

Baron, J. S., N. L. Poff, P. L. Angermeier, C. N. Dahm, P. H. Gleick, N. G. Hairston, R. B. 

Jackson, C. A. Johnston, B. D. Richter, and A. D. Steinman. 2002. “Meeting Ecological 

and Societal Needs for Freshwater.” Ecological Applications 12:1247-1260.

Brady, N. C., and R. R. Weil. 2002. The Nature and Properties of Soils. 13th Edition. Prentice 

Hall, Upper Saddle River, NJ.

Brinson, M. M. 1993. A Hydrogeomorphic Classification for Wetlands. Technical Report WRPDE-4, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Waterways Experiment Station, Wetlands 

Research Program, Vicksburg, MS. http://el.erdc.usace.army.mil/elpubs/pdf/wrpde4.pdf

California Department of Water Resources, Division of Safety of Dams. “Chapter III: 

Embankment Design.” Guidelines for the Design and Construction of Small Embankment 

Dams. http://www.water.ca.gov/damsafety/docs/GuidelinesSmallDams.pdf. (Note: the 

URL has changed from that cited in the proposed rule preamble.)

Cook, B. J., and F. R. Hauer. 2007. “Effects of Hydrologic Connectivity on Water Chemistry, 

Soils, and Vegetation Structure and Function in an Intermontane Depressional Wetland 

Landscape.” Wetlands 27:719-738.
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Creed, I. F., S. E. Sanford, F. D. Beall, L. A. Molot, and P. J. Dillon. 2003. “Cryptic Wetlands: 

Integrating Hidden Wetlands in Regression Models of the Export of Dissolved Organic 

Carbon from Forested Landscapes.” Hydrological Processes 17:3629-3648.

Devito, K. J., A. R. Hill, and N. Roulet. 1996. “Groundwater-Surface Water Interactions in 

Headwater Forested Wetlands of the Canadian Shield.” Journal of Hydrology 181:127-

147.

Duncan, S. H., R. E. Bilby, J. W. Ward, and J. T. Heffner. 1987. “Transport of Road-Surface 

Sediment through Ephemeral Stream Channels. Water Resources Bulletin 23:113-119.

Dunnivant, F. M. and E. Anders. 2006. A Basic Introduction To Pollutant Fate and Transport: 

An Integrated Approach With Chemistry, Modeling, Risk Assessment, and Environmental 

Legislation. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Freeman, M. C., C. M. Pringle, and C. R. Jackson. 2007. “Hydrologic Connectivity and the 

Contribution of Stream Headwaters to Ecological Integrity at Regional Scales.” Journal 

of the American Water Resources Association 43:5-14.

Gamble, D. E., J. Grody, J. J. Mack, and M. Micacchion. 2007. An Ecological and Functional 

Assessment of Urban Wetlands in Central Ohio. Ohio EPA Technical Report WET/ 

2007-3B, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency, Wetland Ecology Group, Division of 

Surface Water, Columbus, OH.

http://www.epa.state.oh.us/portals/35/wetlands/l919reportvol_2_functionassessurbanwtld

.pdf.

International Atomic Energy Agency. “Investigating Leaks in Dams & Reservoirs.” 

http://www.iaea.org/technicalcooperation/documents/sheet20dr.pdf. (Note: the URL has 

changed from that cited in the proposed rule preamble.)

Kuenzler, E. J., P. J. Mulholland, L. A. Yarbro and L. A. Smock (1980). Distributions and 

budgets of carbon, phosphorus, iron and manganese in a floodplain swamp ecosystem. 

Chapel Hill, North Carolina, University of North Carolina.

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Lane, C. R., and E. D’Amico. 2010. “Calculating the Ecosystem Service of Water Storage in 

Isolated Wetlands using LiDAR in North Central Florida, USA.” Wetlands 30:967-977.

Leibowitz, S. G. 2003. Isolated Wetlands and Their Functions: An Ecological Perspective. 

Wetlands 23:517-531.

Leopold, L. B. 1994. A View of the River. Harvard University Press, Cambridge, MA.

Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. “Seepage Through Earth Dams.”

http://www.michigan.gov/deq/0,4561,7-135-3313_3684_3723-9536--,00.html. (Note: the 

URL has changed from that cited in the proposed rule preamble.) 

Montgomery, D. R. 1999. “Process Domains and the River Continuum.” Journal of the 

American Water Resources Association 35:397-410.

National Research Council. 1995. Wetlands: Characteristics and Boundaries Washington, D.C.: 

National Academy Press. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=4766. 
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Rabalais, N. N., R. E. Turner, and W. J. Wiseman. 2002. “Gulf of Mexico Hypoxia, a.k.a. ‘The 

Dead Zone.’” Annual Review of Ecology and Systematics 33:235-263.

Simenstad, C., J. Toft, H. Higgins, J. Cordell, M. Orr, P. Williams, L. Grimaldo, Z. Hymanson, 

and D. Reed. 1999. “Preliminary Results from the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta 

Breached Levee Wetland Study.” Interagency Ecological Program for the SacramentoSan Joaquin Estuary Newsletter 12(4):15-21. 

http://www.water.ca.gov/iep/newsletters/1999/1999fall.pdf#page=15. 

Tiner, R. W. 2003. “Geographically Isolated Wetlands of the United States.” Wetlands 23:494-

516.

U.S. Department of the Interior, Bureau of Reclamation, Upper Colorado Region. “Safety of 

Dams,” http://www.usbr.gov/uc/provo/progact/damsafety.html.

Vannote, R. L., G. W. Minshall, K. W. Cummins, J. R. Sedell, and C. E. Cushing. 1980. “The 

River Continuum Concept.” Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 37:130-

137.

Whigham, D. F., and T. E. Jordan. 2003. Isolated Wetlands and Water Quality. Wetlands 23:541-

549.

Wilcox, B. P., D. D. Dean, J. S. Jacob, and A. Sipocz. 2011. “Evidence of Surface Connectivity 

for Texas Gulf Coast Depressional Wetlands.” Wetlands 31:451-458.

Wigington, P. J., Jr., S. G. Leibowitz, R. L. Comeleo, and J. L. Ebersole. 2013. “Oregon 

Hydrologic Landscapes: A Classification Framework.” Journal of the American Water 

Resources Association 49(1):163-182.

Winter, T. C. 2001. “The Concept of Hydrologic Landscapes.” Journal of the American Water 

Resources Association 37:335-349.

Winter, T. C., and J. W. LaBaugh. 2003. “Hydrologic Considerations in Defining Isolated 

Wetlands.” Wetlands 23:532-540.

Wipfli, M. S., J. S. Richardson, and R. J. Naiman. 2007. “Ecological Linkages between 

Headwaters and Downstream Ecosystems: Transport of Organic Matter, Invertebrates, 

and Wood Down Headwater Channels.” Journal of the American Water Resources 

Association 43:72-85.

Wolock, D. M., T. C. Winter, and G. McMahon. 2004. “Delineation and Evaluation of 

Hydrologic-Landscape Regions in the United States Using Geographic Information 

System Tools and Multivariate Statistical Analyses.” Environmental Management

34:S71-S88.

Any person wishing to review these publications should contact Rose Kwok, Wetlands Division, Office 

of Wetlands, Oceans, and Waters, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Mail code 4502T, 1200 

Pennsylvania Avenue NW, Washington, DC 20460; telephone: 202-566-0657; fax: 202-566-1349; 

email: kwok.rose@epa.gov.