Pennsylvania Code › Title 25 - ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION › Part I - Department of Environmental Protection › Subpart C - Protection of Natural Resources › Article II - Water Resources › Chapter 93 - WATER QUALITY STANDARDS › DESIGNATED WATER USES AND WATER QUALITY CRITERIA › Section 93.9 - Designated water uses and water quality criteria

Current through Register Vol. 54, No. 28, July 13, 2024
(a) The tables in §§
												93.9a-93.9z display designated water
						uses and water quality criteria in addition to the water uses and criteria
						specified in Tables 2 and 3. Designated uses shall be protected in accordance
						with Chapters 95 and 96 (relating to wastewater treatment requirements; and
						water quality standards implementation) and any other applicable State and
						Federal laws and regulations. The tables also indicate specific exceptions to
						Tables 2 and 3 on a stream-by-stream or segment-by-segment basis by the words
						"add" or "delete" followed by the appropriate symbols described elsewhere in
						this chapter. The county column in §§
												93.9a-93.9z indicates the county in
						which the mouth of the stream or the downstream limit of the zone described for
						that entry is located. Abbreviations used in the Stream and the "Zone" columns
						are as follows:
FAS-Federal Aid Secondary Highway
I-Interstate Highway
LR-Pennsylvania Legislative Route
RM-River Mile; river miles are used to indicate the
						  distance from a point on the waterbody to its mouth and are based on the DEP's
						  River Mile Index
SR-Pennsylvania State Route
T-Township Road
UNT-Unnamed Tributaries
US-United States Federal Route
(b) When appropriate, "Exceptions to Specific
						Criteria" provide reference to the Delaware River Basin Commission (DRBC) water
						quality regulations, Orsanco (Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission)
						pollution control standards and the Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement (GLWQA)
						which specify the criteria that apply if a water quality standard is more
						stringent than those in this title. The applicable criteria can be obtained
						from the following:
Delaware River Basin Commission
P. O. Box 7360
West Trenton, New Jersey 08628
(609) 883-9500
Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission
5735 Kellogg Ave.
Cincinnati, Ohio 45228
(513) 231-7719
GLWQA: International Joint Commission
Great Lakes Regional Office
100 Ouellette Ave., 8th Floor
Windsor Ontario, Canada N9A 6T3
(519) 257-6700
(c) With respect to hydrological order, the
						numbers appearing on the left-hand column of the drainage lists represent
						stream entries to aid in identifying hydrological order: 1 identifies the most
						downstream hydrologic order; 2 is triburary to 1; 3 is tributary to 2, and so
						on.
(d) An overview appears as
						follows:
Delaware River Basin
§ 93.9a.
Drainage List
								  A.
PA-NY State Border to Lackawaxen River.
§ 93.9b.
Drainage List
								  B.
Lackawaxen River Basin.
§ 93.9c.
Drainage List
								  C.
Lackawaxen River to Lehigh River.
§ 93.9d.
Drainage List
								  D.
Lehigh River Basin.
§ 93.9e.
Drainage List
								  E.
Lehigh River to Schuylkill River.
§ 93.9f.
Drainage List
								  F.
Schuylkill River Basin.
§ 93.9g.
Drainage List
								  G.
Schuylkill River to PA-DE State Border.
Susquehanna River
								  Basin
§ 93.9h.
Drainage List
								  H.
Tioga River Basin.
§ 93.9i.
Drainage List
								  I.
PA-NY State Border to Lackawanna River.
§ 93.9j.
Drainage List
								  J.
Lackawanna River Basin.
§ 93.9k.
Drainage List
								  K.
Lackawanna River to West Branch.
§ 93.9l.
Drainage List
								  L.
West Branch Susquehanna River Basin.
§ 93.9m.
Drainage List
								  M.
West Branch to Juniata River.
§ 93.9n.
Drainage List
								  N.
Juniata River Basin.
§ 93.9o.
Drainage List
								  O.
Juniata River to PA-MD State Border.
Ohio River Basin
§ 93.9p.
Drainage List
								  P.
Allegheny River Basin, PA-NY State Border to Tunungwant Creek.
§ 93.9q.
Drainage List
								  Q.
Allegheny River Basin, Tunungwant Creek to Clarion River.
§ 93.9r.
Drainage List
								  R.
Clarion River Basin.
§ 93.9s.
Drainage List
								  S.
Allegheny River Basin, Clarion River to Kiskiminetas River.
§ 93.9t.
Drainage List
								  T.
Kiskiminetas River Basin.
§ 93.9u.
Drainage List
								  U.
Allegheny River Basin, Kiskiminetas River to Monongahela River.
§ 93.9v.
Drainage List
								  V.
Monongahela River Basin.
§ 93.9w.
Drainage List
								  W.
Confluence of Monongahela and Allegheny Rivers to PA-OH State
								  Border.
Lake Erie
§ 93.9x.
Drainage List
								  X.
Lake Erie Basin.
Genesee River Basin
§ 93.9y.
Drainage List
								  Y.
Genesee River Basin.
Potomac River Basin
§ 93.9z.
Drainage List
								  Z.
Potomac River Basin.
The provisions of this §
														93.9 amended under sections
							 5(b)(1) and 402 of The Clean Streams Law (35 P. S. §§
															691.5(b)(1) and
							 691.402); and section 1920-A
							 of The Administrative Code of 1929 (71 P. S. §
															510-20).
This section cited in 25 Pa. Code §
														71.64 (relating to small flow
							 treatment facilities); 25 Pa. Code §
														250.309 (relating to MSCs for
							 surface water); 25 Pa. Code §
														250.406 (relating to relationship
							 to surface water quality requirements); and 25 Pa. Code §
														269a.50 (relating to environmental
							 assessment considerations).
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