What is a TMDL? 
 
     DEQ's definition is the term that represents the total pollutant a
        waterbody can assimilate and still meet standards.
 

  Looney Creek was listed as impaired on Virginia's 1998 303(d) Total Maximum Daily Load Priority List and Report
  and 2002  303(d) Report on Impaired Waters.

 The impaired segment is 2.48 miles in length.  The impairment begins at the confluence of Mill and Back Creek on Looney Creek and ends 2.48 miles downstream at the James River confluence.  EPA approved the TMDL for  the Looney Creek watershed on June 21, 2004. 

The Department of Conservation and Recreation is the lead agency, working to develop the Implementation Plan for the Looney Creek TMDL.   The Implementation Plan will be presented in a public forum to receive public comments in the Fall of 2007.  The  project will be funded with EPA 319 funding and is projected to begin in the Fall of 2008.

Additional information is available at the following websites:

            RoanokeValley Alleghany Regional Commission on the Looney Creek Project