{"id":11894,"date":"2012-12-13T15:25:16","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:25:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=11894"},"modified":"2012-12-13T15:25:16","modified_gmt":"2012-12-13T21:25:16","slug":"after-years-of-delay-deq-submits-lake-thunderbird-pollution-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/12\/13\/after-years-of-delay-deq-submits-lake-thunderbird-pollution-study\/","title":{"rendered":"After Years Of Delay, DEQ Submits Lake Thunderbird Pollution Study"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11898\"  class=\"wp-caption module image right\" style=\"max-width: 300px;\"><a class=\"fancybox\" title=\"Lake Thunderbird is Norman's main source of drinking water, and classified as 'impaired' by the EPA.\" href=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/LakeT-Bird.jpg\" rel=\"\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-11898\" title=\"LakeT-Bird\" src=\"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/files\/2012\/12\/LakeT-Bird-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-media-credit\">sasha55068 \/ flickr.com<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lake Thunderbird is Norman&#39;s main source of drinking water, and classified as &#39;impaired&#39; by the EPA.<\/p>\n<\/div><p>Lake Thunderbird, the main drinking water source for Norman, is\u00a0classified as &#8220;impaired&#8221; by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.<\/p><p>So, the state Department of Environmental Quality\u00a0is required to submit a report on how polluted Thunderbird can be while still meeting EPA standards, known as &#8216;total maximum daily loads.&#8217;<\/p><p>But as <em>The Norman Transcript<\/em>&#8216;s Joy Hampton <a title=\"Transcript Story\" href=\"http:\/\/normantranscript.com\/headlines\/x1839366643\/Water-study-submitted\" target=\"_blank\">reports<\/a>,\u00a0it took several years and a lawsuit by the conservancy district in charge of the lake to get DEQ to comply.<\/p><p><!--more--><\/p><p>From\u00a0<em>The Norman Transcript<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;They (DEQ) had delayed the TMDL a number of times,&#8221; Central Oklahoma Master Conservancy District Manager Randy Worden said. &#8220;The district initially filed against the DEQ back in &#8217;07, and that was to make DEQ perform a TMDL on Little River and Lake Thunderbird.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>But DEQ couldn&#8217;t meet the time restraints.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The court ordered that done by April 2010 \u2014 it was supposed to be completed. DEQ didn&#8217;t even start by then.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote><p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lake Thunderbird, the main drinking water source for Norman, is\u00a0classified as &#8220;impaired&#8221; by the federal Environmental Protection Agency.So, the state Department of Environmental Quality\u00a0is required to submit a report on how polluted Thunderbird can be while still meeting EPA standards, known as &#8216;total maximum daily loads.&#8217;But as The Norman Transcript&#8216;s Joy Hampton reports,\u00a0it took several [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42,"featured_media":11898,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[491,16],"tags":[494,495,427],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/42"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11894"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11929,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11894\/revisions\/11929"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11898"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}