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Creek were not address by the current TMDL. The DEQ included recommendations for <br />monitoring of Amazon Creek in the recently approved Willamette Basin TMDL: Upper <br />Willamette Subbasin as follows: <br />"ODEQ recommends further monitoring of arsenic and lead in the water column. and <br />sediment, along with stream flow measurements river a period of at least one-year. <br />These data will provide the basis for a source assessment and load allocation <br />development. " {ODEQ -Willamette Basin TMDL: Upper Willamette Subbasin, <br />September 2006, p. 10-7). <br />Eugene's Municipal Stormwater Discharge Permit <br />On March 2, 2004, DEQ issued the City of Eugene a new National Pollution Discharge <br />Elimination .System (htPDES} permit for its municipal stormwater system. The City of <br />Eugene will be required to reduce certain. pollutants to ultimately achieve compliance <br />with water. quality standards.. Permit conditions in the City's 2004 NPDES permit are <br />intended to ensure that the City will undertake actions to begin addressing specific <br />pollutants of concern in the short-term; in advance of completion of TMDLs if they are <br />not currently established. <br />City of Eugene 2004 NPDES permit, Schedule D, section 2(e), (p. 10) states: <br />303(d) Listed Pollutants <br />The requirements of this section apply to receiving waters without established TMDL <br />wasteload allocations. The permittee must qualitatively review the pollutants that are on <br />the 2002 3.03(d) list that are relevant to the permittee's MS4 discharges. This review and <br />corresponding summary of proposed actions must be incorporated into the, second year <br />.annual report. ,The review and summary must accomplish the following: <br />i) Determine whether there is a reasonable .likelihood for'storm water from the <br />MS4 to cause. or contribute to water quality degradation of receiving waters <br />through the discharge of pollutants on the 2002 303(d) list. Provide rational <br />for the conclusion, including the results of an evaluation. <br />ii) If the discharges from the MS4 contribute to specific pollutants, determine <br />and describe the relationship between the 303(d) list pollutant and the MS4 <br />.discharges. <br />iii) Determine whether the BMPs in the existing SWMP are effective to address <br />the 303(d) pollutants. If not, describe how the plan could be adapted to more <br />appropriately address these pollutants. A summary of the rationale for-this <br />determination must also be included in the report. <br />If sufficient information is not available to make the determination required above, the <br />permittee must compile pertinent information necessary to adequately complete these <br />determinations. This additional information must be submitted with the third year annual <br />report. <br />