1. Illinois alternative funding strategies

2. Issues Difficulties with nutrient standard development
Increasing reliance on watershed groups to address tmdls (adaptive management)
Water quality standards of concern: Do and narrative offensive condition (nuisance algae and plant growth)

3. Dupage River Salt Creek Workgroup (DRSCW)
20 major POTWs, ms4s and local stakeholders
Suburban, county-sized
Initially formed to address do and chlorides
Aiming at dam removal/mods, stream restoration to get to ‘fishable’ biology
Science shows nutrients lower priority

4. Drscw ‘trading’ NPDES permitting challenges
State nutrient loss reduction strategy and gulf hypoxia goals
Local stream issues with do and ‘offensive conditions’
Pressure to apply phosphorus treatment limits in potw permits
Negotiated POTW permit provisions
Extend p treatment compliance schedule
Participate in stream/dam projects funding
Study watershed nutrients

5. DRscw nutrient studies
Non-point (urban) sources
Point to point trading
Stressor/response evaluation and local standard applicability
Other projects: pool elimination with dam removal/modification, riffle and pool construction, channel restoration, streambank erosion protection, habitat feature improvements (instream and riparian), etc
Plan development to address do and offensive condition impairments, keeping ‘fishable’ goal in view

6. Blue sky trading concept
Delay point-source reductions in lieu of higher priority watershed improvements
Dedicate nutrient treatment costs to highest priority restoration projects to move more rapidly towards fishable goals
Incidental ‘nutrient’ reductions, until nutrients express as stressors in local watershed

7. Applicability across illinois
POTW NPDES Permits including numeric p limits and compliance schedules
Where local nutrient issues are apparent, Permits require nutrient assessment reduction plans
Plans to address local do and offensive condition impairments
Plans to include nutrient reductions (point and non-point) or other measures
Plans can include trading provisions to help meet goals