Anchor QEA provides water quality services for freshwater, estuarine, and marine systems in a variety of regulatory frameworks.  This includes expertise with water quality issues in a variety of areas from relatively pristine or undeveloped watersheds to developed areas and industrial discharges.

Anchor QEA provides the following water quality services:

• Water quality standards review, toxicological studies, and site-specific criteria development
  
• Water quality monitoring in streams, rivers, lakes, estuaries, discharges, and marine waters
  
• Dredge and disposal water quality monitoring, assessment, and modeling
  
• National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) Industrial, Municipal, and Stormwater Permit support
  
• Clean Water Act compliance analysis
  
• Total maximum daily load (TMDL) analysis and review
  
• Industrial and municipal outfall and intake siting
  
• Watershed plans, investigations, and modeling
  
• Stormwater Pollution Prevention Planning
  
• Eutrophication assessment and modeling
  
• Sediment fate and transport modeling
  
• Aquatic risk assessments
  
• Biological monitoring and criteria interpretation

Project Highlights:
River Water Quality Study
Water Quality Model of the Three Rivers System
Fecal Coliform TMDLs in Shellfish Waters of South Carolina

For more information on our water quality services please contact Carl Stivers at 509-888-2070 or Jim Rhea at 315-453-9009, or email us at info@anchorqea.com.