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The Bureau of Water Quality Planning (BWQP) is responsible for several water quality protection functions which include collecting and analyzing water data, developing standards for surface waters, publishing informational reports, providing water quality education and implementing programs to address surface water quality. The Bureau is also responsible for two certification programs. BWQP is divided into three branches: water quality standards, monitoring and nonpoint source pollution management.
October 2009 — Request for Quotes: Taxonomic Identification & Enumeration of Aquatic Macroinvertebrates The Bureau of Water Quality Planning collects aquatic macroinvertebrates on a statewide basis to assess the aquatic health of the state’s streams and rivers. The field work is performed using the “reach wide/composite” field protocols developed under U.S. EPA Western EMAP and U.S. EPA National Rivers
and Streams Assessment-Wadeable Streams (NRSA). We are currently seeking one laboratory to perform a 600 count taxonomic identification and enumeration for approximately 35-50 samples per year for a 3-year period. Preference will be given to those laboratories that historically have favorably performed
this service for the Nevada Division of Environmental Protection: Download the RFQ [ 221 Pages 1.22 MB ]
September 2009 — RFP Grant Assistance The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection (NDEP) Nonpoint Source Program has more than $1 million in federal funding available to provide grant assistance for projects that prevent or control nonpoint source water pollution, the leading cause of water quality impairment in Nevada. [Deadline is October 14, 2009]
August 2009 — Water Quality Planning GIS Information Center - Nevada 2006 303d/305b Assessed Waters. Provided in the GIS information center are shapefile coverages of the 2006 assessed waters in Nevada: 1) Lakes and Reservoirs, 2) Rivers and Streams, and 3) waters with TMDL's.
March 2009 — Nevada's 2008 - 2010 303(d) Impaired Waters List: The Nevada Division of Environmental Protection and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have agreed that Nevada need not develop a 2008 303(d) Impaired waters list, but can combine the 2008 and 2010 303(d) Impaired Waters Lists. A draft 2008 - 2010 303(d) Impaired Waters List should be available for review by the spring of 2010.
March 2009 — Nevada's 2006 303(d) Impaired Waters List
March 2008 — Join our electronic email list 
 BWQP's Long Range Plan — 2006-2011 [23 Pages]
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