Complicated Operational Environment Sample Clauses

Complicated Operational Environment. ‌ As explained in detail later in the document, the Covered Parties are regulated entities4, not regulators, and only represent one piece of the overall operational environment within the

Complicated Operational Environment. As explained in detail later in the document, the Covered Parties are regulated entities4, not regulators, and only represent one piece of the overall operational environment within the Trinity River Basin. This fact complicates conservation efforts because the Covered Parties have limited control over the chemistry of the water within the river. From a water quality perspective, the Covered Parties discharge wastewater to the river system, but there also are inputs from other sources, such as agricultural and urban runoff, other municipal WWTPs, and flood releases from United States Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) reservoirs, which all combine into one “mixture” that is constantly changing over distance and time. Under low-flow conditions in effluent-dominated reaches, water chemistry is heavily dependent upon effluent quality (i.e., downstream of dischargers). However, under high-flow conditions, non-point runoff can dominate water quality. In both cases, the overall water chemistry results from the blending of multiple sources, each of varying quality and composition that varies temporarily and spatially. This fact makes teasing out the specific impacts of the Covered Parties’ operations extremely difficult, especially considering impacts to the species that can be both chronic and acute.