Nutrient loads from the Mississippi & Atchafalaya River Basin have created a hypoxic zone in the Gulf of Mexico. States within the basin determined in The Gulf Hypoxia Action Plan 2008 (Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force, 2008) to develop strategies to reduce nutrient loads and develop reasonable and appropriate watershed-specific plans to further manage nutrients. The Kentucky Division of Water developed a Nutrient Reduction Strategy to assist in this state and federal initiative to reduce nutrient loading to the basin and the size of the hypoxic zone. A key element of this strategy is to monitor nutrient concentrations and loads over time to identify trends and track whether reduction strategies are effective. While monitoring is ongoing, analysis for trends is undertaken every few years. The latest trend analysis of monitoring years 2006-2023 was completed in the 2024 Flow-Normalized Nutrient Loads in Kentucky study. Aspects of this update include: •Use of a different method for modeling loads – the Weighted Regressions on Time, Discharge, and Season (WRTDS). This method calculates flow-normalized loads to easily discern trends through the noise of fluctuating discharge. •Comparison of Kentucky trends with regional (Tennessee, Cumberland & Ohio Rivers) and national nutrient data. •Analysis of contributing factors such as ammonia, nitrate and atmospheric deposition on Total Nitrogen trends. •Comparison of Kentucky’s percent reductions with the 2025 Hypoxia Task Force Goals.