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Water – Our Most Precious Resource
Water is our most precious resource. It is vitally important that everyone work together to conserve our water supply. And, of course, saving water saves you money.
Homeowners can significantly decrease the amount of water used each day by following …
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What clean water infrastructure needs has the EPA reported?
EPA’s 1996 Needs Survey reported $139.5 billion in wastewater infrastructure needs based on eligible costs under the CWA. On March 18, 1999, however, EPA released preliminary, revised estimates that indicate $199.6 billion in wastewater needs over 20 years.
This revision …
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How have federal clean water requirements for local governments changed?
Initially, EPA required local governments with POTWs to construct and implement “secondary treatment,” which is defined as the best available control technology. This step was costly, but with significant levels of federal grant funding, it resulted in a major nationwide …
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Is clean water infrastructure a good investment?
Clean water infrastructure is a necessary public health and environmental investment, and a sound economic investment. Construction of wastewater facilities is among the highest generators of jobs for all infrastructure categories. Each $1 billion in sewer improvements generates over 57,000 …
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What are wet weather sources?
Generally, wet weather sources such as CSOS, SSOS, stormwater systems and nonpoint sources are episodic, short-term discharges generated by rainstorm events. CSOS, SSOs and storrnwater can be controlled by transport or treatment facilities, best management practices (BWs) or a combination …
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Does EPA regulate nonpoint sources?
The Clean Water Act does not authorize EPA to directly regulate nonpoint sources of pollution in rural or urban areas through the use of discharge permits. The regulation of nonpoint source pollution is left to state and local governments under …
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What are nonpoint sources of water pollution?
Nonpoint sources of water pollution, also called polluted runoff, result from rainfall that runs off the land and into waterbodies. This runoff can carry with it sediments, nutrients, bacteria, chemicals or metals. Nonpoint sources are not conveyed by a pipe …
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What does the term “publicly owned treatment works” include?
Under the federal Clean Water Act, POTWs are not just the wastewater treatment plants themselves. They include a wide array of other infrastructure necessary for collecting, transporting and treating wastewater containing domestic or sanitary sewage and sludge or biosolids resulting …
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What is the federal Clean Water Act?
Federal Water Pollution Control Act, establishes a national program to restore and maintain the quality of the nation’s waters. Point sources of pollution are regulated under the Act while state programs for nonpoint sources are subject to federal funding and …
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