| | 305(b) Report to Congress |
| | The 303(d) List of Waters reports on streams and lakes identified as impaired for one or more pollutants and do not meet one or more water quality standards. |
| | Kentucky has a total of 38 approved Total Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) reports. |
| | This handbook is now available to help accelerate watershed protection programs. It describes innovative approaches developed and conducted by the 28 national estuary programs, which are community-based watershed management organizations that restore and protect coastal watersheds. Topics include starting a program, identifying problems and solutions and developing plans of action. |
| | Glossary for the Watershed Management Framework
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| | EPA released the "National Management Measures to Control Nonpoint Source Pollution from Urban Areas" to help local governments and other entities protect water resources from daily activities, urban development and storm water runoff. The guidance will also help municipalities and other regulated entities implement stormwater programs. |
| | A guide to watershed management to help various organizations develop and implement watershed plans. The handbook is aimed toward communities, watershed groups, and local, state, tribal and federal environmental agencies. A free copy is available by calling 800-490-9198 or e-mailing nscep@bps-lmit.com; reference EPA document number EPA 841-B-08-002.
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| | This document describes how to access the EPA Permit Compliance System (PCS) database to obtain discharge information regarding facilities holding Kentucky Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (KPDES) permits. |
| | Past land-use activity, particularly agriculture, may result in long-term modifications to and reductions in aquatic diversity, regardless of reforestation of riparian zones. Preservation of habitat fragments may not be sufficient to maintain natural diversity in streams. |
| | The Center for Watershed Protection offers a manual series with practical, comprehensive information on watershed restoration techniques. The manuals introduce an integrated framework for urban watershed restoration, outline effective techniques for assessing urban watersheds and provide a comprehensive review of watershed restoration techniques. Each manual includes color photos, graphics and data, detailed field methods, practice specifications, costs, applicability and tips on implementation.
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| | Regionalization of wastewater management minimizes the number of wastewater discharges into state waters. This is accomplished through prevention of new discharges when possible, connection to existing facilities or the connection of one or more existing facilities into a new or existing regional treatment facility. Find out more about this topic and what you can do to help promote sound wastewater management in Kentucky. |
| | Some or all of the key lessons learned by the leaders of the Chesapeake Bay cleanup effort may be transferable to the restoration efforts of other large-scale environmental management efforts.
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| | A guidance document describing EPA's recommendations for watershed-based permitting under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program. This approach is aimed at achieving new efficiencies and environmental results. The watershed approach to permitting provides a process for considering all stressors within a hydrologically defined drainage basin, rather than addressing individual pollutant sources on a discharge-by-discharge basis. |
| | Valerie Nelson, Ph.D., of the Coalition of Alternative Wastewater Treatment, provides an insightful and forward-thinking testimony to Congress on how we might address Kentucky's needs and do it in a way that is more environmentally sound, technologically feasible and lower in cost.
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