Water Projects and Programs
American Heritage Rivers Initiative
provides help to communities to restore and revitalize waters and waterfronts,
integrating the economic, environmental and historic preservation programs
and services of federal agencies to benefit communities engaged in efforts
to protect their rivers.
Beach Watch Program
provides grants to state, tribal, interstate, and local agencies to establish
effective monitoring and public notification programs for beaches. The
first federal site to contain information about local beach closings and
conditions.
Clean Lakes Program
information about the quality of America's lakes and technical resources
for management of lakes.
Coastal and Ocean
Programs access to information on ocean discharges, ocean dumping,
marine debris efforts.
Drinking Water and Ground Water
Protection Programs - a collection of information about efforts to
educate and communicate about water issues.
Enviro$en$e - this site provides a
single repository for pollution prevention, compliance assurance, and
enforcement information and data bases.
Fish Consumption Advisories
- several resources that include all available information describing
state-, tribal-, and federally-issued fish consumption advisories in the
United States for the 50 states, the District of Columbia, four U.S. territories,
and the 12 Canadian provinces and territories.
Great Lakes National Program
- brings together Federal, state, tribal, local, and industry partners
in an integrated, ecosystem approach to protect, maintain, and restore
the chemical, biological, and physical integrity of the Great Lakes.
Mobile Sources - carries out
a broad range of activities to reduce pollutants emitted from motor vehicles,
marine vehicles (boats) and their fuels.
National Estuary Program - information
about this effort to protect and restore the health of estuaries while
supporting economic and recreational activities.
Nonpoint Source Pollution
Control - access information about polluted runoff and exchange information
about methods for reducing the effects of this environmental issue.
Oil Spill Program - information
about the U.S. EPA's program for preventing, preparing for, and responding
to oil spills that occur in and around inland waters of the United States.
Pollutant Load Allocation
(Total Maximum Daily Loads) - provides information on EPA's Total
Maximum Daily Load (TMDL) Program under section 303(d) of the Clean Water
Act (CWA).
Superfund Information -
locates, investigates and cleans up the worst hazardous waste sites throughout
the United States.
Toxic Release Inventory - the
source of information about toxic chemicals that are being used, manufactured,
transported, or released into the environment.
Volunteer Monitoring
Program - addresses methods and tools to monitor, assess, and report
on the health of America's water resources, and software and automated
information systems to manage monitoring data.
Wastewater Management - access
a range of programs contributing to the well-being of our nation's waters
and watersheds.
Water Efficiency -
EPA's water efficiency program is currently focusing
on creating a market enhancement program for water efficient products.
This site also provides a wide variety of information on other water
efficiency topics, publications (many in down-loadable format), and links
to other very useful water efficiency web sites.
Water Quality Standards, Criteria,
and Methods - this program is responsible for developing sound, scientifically
defensible standards, criteria, advisories, guidelines, limitations and
standards guidelines for the Office of Water.
Watershed Information Network -
A road map to information services for protecting and restoring water
resources. This site includes the Watershed Atlas, a catalog of geo-spatial
displays and analyses of information and data important for watershed
protection and restoration.
Watershed Management
- this program encourages solutions to water quality and ecosystem problems
at the watershed level rather than at the individual waterbody or discharger
level.
Wetlands Program - encourages
and enables others to act effectively in protecting and restoring the
nation's wetlands and associated ecosystems.
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