by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
Did you see my post last Tuesday? I ended that post with a list of the 7 most polluted bodies of water in the US, and I was surprised that I had to look a couple of them up…and I was sad to see several of the ones I knew on the list…but that is for another day....
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
The creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Clean Water Act (CWA) was prompted in part by the public outrage over the Ohio’s Cuyahoga River erupting into flames on 13 separate occasions from 1869-1969. A March 1970 Time Magazine article described...
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
I was listening to a recent episode of the Stormwater World Podcast in which host Ty Garmon was interviewing Barry Fagan, PE, PLS, Owner and Vice President of Fagan, LLC, where he was discussing that last year was the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Clean Water...
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
The Clean Water Act (CWA) of 1972 was a complete overhaul of the original Federal Water Pollution Control Act of 1948. That doesn’t tell much about it, except that water pollution has been a concern for a long time. The 1972 CWA did a lot of stuff: established a...
by Maryella Begley-Gamon, PE | Nov 7, 2024 | Blogs
Waters of the United States (WOTUS) is a threshold term in the Clean Water Act (CWA) and establishes the geographic scope of federal jurisdiction for the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) programs, including Water Quality Standards, TMDLs. WOTUS include the...
