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Usepa Releases Water Transfer Rule
Author(s) -
Pontius Fred
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
journal ‐ american water works association
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.466
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1551-8833
pISSN - 0003-150X
DOI - 10.1002/j.1551-8833.2008.tb09668.x
Subject(s) - pollutant , clean water act , agency (philosophy) , water body , environmental science , surface water , water transfer , water pollutants , environmental engineering , water resource management , environmental protection , water quality , environmental planning , environmental chemistry , chemistry , ecology , philosophy , organic chemistry , epistemology , biology
Recently, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) published a regulation that clarifies when a discharge permit is required under the Clean Water Act (CWA) for trans‐basin water transfers. This article discusses the question of whether a National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit is required because the movement of surface water from one basin to another to serve municipal, agricultural, and commercial needs may also result in the movement of pollutants from one water body to another.