HSC 4201 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Environmental Health, Maximum Contaminant Level, Nonpoint Source Pollution
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Surface water and drinking water are regulated by two important laws : the clean water act, the safe drinking water act. The clean water act (cwa: growing public concern over the pollution of surface water sources led to enactment of the federal water pollution control act amendments of 1972 and 1977 became the. Is to restore and maintain the chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the waters in the us so that they can support the protection and propagation of fish, shellfish, and wildlife and recreating in and on the water. I(cid:374) the early years of the cwa"s i(cid:373)ple(cid:373)e(cid:374)tatio(cid:374), the age(cid:374)cy"s efforts focused o(cid:374) regulating discharges from traditional point source facilities, such as. Cwa made it unlawful for any person to discharge any pollutant from a point source into navigable waters without a permit. Not much attention was paid to non-point source runoff and implemented either voluntary or regulatory programs to curb this problem.
