The Clean Water Act: A Key Tool for Watershed Protection Advocacy Training for Citizen and Stakeholders
The Clean Water Act: A Key Tool for Watershed Protection
Advocacy Training for Citizen and Stakeholders
On January 30th, 2010, the Arlington Echo Outdoor Education Center hosted an advocacy training session for citizens and stakeholders on using the Clean Water Act as a key tool for watershed protection. The course was intended to teach people how to communicate using the legal and regulatory language that government can't ignore. The hope was to help people better defend their rivers, creeks, streams and bays.
Topics discussed include:
- Water Quality Standards
- How Water Quality Standards constrain allowable discharge
- How antidegradation constrains allowable discharge
- How water body impairments are identified
- How water body impairments constrain allowable discharge
- How TMDLs constrain allowable discharge
- What TMDLs mean for watershed restoration
- How point sources receive Clean Water Act permits to discharge
- The difference between individual and general discharge permits
- How permittee compliance is monitored and enforced
The course was taught by Bill Painter, a nationally recognized expert from the EPA who specializes in the Clean Water Act.
Issue(s):
Enforcement
Issue(s):
Impaired Waters (TMDL)
Issue(s):
Pollutants (toxins, pharmaceuticals, etc.)
Issue(s):
Runoff
Issue(s):
Water Quality Standards