The Clean Water Act 20 years later / Robert W. Adler, Jessica C. Landman, and Diane M. Cameron.
1993
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Title
The Clean Water Act 20 years later / Robert W. Adler, Jessica C. Landman, and Diane M. Cameron.
Published
Washington, D.C. : Island Press, [1993]
Copyright
©1993
Call Number
TD223 .A4663 1993
ISBN
1559632666 (pbk. : alk. paper)
1559632658 (cloth : alk. paper)
1559632658 (cloth : alk. paper)
Description
xii, 320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
System Control No.
(OCoLC)28148363
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-305) and index.
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Clean Water Act twenty years later
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Table of Contents
Preface: Why a Book on the Clean Water Act?
Pt. I
A Clean Water Retrospective
1
Ch. 1The Need for Clean Water
5
The Impetus for the Clean Water Act
5
The Vision of the Clean Water Act
6
The Need to Meet the 1972 Goals
10
Ch. 2The State of Our Waters Twenty Years Later
13
Traditional Measures of Pollution and Water Quality
14
Human Health Still Threatened
29
Aquatic Species and Ecosystems in Jeopardy
58
Ch. 3The Economics of Clean Water
87
Economic Values of Water Resources
88
Economic Losses Due to Water Resource Degradation
96
Paying for Water Resource Protection
108
Pt. II
Assessing Clean Water Act Programs
117
Ch. 4The Need for Improved Standards, Monitoring, and Communication
119
Water Quality Standards
119
Inadequate Monitoring and Public Information
129
Ch. 5The Elusive Zero Discharge Goal
137
Regulatory Structure for Industry and Sewage Treatment Plants
137
National Treatment Standards Limited and Outdated
138
Permit Program Deficiencies
150
Enforcement Deficiencies
166
Ch. 6Virtually Nonexistent Poison Runoff Controls
171
A Primer on Poison Runoff
172
Runoff Mandates Abandoned or Poorly Implemented
183
Increased Emphasis on Runoff Programs in 1987
185
The New Coastal Runoff Program - Promising but Limited in Scope
191
Ch. 7Protection for Aquatic Resources and Ecosystems
199
State Antidegradation Programs
200
State Water Quality Certification
203
Efforts to Protect Waters from Dredging and Filling
205
Programs to Protect Lakes, Estuaries, Ocean Waters, and Rivers
216
Ch. 8A National Agenda for Clean Water
227
Honing Our Informational Tools
228
Closing the Gaps for Point Sources
232
Preventing Polluted Runoff
241
Protecting Aquatic Ecosystems and Watersheds
242
Funding Programs Adequately and Equitably
254
Notes
259
Acronyms
307
Index
311