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Water 4A: Drinking Water 1974: Safe Drinking Water Act main federal law for drinking water quality health standards for all public water systems 1996 amendments Consumer Confidence Reports science, risk-based standard setting What a dump 1899: Rivers and Harbors Act need permit to dump into navigable waters 1972: Ocean Dumping Act need permit to dump no WMD materials 1988: amended Ocean Dumping Act no medical wastes Burn on river, burn on 1969: Cuyahoga River catches fire Chocolate-brown, oily, bubbling with gases, it oozes rather than flows It is literally a fire hazard 1973: EPA conducts first national water quality inventory Burn on river, burn on Late 19th-early 20th C: rivers often burned 1936, 1949, 1951, 1952: Cuyahoga fires 1950s-60s: state environmental laws 1966: Water pollution laws in every state 1968: $100M for Cleveland cleanup The Fox, et al. 1969: James Phillips finds dying ducks on Fox River plugs sewer pipe later dumps sewage in company reception area 1975: Abbey writes Gang Monkeywrench 1980: Earth First! 1992: Earth Liberation Front Try not to get wasted 1948: Federal Water Pollution Control Act 1972: FWPCA amendments EPA given inspection, monitoring powers eliminate point source pollution by 1985 interim quality by 1983 best-available tech Try not to get wasted 1977: Clean Water Act amends FWPCA to eliminate water pollution by 1985 35-45,000 industrial and public facilities who dump directly into waterways 12,000 industrial facilities who dump into public water systems prevents dumping of 700 billion lbs per year What s the point? The point 1987: CWA amended Section 319 Nonpoint Source Management Program 1994, 1997, 2002: Successes and Recommendations 2003: ~40% of rivers, lakes, wetlands below EPA standards Wetlands Interfaces of terrestrial ecosystems and aquatic systems ... different from each, highly dependent on both Mitsch and Gosselink, 1986 1998-2003: Transport Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21) restoration, mitigation of wetland harm

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