The Clear Water Act

The Clear water Act

IP 5

Environmental Science

Danette Burnette

Laura Stepp

Abstract

We are going to be talking about the clear water law and how it came about. We also going to talk about when it got passed and how long it took to passed it. We will also be talking about the environmental side of it.

Clear Water Act

The Clean Water act (CWA) was passed in 1948 and regulates the discharge and treatment of wastewater (EPA, 2012). The CWA’s main focus is to eliminate high concentrations of pollutants in waterways However, it does not directly apply to groundwater pollution, which is more aptly covered by the safe Drinking Water Act and Superfund act (EPA 2012).

The CWA covers the pollution in the water and out of the water it has a permit to regulate the points that include the government and the agricultural systems. The CWA has six provisions and the first one is he research programs and getting authorizes grants for the programs to be funded. The second is grants for construction of treatment works, which is used to assist municipalities in creating or expanding sewage treatment plants (EPA, 2012).

The third one is provision is permits and licenses that is a state requirement and it would be discharge if the permits are not valid and up to standards. There is a policy that is called whistleblower they protect the people from getting hurt or sued. The fourth one is state pollution control funds (EPA, 2012).

The CWA was brought about to help preventing the dumping and filling from the lakes and rivers. It was firs called Federal Water Pollution Control Act but they rewrote the law in 1972 and rename it Clean Water act. Once people saw the program they recognized the great benefits it has on it and it had new ways to create the new act to where no one have every been and meet all the water quality standards in a particular standards in all lakes dischargers were expected to head to even more strict individually crafted permit limitations