Summary Resource Description, Upper Mississippi River System: Water quantity and quality

Summary Resource Description, Upper Mississippi River System: Water quantity and quality
Title Summary Resource Description, Upper Mississippi River System: Water quantity and quality PDF eBook
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Pages 286
Release 1981
Genre Inland navigation
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Summary Resource Description, Upper Mississippi River System: Executive summary

Summary Resource Description, Upper Mississippi River System: Executive summary
Title Summary Resource Description, Upper Mississippi River System: Executive summary PDF eBook
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Pages 54
Release 1981
Genre Inland navigation
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Resource Description of the Upper Mississippi River System

Resource Description of the Upper Mississippi River System
Title Resource Description of the Upper Mississippi River System PDF eBook
Author Vladimir Novotny
Publisher
Pages 180
Release 1981
Genre Agricultural pollution
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Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act

Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act
Title Mississippi River Water Quality and the Clean Water Act PDF eBook
Author National Research Council
Publisher National Academies Press
Pages 252
Release 2008-02-08
Genre Nature
ISBN 0309177812

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The Mississippi River is, in many ways, the nation's best known and most important river system. Mississippi River water quality is of paramount importance for sustaining the many uses of the river including drinking water, recreational and commercial activities, and support for the river's ecosystems and the environmental goods and services they provide. The Clean Water Act, passed by Congress in 1972, is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States, employing regulatory and nonregulatory measures designed to reduce direct pollutant discharges into waterways. The Clean Water Act has reduced much pollution in the Mississippi River from "point sources" such as industries and water treatment plants, but problems stemming from urban runoff, agriculture, and other "non-point sources" have proven more difficult to address. This book concludes that too little coordination among the 10 states along the river has left the Mississippi River an "orphan" from a water quality monitoring and assessment perspective. Stronger leadership from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is needed to address these problems. Specifically, the EPA should establish a water quality data-sharing system for the length of the river, and work with the states to establish and achieve water quality standards. The Mississippi River corridor states also should be more proactive and cooperative in their water quality programs. For this effort, the EPA and the Mississippi River states should draw upon the lengthy experience of federal-interstate cooperation in managing water quality in the Chesapeake Bay.

Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System

Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System
Title Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River System PDF eBook
Author Upper Mississippi River Basin Commission
Publisher
Pages 228
Release 1982
Genre Environmental impact analysis
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Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River Basin

Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River Basin
Title Comprehensive Master Plan for the Management of the Upper Mississippi River Basin PDF eBook
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Pages 200
Release 1982
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Summary Appraisals of the Nation's Ground-water Resources, Upper Mississippi Region

Summary Appraisals of the Nation's Ground-water Resources, Upper Mississippi Region
Title Summary Appraisals of the Nation's Ground-water Resources, Upper Mississippi Region PDF eBook
Author Richard M. Bloyd
Publisher
Pages 32
Release 1975
Genre Groundwater
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Additional title page description: Ground-water development and management opportunities in the region.