A comment... almost everything Arkansas does to protect water is required by the Feds through the EPA and the Clean Water Act. In fact, the EPA has delegated many of their programs, including stormwater regulation, to Arkansas. From what I hear, the relationship could use some work.
Point source pollution (stuff coming out of a pipe) has been regulated for some time, but "non-point source pollution" (runoff) has no teeth. All the programs are "studies" and planning for education and encouragement of voluntary actions. I support that approach, however, there should be some minimum base regulation and enforcement.
Gene
The Association of State and Interstate Water Pollution Control Administrators has just released the final version of a document entitled "Call for Change-Water Quality Improvements for the 21st Century."
The document addresses the need to improve the working relationship between EPA and the states as well as more specific programmatic issues. It looks like we have some similar ideas. The document can be found here:
http://www.asiwpca.org/home/cfc.htm
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