H20 limits; Report: Lakes initiative ignores some pollution.(water pollution control programs)(Brief Article)
Waste News, September, 2005 by Geiselman, Bruce
Byline: Bruce Geiselman The Great Lakes Initiative, a collaborative effort between the federal government and eight Great Lakes states, has limited potential to improve water quality. That's according to a new report released by the U.S. Government Accountability Office, an investigative arm of Congress.
The decade-old initiative focuses on regulated point sources of pollution while largely ignoring agricultural runoff, air deposition and other nonpoint sources. In addition, states have flexible implementation procedures, allowing them to grant variances to facilities, which further reduces the program's effectiveness, according to the GAO. The manner in which Wisconsin has adopted the program also poses problems, because it is not...
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