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Water Quality and Pollution

Citizen’s Guide to Fighting Water Pollution in Georgia
This tool,created by Georgia Center for Law in the Public Interest, can help citizens achieve the Clean Water Act’s fundamental goal of protecting our water resources. It takes you step-by-step through the process of finding out what type of pollutants are being discharged into your watershed, by whom, whether they are harmful, and how to develop a strategy to reduce the amount of that pollution. Click here.

Clean Water Campaign
Downloadable brochures on septic tanks, pet waste, lawn care and more. Visit http://www.cleanwatercampaign.com/html/727.htm.

Erosion
View Georgia's Erosion and Sedimentation Act in pdf format. Click here.
For other erosion resources, click here.

Pollution Prevention
Georgia's Pollution Prevention Division provides information on proper disposal of household hazardous waste.

Pollution Scorecard
A pollution information site that allows you to type in your zip code. Visit http://www.scorecard.org/.

River Restoration
Restoring Rivers database at www.restoringrivers.org contains over 37,000 stream restoration projects throughout the United States, with concentrations in 7 regions of the country—California, Central US, Chesapeake Bay, Pacific Northwest, Southeast, Southwest, and Upper Midwest. Information on these projects was collected from 2002 to 2004 by a group of stream scientists. These data were used for a study to understand the current state of stream restoration in the United States.

Sanitary Sewer Overflows
http://www.dekalbcountysso.com

Septic Systems
Septic Information for homeowners
http://cfpub.epa.gov/owm/septic/homeowners.cfm

Southern Regional Water Program
Information on water quality in Georgia - http://srwqis.tamu.edu/states/georgia/default.aspx

Stormwater
Center for Watershed Protection has free downloadable resources on stormwater management at www.stormwatercenter.net.

TMDL's - Scroll down to "TMDL's"
http://gaepd.org/Documents/techguide_wpb.html#esp

TMDL Knowledgebase Clearinghouse http://www.tmdl.bse.vt.edu/site/knowledgebase/

Water Quality Control Act
Visit Upper Chattahoochee Riverkeeper's website to learn about the GA Water Quality Control Act.

Water Quality Standards
Clean Water Network's website offers a wealth of information on Water Quality Standards. Click here .

Water Quality in Georgia Fact Sheet Series
by Extension can be found at http://pubs.caes.uga.edu/caespubs/pubs/pubsubj.html#Water. The series includes fact sheets on Watershed Assessment in Georgia, Georgia's Water Quality Standards, and TMDLs.

Waterborne Disease Research
http://www.epa.gov/nheerl/articles/2006/waterborne_disease.html

Monitoring Data

EPD Monitoring Data
EPD can send you data electronically. Contact Kathy Methier at 404-675-1657 or email kathy_methier@mail.dnr.state.ga.us. Make your data request as specific as possible. If you want to narrow it down to counties within the basin or certain parameters, it will make the dataset more managable. They have data on basic chemical parameters, bacteria, and two kinds of metal samples.

USGS
Search by HUC. The data is coded and takes some deciphering, but they have quite a bit of historic and recent data. http://nwis.waterdata.usgs.gov/ga/nwis/qwdata. You can also access several of the USGS publications at http://ga.water.usgs.gov/.

EPD River Basin Plans
http://www.gaepd.org/Documents/river_basin_management.html

Colleges
Many colleges do monitoring and may be willing to share data with your group. Check ecology, biology, chemistry departments for data.

Georgia Power monitors the lakes where they operate facilities.

EPD Permitting, Compliance and Enforcement Phone: 404.362.2680

Georgia Adopt-A-Stream
Volunteer water quality monitoring data. 404-675-1636 www.georgiaadoptastream.org.

GREEN
Global Rivers Environmental Education Network GREEN is a school based water monitoring program.

EPA Storet
STORET (short for STOrage and RETrieval) is a repository for water quality, biological, and physical data and is used by state environmental agencies, EPA and other federal agencies, universities, private citizens, and many others. http://www.epa.gov/storet/index.html