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| Southeast_Watershed_Research_Laboratory Branch of the USDA Agricultural Research Service (ARS) collecting water resource related data to monitor the environment as it is affected by land use. |
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| USGS_--_Water_Resources_of_the_United_States Home page for water resources information from the U.S. Geological Survey. Topics include ground water, surface water, water use, water quality, acid rain, toxic substances hydrology. |
| UW_Extension_water_&_natural_resources Information about water quality programs and related environmental concerns in Wisconsin. |
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Control Strategy (PCS). The strategy and accompanying regulations are designed to reduce the amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus entering the Indian River, Indian River Bay, Rehoboth Bay, the Little Assawoman Bay and their tributaries to the level required by the Total Maximum Daily Loads for these watersheds. The PCS includes many actions recommended by a diverse group of stakeholders, who worked together over the course of several years to meet the goal of improving water quality in the Inland Bays.
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Delaware's
rivers and bays need our help.
The Delaware
Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control has asked
teams of citizens to serve on Tributary
Action Teams that will develop strategies for reducing water
pollution.
Those
of us on the teams --- farmers, shop owners, teachers, students,
mothers, fathers, ordinary citizens --- need your help with this
big challenge.
The evidence
of water pollution is everywhere: fish and clam kills, the discovery
of the micro-organism Pfiesteria,
huge algae blooms that rob waters of life-giving oxygen, warnings
against swimming because of high bacteria levels.
You might
think these are just isolated problems --- but they are warning
signs of the much larger, much more complex problem of water pollution
throughout our waterways.
Click
on a basin to learn more
Finding
solutions is difficult because our waters are affected by the many
things we do on land, even miles from the bays. Activities such
as farming, lawn fertilizing, septic system use and poultry raising
allow nutrients, mainly nitrogen and phosphorus, to leach down into
our groundwater, and then into our waterways. Although "nutrients"
are a good thing if they are absorbed by growing plants, in excess
they set off a chain reaction of pollution: they foster runaway
algae blooms, which deplete oxygen, which kills fish. (This is a
simplified explanation, of course. For a more detailed discussion
about the pollution in our waters click
here.)
It's
hard to control the pollution that seeps into our waterways, because
the land area that drains into each river and bay --- called its
watershed --- is much larger than the water area itself.
Water
pollution is a tough, complex problem, but we have to tackle it
— not just in response to a 1997 federal court case that required
Delaware to set pollution limits, but to safeguard human and environmental
health.
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of our waterways depends on our efforts.
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