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EPA's How's My Waterway app now has new features

Posted Wed, 2013/04/24 - 12:10pm by RCAP

EPA's app and website, How's My Waterway, helps you find information on the condition of your local waterways, what's being done to protect and restore those waterways, and what you can do to help.

And now, How's My Waterway lets people find out even more about their local waterways. The new features include search results color-coded by condition, local information on watersheds, a watershed-locator tool, and options to look up dischargers regulated by permits and individual runoff control projects for a specific waterway.

EPA launches revamped septic website

Posted Tue, 2012/09/25 - 11:46am by RCAP

Nearly one in four households in the U.S. depends on an individual septic system or small community cluster system to treat its wastewater. EPA has recently revamped its septic website to better serve homeowners, state and local officials, industry professionals, and its partner organizations. The website includes a suite of new case studies demonstrating what communities across the country are doing to effectively manage their decentralized wastewater infrastructure and find solutions to meet their own unique wastewater infrastructure needs.

New information about harmful algal blooms online

Posted Fri, 2012/08/17 - 9:34am by RCAP

EPA has published a new web page on harmful algal blooms to help inform states, tribal and local governments, other federal agencies, and the public about key issues regarding cyanobacteria, or blue-green algae, blooms in recreational waters and drinking water.

Harmful algal blooms cause fouling of beaches and shorelines, economic and aesthetic losses, taste and odor problems in drinking water, and direct risks to human, fish and animal health.