Since late May, the NOAA Climate Prediction Center has predicted above average precipitation through the summer. As we get into the middle of July, hopefully these rains will soon begin to materialize ...

Prioritizing low-cost financing for municipal wastewater point source control—while incredibly important—has allowed the problem of nonpoint source pollution and polluted urban runoff to grow ...

The U.S. Supreme Court's decision to review lower court rulings on whether a permit is required under the federal Clean Water Act when pollutants originate from a point source but are carried to ...

Globally, non-point source pollution is an important source of water quality deterioration in rivers and lakes. A ditch-pond system, consisting of ditches and ponds, is considered to be similar to ...

When the lower court—the Ninth Circuit—held that the Act requires a Permit when pollutants are “fairly traceable” to a point source, it created a circuit split; the Fourth Circuit had ...

A nonpoint source management plan allows a state to be eligible for grants through the federal Clean Water Act that address nonpoint source pollution. Iowa drafted its first plan in 1990 and ...