Water Industry Fighting EPA's Drinking Water Regulations
With few exceptions, most of the nation's drinking-water utilities are strongly opposed to many provisions of EPA's proposed regulations for reducing the levels...
Chicago Sanitary District Pioneers in Controlling Flooding, Water Pollution
Chicago's Metropolitan Sanitary District is a national leader in at least four areas: (1)Controlling overflows of combined sewers. Chicago's answer to this problem...
Treating Waste Streams: New Challenge to the Water-Treatment Industry
Increasingly, state and federal water pollution control agencies have been becoming more strict about pollution from drinking water treatment plants. Specifically, most water treatment...
EPA Launches Program to Control Hazardous Wastes
In January 1979, the federal Environmental Protection Agency will issue its long awaited guidelines on the control of hazardous wastes. These guidelines will propose a so-called manifest...
Can the U.S. Cope with Skyrocketing Coal Production�
Coal must become the nation's chief tool for increasing energy self-reliance. Coal is abundant. The technology to use it is available today. There is an existing production...
A Critical Appraisal of Some Proposed Changes to the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act
The amendments that will ultimately be made to the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act (PL 92-500), now being discussed by Congress, will be influenced by a number of things happening in...
Let's Consider Land Treatment, Not Land Disposal
The regulations that control operation and design of land treatment systems are discussed. A solution to control ground water pollution must consider all potential impacts. Pretreatment,...
Sewage Effluent Turned to Snow: Provides Storage, Removes Pollutant
Sewage effluent can be stored in an artificial snowpack as evidenced by research performed in 1974 by the Upper Yampa Water Conservancy District of Colorado. The three month long experiment...
Polyethylene Pipe Solutions to Sewer Outfalls
One of the primary concerns of the Chief of Naval Operations is to insure that environmental pollution standards are met in this country and abroad at those naval bases near oceans or...
PL 92-500 to Cost Metal Finishing Industry $45 Billion
The 1972 amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act will have far their greatest impact on the metal finishing industry. To meet the 1983 requirement of best available technology is...
Evolution of 208 Water-Quality Planning
In writing the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act Amendments, Congress realized water pollution from non-point sources was a serious problem and would be difficult for the federal government...
208: A Process for Water Quality Management
The Section 208 program is the key to the continuous management of the nation's water pollution clean-up efforts. In the past, regional approaches to water pollution abatement...
Designing More Reliable Waste Treatment Plants
In the past, many municipal waste treatment plants have not operated reliably. A 1969 Federal Water Pollution Control Administration Study, for instance, showed that 25% of 1500 plants...
Carpools: How Successful�
For a number of years, the Federal Highway Administration has been encouraging increased carpooling as one of the ways to increase the people- moving efficiency of urban highways. The...
US Water Cleanup Program Speeds Up�But Still Much Red Tape
Since Congress enacted the Federal Pollution Control Amendments (P.L. 92-500) in 1972, little progress has been made in cleaning up the nation's waters. In fact, public dollars...
Britain's Stevenage: Pathway Pioneer
There's been a boom in bike sales. Many new towns feature bike and pedestrian pathways. Many Americans are concerned about their health because they get too little exercise....
Will Industry Meet Water-Quality Goals�
What impact will the 1972 Water Pollution Control Act Amendments (PL 92-500) have on American industry? Able to cope with 1977 requirement to install best practicable technology (BPT)?...
Watershed Management
Proceedings of the Symposium conducted by the Committee on Watershed Management of the Irrigation and Drainage Division of the American Society of Civil Engineers, held at Utah State University,...
Public Works and Society
Proceedings of Public Works and Society, the 1972 Joint Conference held in Lake Buena Vista, Florida, November 14-18, 1972. Sponsored by The American Society of Civil Engineers and the...
Abstracts of Paper from Second National Symposium on Sanitary Engineering Research, Development and Design
Proceedings of the Second National Symposium on Sanitary Engineering, Research, Development, and Design held at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Sponsored by the American Society...
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