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WaterNews for February 25, 1999WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water.
Inside this week's WaterNews:
1) EPA to Study Mercury Air Emission ImpactsEPA will soon begin a $400,000 pilot project in the Florida Everglades and Wisconsin to investigate the best methods for understanding and reducing mercury air emissions that may contaminate lakes, rivers and other waterbodies nationwide. Many states have identified mercury as a major cause of water quality problems. Mercury, emitted into the air by activities such as burning waste and fossil fuel, is a toxic pollutant that can cause health effects in humans and other mammals, with young children being at greatest risk. This project will help states develop Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) for waterbodies contaminated by mercury. TMDLs are a key requirement of the Clean Water Act, whereby a State identifies specific waterbodies that do not meet water quality standards and establishes specific pollution reduction targets for meeting those standards.For further information, contact Randy Waite at 919-541-5447 (waite.randy@epa.gov), or Ruth Chemerys at 202-260-9038 (chemerys.ruth@epa.gov). For general information on TMDLs and EPA's air quality programs, visit http://www.epa.gov/owow/tmdl/index.html or http://www.epa.gov/oar/oaqps/ on the Internet.
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