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WaterNews for December 9, 2004Benjamin Grumbles WaterNews is a weekly on-line publication that announces publications, policies, and activities of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Water. In This Week’s WaterNews:1. Great Lakes Regional CollaborationEPA Administrator Michael Leavitt, Benjamin H. Grumbles, Acting Assistant Administrator for Water, along with dozens of government officials, and Tribal representatives met to sign the Great Lakes Declaration, an agreement to develop a strategy to further protect and restore the Great Lakes on Dec. 3, in Chicago. In attendance were members of President Bush’s cabinet, members of congress, state senators and representatives, and Great Lakes governors, Tribes, and mayors. The event was attended by approximately 400 people. For further information visit www.epa.gov. 2. EPA Updates Information on SedimentsEPA is releasing an updated Report to Congress on National Sediment Quality that assesses and describes the quality of aquatic sediments in rivers, lakes, oceans and estuary bottoms in the United States from 1980 to 1999. This report is an update to the 1997 National Sediment Quality Survey that also assesses changes in sediment contamination over time where data is available. EPA evaluated sediment contaminant data from previously published documents at 19,398 sampling stations and found either a decrease or no change in sediment contamination on a regional level. This report is intended only to be an inventory of sediment sampling since the samples were not taken uniformly, were complied by different groups and do not cover the entire country. The data in the report cannot be used to determine trends in areas of the country where data is absent. To help manage localized problems of contaminated sediment, EPA is working with other Federal agencies and State and local authorities to reduce the sources, abate contamination problems, manage dredged sediments, and develop scientifically sound management tools. General information about sediments and the report entitled “The Incidence and Severity of Sediment Contamination in Surface Waters of the United States: National Sediment Quality Survey, Second Edition” are available at: http://www.epa.gov/waterscience/cs . Subscribe to WaterNewsPlease forward this message to your friends and colleagues who share an interest in water-related issues and would like to hear from EPA's Office of Water. To subscribe to the WaterNews listserv: Send an email message, leave the subject line blank, and address it to: In the body of the message write: Subscribe WaterNews firstname lastname (Please leave one blank space between each word, do not include any other message, and use your actual name- i.e. Subscribe WaterNews Robert Jones) A welcome message will appear in your email box once you are officially subscribed.
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