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Annual Activities 2017
Annual Activities 2017
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Innovation at EPA
EPA frames innovation as critical to the protection of human health and the environment through initiatives such as sustainable practices, innovative research, prize competitions, innovation awards, partnerships, and community activities.
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National Priorities: Occurrence and Implications of De Facto Water Reuse on Drinking Water Supplies Funding Opportunity
This funding opportunity is asking researchers to investigate the process of "de facto" water reuse that is resulting in potential risks to municipal drinking water systems.
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Innovative Ways to Destroy PFAS Challenge
This challenge asks solvers to submit detailed plans for a non-incineration way of destroying PFAS in concentrated aqueous film forming foam (AFFF), while creating the least amount of potentially harmful by-products.
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Training and Engagement Center
This page provides training resources for drinking water, wastewater, and storm water utilities, as well as water sector partners on how to build resilience and adapt to climate change impacts.
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Help From Above For Bay Waters
Actions being taken by a Hopewell, VA. plant as a result of a major EPA Clean Air Act settlement will significantly reduce nitrogen pollution that falls from the atmosphere and impacts the Chesapeake Bay and local waters
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Counties and EPA Team Up on Stormwater Rules
Two Virginia counties that created model programs for controlling municipal stormwater pollution following EPA enforcement actions are sharing their expertise with colleagues and regulators.
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Town Stems Major Water Losses With New Lines and Storage Tank
With the help of EPA funding, the Town of Chapmanville in Logan County, WV, has a new drinking water storage tank and distribution lines to replace a system built in the late 1940s that was “leaking like a sieve” and posed a risk to public health.
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New Plant Tops Projections for Reducing Pollution to Bay, Local Waters
A new wastewater treatment plant in West Virginia, considered a key to meeting the state’s commitment to help restore the Chesapeake Bay, is exceeding expectations for pollution reduction.
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Martinsburg Plant Upgrade Helps Waters Near and Far
With key financial assistance from EPA, the City of Martinsburg, W.V., has revamped its wastewater treatment plant to achieve steep pollution reductions that will benefit local creeks and the Chesapeake Bay.
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Action Resolves Hundreds of Coal Companies’ Violations
A consent decree with a major coal company and its subsidiaries resolves Clean Water Act violations in five states and requires operational upgrades and other steps to ensure future compliance.
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Healthy Indoor Environments in Schools: Plans, Practices and Principles for Maintaining Healthy Learning Environment
A series of webinars to help promote healthy schools during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Green Retrofits to Bring Jobs, Stormwater Controls
Community-based public-private partnership fostered by EPA’s Mid-Atlantic Water Protection Division is underway in Prince George’s County, Maryland, to generate “faster, cheaper, greener” controls for stormwater and benefit the local economy and community.
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RiverSmart Washington Curbing Stormwater Pollution
With support from EPA, the District of Columbia Department of Energy and Environment (DOEE) is leading an effort to protect Rock Creek and other waters from stormwater pollution by installing and monitoring green infrastructure in two DC neighborhoods.
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Rain Garden Activity Blooming in District of Columbia
Rain gardens in downtown D.C. are sparking interest in additional green infrastructure.
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EPA, Amtrak Agreement Helps Ensure Drinking Water Safety on Trains
A revised agreement between EPA and Amtrak continues to help ensure that drinking water on Amtrak’s interstate passenger rail cars is protected from bacterial contamination.
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Urban Farm Harvests Community, Environmental Bounty
An urban farm with community and environmental benefits is sprouting in an underserved area of the nation’s capital.
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New Wastewater Plant Reduces Pollution in West Virginia
A new state-of-the-art wastewater treatment plant in Romney, West Virginia, has made a "dramatic improvement" in reducing pollution to local waters and the Chesapeake Bay.
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Water Reuse Project in Virginia Providing Multiple Benefits
More than 500 million gallons a year of treated wastewater that would otherwise be discharged into a tributary of the Chesapeake Bay are instead being put to beneficial reuse to cool a waste-to-energy plant and irrigate a golf course and ball fields.