Learn the Issues
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Module 4: Wastewater Utility Analytical Guide
Learn how o plan an approach to analyze samples when the wastewater utility and/or collection system is contaminated.
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Turning Main Street into a Green Street
With EPA assistance, a small community near Pittsburgh is turning its main street into a green street to control stormwater runoff that has caused flooding, sewer backups and combined sewer overflows.
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Drought Response and Recovery Guide Fact Sheet for Water Utilities
Helps utilities deal with drought emergencies.
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Planning for and Responding to Drinking Water Utility Contamination Threats and Incidents: Overview and Application
Overview of the Drinking Water Response Protocol Toolbox
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Module 4: Analytical Guide for Drinking Water Utilities
How to develop an analysis plan for an unknown contaminant in drinking water samples.
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Water Security Handbook: Planning for and Responding to Drinking Water Contamination Threats and Incidents
Helps utilities understand how to plan fr contamination emergencies that may impact the drinking water supply.
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Drinking Water Response Guidelines
This document provides forms that can be used in the field when responding to drinking water contamination events.
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Flood Resilience: A Basic Guide for Water and Wastewater Utilities
Guide to help utilities understand the threat of flooding
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Hazard Mitigation for Natural Disasters
assist drinking water and wastewater utilities in identifying and funding mitigation projects
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Handling Contaminated Water for Drinking Water and Wastewater Utilities
Tools and tips for handling contaminated water.
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Water and Wastewater Agency Response Networks (WARN) Exercise Facilitator Guide
practice with your WARN
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Webinar Certificate: Tools for Tidal Restriction Avoidance and Removal
Webinar Certificate: Tools for Tidal Restriction Avoidance and Removal
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Floating Wetland Islands Help Restore Large Pennsylvania Lake
One of Pennsylvania’s largest lakes has been removed from the list of impaired waters following years of EPA-funded work to control phosphorus pollution. One of the innovative actions taken to meet the goal was deployment of five floating wetland islands.
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Guide to retrospective case study data reports
Step by step guide to data reports
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Climate Adaptation and Sea Level Rise
EPA supports the development and maintenance of water utility infrastructure across the country. Included in this effort is helping the nation’s water utilities anticipate, plan for, and adapt to risks from flooding, sea level rise, and storm surge.
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Climate Adaptation and Water Management
EPA works with states, tribes, and local communities to ensure drinking water is safe and to restore and maintain oceans, watersheds, and their aquatic ecosystems.
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Smart Sectors Program: Best Practices in Permitting Profile
Smart Sectors profile about a streamlined permitting success story between South Carolina Department of Health and Environmental Control, US Army Corps of Engineers, EPA, non-governmental organizations, and a major aircraft manufacturer in Charleston, SC.
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Smart Sectors Best Practices for Permitting Infographic
An infographic summarizing the best practices for permitting, taken from the content on the Smart Sectors website.
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State Revolving Fund (SRF) Sustainability Conversation Guide
Letter from the Office of Water HQ in Washington DC to water management division directors and SRF coordinators.
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Quantifying the Multiple Benefits of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy - Full Report
Guidance for state energy, environmental, and economic policy makers to identify and quantify the many benefits of clean energy to support the development and implementation of cost-effective clean energy initiatives.