The Integrated Report to Congress on the Condition of Water Resources in Kentucky, 2010, volumes 1 and 2, prepared every two years as required by Section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act, has been released by the Energy and Environment Cabinet’s Division of Water.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will hold two public listening sessions on potential changes to the water quality standards regulation before proposing a national rule. The current regulation, which has been in place since 1983, governs how states and authorized tribes adopt standards needed under the Clean Water Act to protect the quality of their rivers, streams, lakes, and estuaries.
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The head of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security’s Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Craig Fugate announced today that federal disaster aid has been made available to the Commonwealth of Kentucky to supplement commonwealth and local recovery efforts in the area struck by severe storms, flooding, and mudslides beginning on July 17, 2010, and continuing.
Governor Steve Beshear declared a State of Emergency in Kentucky following severe storms that struck Pike and Shelby counties early Sunday morning and several northeastern Kentuckian counties late Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning. The storms have caused flash flooding, evacuations and water rescues in the northeastern Kentucky counties of Carter, Elliott, Lewis, Mason and Rowan counties.
American Water Works Association Kentucky/Tennessee Section awarded Warren County Water District with the 2010 Public Information Award of Excellence during the Water Professionals Conference held at the Nashville Convention Center earlier this week. Warren Water was recognized in the Green/Environmental Communication Category for the “Be Green to Keep Blue Clean” campaign among large utilities in Kentucky and Tennessee.
