The Clean Water Restoration Act

Submitted by WhitesCreek on November 19, 2009 - 9:06am.

has anybody noticed that clean water is a really big deal for Roane County? Don't you wish wwe didn't have enormous problems with our Rivers and Lake right now? Want to do something big to help? Senator Russ Feingold has introduced a bill that needs our attention. Get involved. It's easy.
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From American Canoe Association Counsel, Paul Sanford:
Submitted by WhitesCreek on November 19, 2009 - 9:09am.

Recent Supreme Court decisions and actions by federal agencies have narrowed the jurisdiction of the Clean Water Act (CWA). As a result, the headwater sections of many of America’s streams and rivers are losing CWA protection. Other seasonal and ephemeral streams, and those that flow in closed basins, are also vulnerable. CWRA would restore the protections of the Clean Water Act to important to these areas.

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