WSP01118

• File Number: 8027
• Description: Section D General Correspondence - Federal Agencies - EPA
• State: CO
• Basin: Statewide
• Date: 1/9/1973
• Author: EPA
• Title: EPA - Water Strategy
• Water Supply Pro - Doc Type: Report/Study

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A strategy implemented Wi~h limite~ resources must
isolate those areas ,,'here pollution is most severe, and
significant concentrations of populatio~ would benefit from
cleaner water. Of the Nation's 267 water basins. 89 fall
within this category. Here EPA Regional Administrators
report serious pollution problems, or w~ter quality assess-
ments indicate'major violations of standards (either in terms
of miles of stream affected, or duration. and intensity of
the violations). .

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Table 1 shows how these basins were selected. starting
with the 62 basins containing EPA priority areas and adding
27 additional basins with high pollution problems not
attributable to non-point sources. These 89 basins include
10 basins with significant non-point source pollution problems.

A.second table shows that these basins contain 65% of the
.. Nation's population and 60% of the major industrial dischargers.

(2) Marine Waters

Again, becaUSe of resource constraints, this strategy
. concentrates on toxic bioaccumulative, and disease bearing
pollutants. This strategy collects data on the effects of
oil. spills, ocean outfalls, and ocean dumping. Although we
kno\" something about the frequency of these occurrences. we
know little about their effects.

A 1970 study by CEQreported that.there are 600-1000 major
dumpers of waste using approximately 250 disposal sites.
Table 3 shows their distribution.

Although dredge spoil accounts for 80% by weight of all
ocean dumping. more danger lies in the dumping of industrial
wastes (10"!<i by weight) or the smaller categories (lO"!<i) of

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