This document focuses on one aspect of the Watershed Protection Approach--developing watershed-specific programs or projects. It provides a blueprint for designing and implementing watershed projects including references ...

This guide serves the following purposes: To encourage comprehensive planning that involves both public and private interests to achieve a balance between quality development and resource protection, particularly of coastal ...

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One emerging framework for a statewide Watershed Protection Approach focuses on organizing and managing by a state's major watersheds, which are called basins in this document. In this statewide approach, activities such ...

This issue of Watershed Events focuses on partnership efforts to protect and restore the Mississippi River Basin and the Gulf of Mexico. Protecting and restoring North America's largest river system is one of the most ...

The following document entitled "Water Quality Standards Handbook - Second Edition" provides guidance issued in support of the Water Quality Standards Regulation (40 CFR 131, as amended). This Handbook includes the operative ...

This document describes efforts with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other State, Federal, and local agencies to refocus existing water pollution control programs to operate in a more comprehensive and ...

This document provides a summary of activities EPA has carried out in 1993 and 1994 to support the watershed protection approach and a short discussion on anticipated future directions. In addition, summaries of watershed ...

This report describes water quality in the United States using a set of 18 environmental indicators that measure progress toward national water goals and objectives.

The purpose of the Status Report is to provide a brief overview of the bacterial water quality standards that have been adopted by states for their marine and fresh recreational waters in the United States. This report is ...