23 research outputs found
Virginia\u27s Waters: Still at Risk - A Critique of the Commonwealth\u27s Water Quality Assessment Reports
Get PDFFederal law requires all states to periodically report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the water quality of their rivers, lakes and streams and provide EPA with a listing of polluted waters. Virginia has recently prepared two reports for 1996 and boasts that only 5 percent of the Commonwealth\u27s rivers are polluted. Under closer inspection, this information is found to be extremely misleading due to a number of serious gaps and flaws within Virginia\u27s water quality monitoring program and its methods of data reporting and evaluation. When Virginia states that only 5 percent of the waters it monitors fail to meet water quality standards, it is misleading the public by concluding that Virginia\u27s waters are in great shape. Such a conclusion ignores the fact that compliance with a water quality standard is but one of may indices of the health of a waterbody. The absence of underwater grasses; the level of polluting nutrients; the presence of toxics in fish tissue or sediments B each of these is also an indicator of water quality conditions
Virginia\u27s Waters: Still at Risk - A Critique of the Commonwealth\u27s Water Quality Assessment Reports
Get PDFFederal law requires all states to periodically report to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the water quality of their rivers, lakes and streams and provide EPA with a listing of polluted waters. Virginia has recently prepared two reports for 1996 and boasts that only 5 percent of the Commonwealth\u27s rivers are polluted. Under closer inspection, this information is found to be extremely misleading due to a number of serious gaps and flaws within Virginia\u27s water quality monitoring program and its methods of data reporting and evaluation. When Virginia states that only 5 percent of the waters it monitors fail to meet water quality standards, it is misleading the public by concluding that Virginia\u27s waters are in great shape. Such a conclusion ignores the fact that compliance with a water quality standard is but one of may indices of the health of a waterbody. The absence of underwater grasses; the level of polluting nutrients; the presence of toxics in fish tissue or sediments B each of these is also an indicator of water quality conditions
A Network of Livable Communities: Evaluating Travel Benefit Effects of Alternative Transportation and Community Design for the National Capital Region
No full textThis study indicates that the Washington DC region could reverse the trend towards a growing number of motor vehicle trips per household and cap the growth of vehicle miles of travel per household by 2010. This paper is only a beginnings, and is not presented as a regional plan. The idea behind it is to indicate the benefits of an overall change of direction within the region as a whole, not to make specific suggestions for individual communities
