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2002 305b Report

The 2002 Report to Congress on Water Quality satisfies requirements contained in Section 305(b) of the Clean Water Act for each state to submit a biennial report to Congress evaluating the quality of its streams, rivers and lakes. The Clean Water Act seeks to make the nation's waters "fishable and swimmable." The report assesses the extent to which the state's waters have attained that goal.

The 2002 report includes the second and third years of an intensive inter-agency watershed monitoring effort with the support of state, federal and local agencies.  It focuses attention on the Salt/Licking River Basin Unit and the Cumberland/Tennessee/Mississippi Unit of the Watershed Management Framework.  It also presents a summary of data from the entire state.  Therefore, this report includes results not only of three years of intensive watershed data collection but also data collected prior to 1998 in the two basin management units that have not yet been sampled intensively (Green/Tradewater unit and Big Sandy/Little Sandy/Tygarts unit).  Data collected by the Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) were used to make assessments for the main stem of the Ohio River.

The report is also available on a CD and as a paper copy. Cost for paper copies is $15 each.  For either the CD or the paper copy, contact Dru Hawkins, Division of Water, 14 Reilly Road, Frankfort, KY 40601 or by telephone (502) 564-3410.

See the full report. (6,684KB)

Or view it in these sections:

Part 1 (2,664KB)
Part 2 (970KB)
Part 3 (3,072KB)