Celebrating Progress

Looking Ahead

See information about the Clean Water Act and its effects in Kentucky at the following Web sites:
CWA in Kentucky Home Page
History and Background
Successes (KPDES / Nonpoint Source / State Revolving Fund)
Trends
What We Are Doing   
Challenges for the Future   
Calendar of Events    
National Water Monitoring Day   
National Youth Watershed Summit    
World Watershed Summit   

Successes

KPDES

2002 inventory of KPDES permits

Municipal

Municipal
Total number of municipal sources	251
POTWs (publicly owned treatment works) with required pretreatment programs (active)	66
POTWs with required pretreatment programs (inactive)	10
Total number of SIUs under pretreatment program	700+
POTWs with Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs)	17 (306 CSOs)
KIMOPs	34

Industrial

Industrial
Total number of individual permits and general permits	8,532
Individual permits	771
Coal mining general permits	3,296
Noncoal mining general permits	210
Water treatment plant general permits	150
KYA	8
KYC	1
Highway maintenance general permits	129
Groundwater remediation general permits	55
Stormwater general permits	3,912
Total numer of Industrial KNDOPs (Ky.No Discharge Operating Permits)	1,801
Agricultural	1,636
Industrial	165
Total number of oil and gas registrations	10,192

Private/Commercial

Private/Commercial
Total number of individual and general permits	1,976
Individual permits*	870
General permits (individual residence)	1,106
Total number of KNDOPs	298
TOTALS
Individual permits	1,893
General permits (Excludes KIMOPs and KYC)	8,866
KNDOPs	2,099
Oil and gas registrations	10,192
Pretreatment programs (66 active; 10 inactive)	76 (w/700 + SIUs)

Click on the logo above for information about the U.S. EPA's NPDES program.
 

See successes in Kentucky for:
State revolving fund    
Nonpoint source