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
Trends
Water quality in Kentucky, over the years of the Clean Water Act, has improved steadily.
1972: 71 percent of waterways in Kentucky that were assessed because information was available did not support their designated uses.
2000: 44.2 percent of assessed waterways did not support designated uses, as reported in the 2002 Report to Congress on Water Quality (305[b] Report).
Current state of waterways in Kentucky
(From 2002 Report to Congress on Water Quality )



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