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Non-Point
Source Pollution
Non-point Source (NPS) pollution is the largest source of
water quality degradation to our source water resources across
the nation. According to United States Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA) information, 40 percent of our surveyed rivers,
lakes, and estuaries are not clean enough to meet basic uses
such as fishing or swimming because of NPS pollution of our
surface and ground water resources.
The American Ground Water Trust received a grant from the
EPA under the Source Water Protection Program to help the
town of Plainfield, Connecticut create a matrix (Tables 1
and 2) of land use types, land use management goals and best
management practices (BMPs) to address NPS pollution issues
in the town. A manual was created for the town that includes
the matrix, descriptions of fundamental NPS categories, glossary
of terms, references cited, a Land Use Management Area map
of the town and Appendix of BMP descriptions.
This information may serve as an example for other rural
municipalities and can be accessed through the links below.
These documents are provided in Adobe Acrobat format. If you
do not have the Acrobat Reader please download it free from
Adobe (see below) and then return here to download and view
the documents.
Please note these are large files and are best viewed after
they have been downloaded to your system. To download directly
to your system simply use the "right-click" button on your
mouse and select "save target as" to save the file.
The following tables are contained within the Manual and
are provided here for quick reference purposes.
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