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Public Comment Sought on Report About Cane Run Stream Impairments
The Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking public comment until Sept. 4 on a draft report addressing impairments in seven stream segments within the Cane Run watershed located in Fayette and Scott...
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Public Comment Sought On Report About Laurel, Little Laurel Stream Impairments
The Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking public comment until Sept. 21 on a draft report addressing bacteria impairments in 11 stream segments within the Laurel and Little Laurel watersheds...
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Comment Period on Impaired Waters List Extended to Oct. 15
The Kentucky Division of Water has extended its comment period until Oct. 15, 2012, on its draft 2012 list of impaired waters, as required by the federal Clean Water Act. Section 305(b) of the Act...
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EEC Submits Status Report to Franklin Circuit Court Regarding ICG, LLC and...
In accordance with the Franklin Circuit Court’s order entered on July 19, 2012, the Cabinet filed a status report on Monday, September 17, 2012 with the Court regarding the ongoing Clean Water Act...
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Public Comment Sought on Report About Stream Impairments in Muddy Creek...
The Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking public comment until Dec. 15, 2012, on a draft report addressing bacteria impairments in seven stream segments within the Muddy Creek watershed, located in...
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Public Comment Sought on Report About Stream Impairments in Cox Creek Watershed
The Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking public comment until Dec. 21, 2012, on a draft report addressing bacteria impairments in nine stream segments within the Cox Creek watershed located in the...
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Division of Water Proposes Changes to Water Quality Standards for Selenium
The Energy and Environment Cabinet is in the process of conducting a Triennial Review of Kentucky’s water quality standards. The cabinet’s proposed changes to the Kentucky water quality standards were...
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New Selenium Water Quality Standards for Selenium Proposed – DOW Receiving...
The Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) made public notification of proposed new water quality criteria for selenium on Feb. 5, 2013 and is receiving public comment on these proposed criteria through Mar....
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Response to Comments Being Developed for Proposed Water Quality Criteria
On February 5, 2013, in response to comments received during the Division of Water’s triennial review of Kentucky’s water quality standards, the Division made notice of the agency’s proposal to update...
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Amendment for selenium water quality standards filed with LRC
Division of Water files Statement of Consideration responding to public comments received regarding proposed amendments to water quality criteria for selenium On April 3, 2013, the Division of Water...
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Amendment for selenium water quality standards approved by LRC’s...
Next stop: Interim Joint Committee on Natural Resources and Environment At its April 9 meeting, the Administrative Regulation Review Subcommittee (ARRS) of the Legislative Research Commission reviewed...
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Public comment sought on bacteria TMDL for 10 stream segments in the Carr...
The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking public comment until May 24, 2013,on a draft report addressing E. coli and fecal coliform impairments in Carr Fork Watershed located in Knott...
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Division of Water re-issues industrial stormwater general permit
The Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) has re-issued the Kentucky Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (KPDES) general permit regulating stormwater runoff associated with industrial activity. The...
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Division of Water Reminds Kentuckians to Conserve Water
‘Drinking Water Week’ highlights value of this limited resource The Kentucky Division of Water encourages Kentuckians during National Drinking Water Week, May 5-11, to practice water conservation every...
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Public Comment Sought on Report About Stream Impairments in Hardwick Creek...
Comment period ends June 24 The Energy and Environment Cabinet is seeking public comment until June 24, 2013, on a draft report addressing E. coli impairments in five stream segments within the...
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Wellhead Protection Areas
Are you familiar with Wellhead Protection Areas (WHPA)? Whether you are or not, it’s likely your community or facility has a WHPA if groundwater is a public source of drinking water. So what is a...
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What Is Stormwater and Why Should We Care?
During a rain event, precipitation is either taken up by plants, infiltrates into the soil, evaporates to the atmosphere or encounters saturated land or impervious surfaces and creates runoff....
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Division of Water moving forward with Wastewater Laboratory Certification...
On June 14, 2013, the Division of Water (DOW) filed with the Legislative Research Commission proposed amendments to an administrative regulation (401 KAR 5:320) establishing the Kentucky Wastewater...
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Division of Water urges public to learn more about impaired waters
The Kentucky Division of Water is working to better engage public participation in the process of improving impaired waters in the Commonwealth by expanding information about those waters on its...
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Floyds Fork public meeting set for July 29
The Kentucky Division of Water (DOW) will conduct a public meeting Monday, July 29, from 10 a.m. to noon EDT in Conference Room 301D at the Kentucky Department for Environmental Protection located at...
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