Why Storm Water
Why Storm Water by Dennis Morgan ENV Policy Fall 2003 Cleveland State University There are simple reasons to be concerned about storm water. For the environmental planner, phase II implementation of the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System Regulations (NPDES) represents the new frontier and the new battle with Nonpoint source pollution; “Usually nonspecific, sources that are released in various ways at many points in the environment” (Marsh 203). Storm water is the primary vehicle of this type of pollution in both the rural and urban settings. As agriculture runoff is exempt from the current policy debate this paper will focus on the problem of urban storm water control. The problem of agricultural runoff is especially acute in industrial farming, but the exclusion of this sector underlines the difficulties inherent in Nonpoint source pollution control. Policy for the urban field has been continually delayed over the last decades and most observers have accepted the inc...