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Results of the metro Atlanta source assessment project
Results of the metro Atlanta source assessment project
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Daniel, Cindy
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The 1996 Amendments to the Safe Water
Drinking Act resulted in an EPA mandate that every
State be required to submit an implementation plan for
comprehensive Source Water Assessment Programs.
The Atlanta Regional Commission in coordination
with the State of Georgia Department of Natural
Resources and local water managers developed these
assessments for 28 Metro Atlanta water supply
watersheds. These assessments resulted in an
inventory of almost 6,000 potential individual sources
of pollution. Watershed susceptibility to contamination
through non-point source runoff using land use
analysis as an indicator was also evaluated. A
combined susceptibility ranking of high, medium or
low was then determined for each of the watersheds.
In the Metro Atlanta Region, four watersheds ranked
highly susceptible to potential pollutant sources, three
ranked medium to high, sixteen ranked medium and
five ranked low.
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2003-04
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