Areawide Water Quality: The 208 Planning Experience

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Moreau, David
- Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of City and Regional Planning

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Of the many changes brought about by passage of the amendments to the Water Pollution Control Act of 1972 (Public Law 92-500), the one having the greatest potential impact on urban planning is Section 208. This Section calls for areawide water quality management in all regions exhibiting complex water quality problems caused by urban and industrial concentrations. Provisions of Section 208 afford opportunities to achieve economies of scale and consistency of management plans among the several political jurisdictions in metropolitan areas; they broaden the scope of water pollution control to embrace urban storm water runoff and nonpoint sources of pollution from agriculture, forestry, construction, and other activities; and they significantly expand the range of management techniques to include regulatory programs at the areawide level and, if necessary, land use controls. The purpose of this paper is to describe the basin-level planning environment within which areawide planning takes place. the current status of the program, and the planning process as it was developed for the Research Triangle of North Carolina, the first area in the United States designated and funded under the present legislation.

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