Water pollution in the United States

• Water pollution in the United States

Topsoil runoff from farm, central Iowa, USA (2011)

Pollution incidents

• Buffalo Creek flood
• Camp Lejeune water contamination
• Cruise ship pollution in the United States
• Hinkley groundwater contamination
• Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill
• Lead contamination in Washington, D.C. drinking water
• Martin County coal slurry spill
• Water contamination in Crestwood, Illinois
• 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill
• Woburn, Massachusetts#Groundwater contamination incident

Polluted water bodies (partial list)

Industrial waste discharged to Cuyahoga River, Ohio (1973)

• Ohio River, ranked as the most polluted river in the United States in 2010
• Onondaga Lake
• Aliso Creek (Orange County)
• Bubbly Creek
• Duwamish River
• Houston Ship Channel
• Housatonic River
• Hudson River
• Kamilo Beach
• Love Canal
• Newark Bay
• Newtown Creek
• New River (Mexico – United States)
• Passaic River
• Lake Erie
• Lake Gribben

Public policy and research

• American Heritage Rivers
• Clean Water Act
• Clean Water State Revolving Fund
• Effluent guidelines (wastewater regulations)
• Nationwide Urban Runoff Program
• New Source Performance Standard (wastewater regulations)
• Total maximum daily load (wastewater regulations)
• WaterSense (EPA conservation program)

See also

• Effects of hydraulic fracturing on water quality in the United States
• Environmental issues in the United States
• Water supply and sanitation in the United States
• Great Lakes#Pollution
• Anderson v. Cryovac

External links

• Water Pollution Control at the Environmental Protection Agency
• Find out what's in what you're drinking: Search the US Tapwater Database | Environmental Working Group
• Report: Virginia second in nation in water pollution (WTVR.com, March 23, 2012)