CLEAN WATER ACT: EPA Should Track Control of Combined Sewer Overflows and Water Quality Improvements.

CLEAN Water Act of 1972 (U.S.); COMBINED sewer overflows; SEWAGE disposal; UNITED States. Environmental Protection Agency; ENVIRONMENTAL policy; UNITED States. Government Accountability Office

The article discusses a U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) study on Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) policy on combined sewer overflow (CSO) discharges and the status of long-term control plans and challenges faced by U.S. municipalities to address the problem. Topics include how the EPA tracks the progress in CSO control plan implementation and improving water quality resulting from CSO controls, how the CSOs occurred according to GAO study and the recommendations made by GAO.