Recent Additions

Updated Watershed Academy course schedule available - If you would like us to publicize a watershed-related training course not listed on the calendar, please send info on course to: wacademy@epa.gov.

March 31, 2003

An updated version of the Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection is now available on-line as a searchable, Web site. This Web site provides information for watershed practitioners on 84 Federal funding sources that might be available to fund a variety of watershed protection projects. This Web site updates EPA's Catalog of Federal Funding Sources for Watershed Protection last published in 1999. Please click here to visit the Web site or remember this simple URL for future reference -- http://www.epa.gov/watershedfunding/.

October 18, 2002

Happy Birthday Clean Water Act! Yes, Oct. 18, 2002 is the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act.

EPA is pleased to mark the 30th anniversary of the Clean Water Act by announcing completion of the 44th Watershed Academy web-based training module called Introduction to the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the cornerstone of surface water quality protection in the United States and this web-based training module provides an introduction to the major CWA programs in the following sequence: 1) water quality standards, 2) antidegradation policy, 3) waterbody monitoring and assessment, 4) reports on condition of the nation's waters, 5) total maximum daily loads (TMDLs), 6) NPDES permit program for point sources, 7) Section 319 program for nonpoint sources, 8) Section 404 program regulating filling of wetlands and other waters; 9) Section 401 state water quality certification; 10) state revolving loan fund (SRF). Users may go through the entire 65 slide module on the CWA in sequence or jump to the particular CWA program of interest by going to the CWA Big Picture that is on at the top of each slide.

For more information about the Watershed Academy Web-Based Training and Watershed Management Certificate program go to http://www.epa.gov/watertrain/.

July 18, 2002

Updated Watershed Academy course schedule available - If you would like us to publicize a watershed-related training course not listed on the calendar, please send info on course to: wacademy@epa.gov.

May 2, 2002

Updated Watershed Academy course schedule available - If you would like us to publicize a watershed-related training course not listed on the calendar, please send info on course to: wacademy@epa.gov.

April 1, 2002

Updated Watershed Academy course schedule available. If you would like us to publicize a watershed-related training course not listed on the calendar, please send info on course to: wacademy@epa.gov.

February 4, 2002

Case study on the Big Darby Creek in Ohio posted as part of the Watershed Academy Information Transfer Series - Big Darby Creek Case Study: A Profile of Watershed Threats and Protection in a Midwest Landscape (pdf format)

February 1, 2002

Pew Center Releases Aquatic Ecosystems Report January 29, 2002 called "Aquatic Ecosystems and Global Climate Change:Potential Impacts on Inland Freshwater and Coastal Wetland Ecosystems in the United States." This new environmental impact series report released January 29, 2002 draws on a variety of sources to summarize researchers' current understanding of the potential impacts of climate change on U.S. aquatic ecosystems. View the press release and full report at: http://www.pewclimate.org/global-warming-in-depth/all_reports/aquatic_ecosystems