Progress in Water Quality: Technical Report

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An Evaluation of the National Investment in Municipal Wastewater Treatment EPA-832-R-00-008, June 2000

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• Cover (PDF) (5pp, 1745K)
  
• Table of Contents (PDF) (4pp, 291K)
  
• Foreward (PDF) (2pp, 230K)
  
• Acknowledgements (PDF) (2pp, 228K)
  
• Acronyms (PDF) (2pp, 227K)
  
• Executive Summary (PDF) (20pp, 2673K)
  
• Chapter 1 (PDF) (16pp, 1023K) - Introduction
  
• Chapter 2 (PDF) (78pp, 3832K) - An Examination of BOD Loadings Before and After the CWA
  
• Chapter 3 (PDF) (52pp, 4468K) - An Examination of "Worst-Case" DO in Waterways Below Point Sources Before and After the CWA
  
• Chapter 4 (PDF) (14pp, 965K) - Case Study Assessments of Water Quality
  
• Chapter 5 (PDF) (12pp, 314K) - Connecticut River Case Study
  
• Chapter 6 (PDF) (32pp, 620K) - Hudson-Raritan Estuary Case Study
  
• Chapter 7 (PDF) (26pp, 676K) - Delaware Estuary Case Study
  
• Chapter 8 (PDF) (20pp, 640K) - Potomac Estuary Case Study
  
• Chapter 9 (PDF) (16pp, 442K) - James River Estuary Case Study
  
• Chapter 10 (PDF) (16pp, 414K) - Upper Chattahoochee River Case Study
  
• Chapter 11 (PDF) (14pp, 553K) - Ohio River Case Study
  
• Chapter 12 (PDF) (34pp, 458K) - Upper Mississippi River Case Study
  
• Chapter 13 (PDF) (14pp, 303K) - Willamette River Case Study
  
• Appendix A (PDF) (10pp, 39K) — Summary of Peer Review Team Comments and Study Authors’ Responses
  
• Appendix B (PDF) (26pp, 93K) — National Municipal Wastewater Inventory and Infrastructure, 1940 to 2016
  
• Appendix C (PDF) (pp, 92K) — National Public and Private Sector Investment in Water Pollution Control
  
• Appendix D (PDF) (8pp, 57K) — Before and After CWA Changes in 10th Percentile Dissolved Oxygen and 90th Percentile BOD₅ at the Catalog Unit Level
  
• Appendix E (PDF) (6pp, 50K) — Before and After CWA Changes in 10th Percentile Dissolved Oxygen at the RF1 Reach Level
  
• Glossary (PDF) (17pp, 1907K)