CWNS 2000 Report to Congress

The Clean Watersheds Needs Survey 2000 Report to Congresssummarizes the results of EPA's 13th national survey  survey. It was conducted to meet the requirements set forth in the Clean Water Act (CWA). Section 516 of the CWA requires reports to Congress detailing state and national estimates and comprehensive studies on costs for compliance with the CWA. This report includes a presentation and analysis of the capital investment necessary to meet the Nation's wastewater treatment and collection system needs and, to a limited extend, its municipal stormwater management program needs. EPA has also elected to include nonpoint source pollution control needs. Only PDF files of individual chapters and appendices are available.

CWNS 2000 Data 
Data and reports can be access quickly and easily through the following three options:

• Facility/Project Fact Sheet shows CWNS data available for an individual wastewater treatment plant, collection system, stormwater management facility, decentralized wastewater management project, or nonpoint source (NPS) pollution prevention project
• Ask WATERS Expert Query Tool provides data experts the ability to search and filter data within user selected tables (e.g. "Needs", "Flow"). Results are delivered in a tabular report and can be downloaded in CSV or HTML format
• The Microsoft Access file allows data experts the ability to select data across multiple tables. (File size is approximately 88.3 million bytes)

Contact Us ! Office of Water

CWNS, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water Management (4204M), 1200 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C.  20460