Successes
National Youth Watershed Summit
Click on the logo above for information about the Year of Clean Water.
See Kentucky's 2002 Report to Congress on Water Quality (305[b] Report)
See EPA's 2000 National Water Quality Inventory (National 305[b] Report)
See EPA's Water Quality Standards Web site
Trends
Water quality in Kentucky, over the years of the Clean Water Act, has improved steadily.
1972: 71 percent of waterways in Kentucky that were assessed because information was available did not support their designated uses.
2000: 44.2 percent of assessed waterways did not support designated uses, as reported in the 2002 Report to Congress on Water Quality (305[b] Report).
Current state of waterways
in Kentucky
(from 2002 Report to
Congress on Water Quality)
