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Projects and Activities
The Projects and Activities page is an area to share trading projects, agricultural guidance, trading research, legislation and additional water quality trading information developed by southeastern states, federal agencies and universities. A map of state and individual trading projects throughout the country is also available.
The links below are provided to assist states, water quality agencies, local governments, regulated and unregulated dischargers, industries and citizen groups with the information to determine if water quality trading is a viable tool for achieving water quality standards.
On this page
Agriculture
- Water Quality Trading Guide
Conservation Technology Information Center : Getting Paid for Stewardship: An Agricultural Community Water Quality Trading Guide, July 2006
- U.S. Department of Agriculture Water Quality Trading
- Partnership Agreement
U.S. Department of Agriculture and EPA Water Quality Credit Trading Agreement - Offers Farmers and Ranchers Market-based Incentives to Improve Water Quality, October 13, 2006
Florida
- Water Quality Credit Trading - A Report to the Governor and Legislature
Florida Department of Environmental Protection’s Pollutant Trading Policy Advisory Committee prepares Water Quality Credit Trading, December 2006
Georgia
- Georgia’s Water Resources: A Blueprint for the Future
Georgia’s draft Comprehensive Water Management plan that includes watershed permitting and water quality trading in Georgia.
- A Framework for Trading Phosphorus Credits in the Lake Allatoona Watershed
A framework for trading phosphorus credits between point sources and agricultural/forestry non-point sources in the Lake Allatoona watershed.
- Building a Foundation for Water Quality Trading in Georgia
- A Feasibility Analysis of Applying Water Quality Trading in Georgia Watersheds
- An Evaluation of Water Quality Trading in Georgia
- Water Quality Analysis: Legal Analysis for Georgia Watersheds
- Nutrient Trading in the Upper Chattahoochee Watershed: A Feasibility Analysis
- Water Quality Trading in the Context of the Anti-degradation Requirements of the Federal and State Clean Water Policies
North Carolina
- Strategic Planning Project
Cape Fear River Assembly's Targeted Watershed Project to conduct a basin-wide water quality trading study that incorporates urban stormwater management into an incentive-based watershed permitting framework
- Proposed Jordon Reservoir Water Supply Nutrient Strategy
Tennessee
- Beaver Creek Watershed Restoration Plan
EPA grant to develop a Beaver Creek Watershed plan and pilot Ecological Credit Trading in a watershed near Knoxville.
For
information about the contents of this page please contact
Steven Blackburn (blackburn.steven@epa.gov)
Steven Blackburn (blackburn.steven@epa.gov)