Nonpoint source pollution generally results from land runoff, atmospheric deposition, drainage, or seepage of contaminants. A stormwater runoff or flow can mobilize various pollutants such as ...

To address widespread sources of nonpoint water pollution, the Washington State Department of Ecology is updating ...

The Clean Water Act has reached its 50th anniversary. Still befuddling federal regulators is nonpoint-source pollution — a technocratic term describing pesticides, oil, fertilizers, toxins ...

The Virginia Department of Environmental Quality has announced $19 million in awards for nine innovative projects. This is a part of its pay-for-outcomes nonpoint source pollution reduction grant ...

EGLE announced approximately $3.5 million in grant funds to watersheds this year, as part of their annual effort to control and prevent nonpoint source pollution. "We really try to get it every ...

You are invited to comment on the 2025 update to Washington's Water Quality Management Plan to Control Nonpoint Sources of ...

Another major challenge is nonpoint source pollution — discharges that come from many diffuse sources, such as runoff from farm fields. As a result, algal blooms have returned to Lake Erie.

Nonpoint pollution sources do not usually come from one place like a pipe but instead run off from larger areas and are the largest manageable sources of pollution entering the Chesapeake Bay.