On May 21, 黑料不打烊 challenged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency鈥檚 consideration of using the Clean Water Act (CWA) permit program to regulate discharges to groundwater eventually making their way to a jurisdictional surface water. EPA鈥檚 considered action could impact contractors who employ stormwater collection systems (such as detention ponds) as well as green infiltration practices to control stormwater. CWA programs cover point source discharges to jurisdictional waters, not releases to groundwater. 黑料不打烊 further argued that groundwater is currently protected under other laws, such as, for example, the Safe Drinking Water Act.
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