Water Quality Standards

NEWS UPDATE: 

After many months of hard word and dedication by residents and local environmental groups Sierra Club, Rivers Unlimited, Ohio River Foundation, Kentucky Waterways Alliance and West Virginia Rivers Coalition, ORSANCO finally decided to table the proposal to lower water quality standards for the Ohio River. 

After postponing the vote in June because of the vast amount of adverse public comment, the Commission decided to table the proposal due to the large amount of public concern.  Congratulations and thank you to all of you who wrote letters, came to public hearings and mailed in postcards.  You truly made a difference!  Click here for the story.

In the News:

OHIO

Published Letters

"Wet Weather Proposal May Lower Ohio River Water Quality Standards" (4/18/06)

"Activists oppose pollution changes" (4/26/06)

"Swimmer's mission:  Clean river" (8/2/06)

"Cox brave in dirty world" (8/5/06)

"It's not the heat, it's the heckling" (8/5/06)

"Swimmer crosses the Ohio to protest pollution" (8/6/06)

A message from Lynne Cox

Watered down river regs delayed (10/10/06)

KENTUCKY

"River users could face water-quality dangers" (4/13/06)

"Hearing weighs changing river pollution guides" (4/26/06)

"Commission adds Louisville hearing on river pollution" (4/23/06)

"Water quality change meets opposition" (5/25/06)

"Water-quality plan opposed" (5/26/06)

INDIANA

"River buffs don't want Ohio used as sewer" (5/2/06)