Water

In response to U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Sackett v. EPA:

KRC responds to U.S. Supreme Court Decision in Sackett v. EPA: stating the decision "represents a disappointing setback for the decades-long national effort to restore, protect, and maintain water quality"

KRC Partners on Call to Stop the Weakening of Clean Water Protections

On November 16, KRC joined with 116 conservation, faith, and health organizations and businesses in urging the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to withdraw its rushed Proposal to Reissue and Modify Nationwide Permits.

KRC Supports Clean Water

KRC was honored to be a signatory to a letter to United States Senators and Representatives highlighting water quality concerns and priorities of conservation organizations regarding the comprehensive water resources legislation pending.

Nucor Construction on the Bank of the Ohio River

KRC comments on the request by the Nucor Corporation for Section 404 Permit for their proposed Brandenburg, Kentucky steel plate mill.

Protecting Benham and Lynch from Expanded Mining

A petition to designate the historic districts within the cities of Benham and Lynch Kentucky and the viewshed from those districts, and the watersheds that provide the water supply for the towns as areas unsuitable for mining has been drafted by KRC

Thousands Oppose ORSANCO's Proposal to Eliminate Water Pollution Control Standards for the Ohio River

KRC's Director, Tom FitzGerald, serves as a federal Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission (ORSANCO) commissioner and made comments opposing ORSANCO's proposal to eliminate water pollution standards for the Ohio River.

Change to water regulation cures conflict regarding when appeal period runs for challenges to permit decisions.

Division of Water Proposes Last Minute Changes In Selenium Water Quality Limits

KRS Chapter 13A is designed to assure that an agency regulation is subject to public notice and comment. The agency request plainly violates both the letter and spirit of KRS Chapter 13A and deprives the public of notice and comment.

Water Permitting Regulation Changes Reflect KRC Comments

Kentucky-American Water Hearing Concludes, Briefs Due December 28.

KRC Responds To Announcement of Filing Of Bill By Senators McConnell and Paul To Limit EPA's Ability To Veto Mine Fill Permits

Challenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky Water Quality Standards

Challenge to EPA Approval of 2013 Kentucky Water Quality Standards for selenium and for preventing eutrophication results in settlement agreement.

Statement of KRC Director Tom FitzGerald On Proposed Stream Protection Rule

KRC Joins the National Parks Conservation Association and 26 other groups in filing a friend of the court brief supporting the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Clean Water Blueprint

KRC Joins the National Parks Conservation Association and 26 other groups in filing a friend of the court brief supporting the Chesapeake Bay TMDL Clean Water Blueprint

KRC Expresses Support For Removing Position of For-Profit Water Provider From Kentucky Infrastructure Board

KRC Expresses Support For Removing Position of For-Profit Water Provider From Kentucky Infrastructure Authority Board

KRC Expresses Support For Removing Position of For-Profit Water Provider From Kentucky Infrastructure Authority Board

Complaint Challenges EPA Approval of Selenium Water Quality Standard for Kentucky

Complaint Challenges EPA Approval of Selenium Water Quality Standard for Kentucky

KRC Seeks Assurances Of Community Facility Reviews For Proposed MSD and Louisville Water Co. Facilities

Acting Region IV EPA Administrator Asked To Reject Kentucky's Change To Selenium Water Quality Standards Due To Lack Of State Agency Compliance With Public Participation Requirements

KRC Urges Regulation Subcommittee To Reject State Selenium Water Quality Standard Revision For Lack Of Compliance With Federal Public Participation Requirements

KRC Signs Joint Letter With 94 Other Organizations In Seeking Reforms In Federal Water Resources Development Act

KRC Signs Joint Letter With 94 Other Organizations In Seeking Reforms In Federal Water Resources Development Act

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes to State Water Quality Standards

KRC Comments on Proposed Changes to State Water Quality Standards

KRC Comments On Proposed Division of Water Regulations

Discretionary Review Sought In Kentucky-American Water Case

Discretionary Review Sought In Kentucky-American Water Case

Water Quality Certification for Paducah Dock Project Challenged

Water Quality Certification for Paducah Dock Project Challenged

KRC Joins 64 Other Conservation Organizations In Joint Comments Opposing Reissuance Of Nationwide Fill Permits

KRC Joins 64 Other Conservation Organizations In Joint Comments Opposing Reissuance Of Nationwide Fill Permits

KRC Comments On Amendments To Water Antidegradaton Rule

KRC Comments On Amendments To Water Antidegradaton Rule

KRC Requests Denial of Water Quality Certification in Dock Project

KRC Requests Denial of Water Quality Certification in Dock Project

KRC Joins In Comments Supporting EPA's Guidance On Improving Review of Appalachian Mining Operations Under Clean Water Act.

EPA's Guidance On Improving Review of Appalachian Mining Operations Under Clean Water Act.

Final FY 2011Mine Regulation Performance Agreement Between Office of Surface Mining and Kentucky Incorporates Several Recommendations From KRC

A significant impediment to remining sites where existing conditions are generating significant pollution runoff, is the adoption by EPA of regulations, 15 years after the Rahall Amendment to the Clean Water Act, which completely eviscerated...

Division of Water Modifies Regulation For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems To Require Engineering Report For Any Engineered System

Division of Water Modifies Regulation For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems To Require Engineering Report For Any Engineered System

Memorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills

Memorandum Of Understanding Among Mining And Water Agencies Will Implement Fill Minimization Protocol and Reduce The Size and Number of Valley Fills

KRC Questions Lower Standards For Review of Semipublic Water Treatment Systems

Frasure Creek 404 Application in Buckhorn Creek Watershed Withdrawn

Frasure Creek 404 Application in Buckhorn Creek Watershed Withdrawn

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC Comments On Proposed Underground Mine Near Lynch Water Reservoir

KRC requests hearing, and EIS on proposed barge facility in Meade County

KRC requests hearing, and EIS on proposed barge facility in Meade County

Court Remands Permits For 9 West Kentucky Confined Hog Feeding Operations

Court Remands Permits For 9 West Kentucky Confined Hog Feeding Operations

A Tale of Two Cities, Part Deux

Coal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened

Coal Mine General Water Discharge Permit Conditions Tightened

KRC Comments On Proposed Revisions to Drinking Water System Regulations

KRC Comments On Proposed Revisions to Drinking Water System Regulations

KRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake

KRC Opposes Strip Mine Above Lynch's Water Supply Intake

Assessment of Waters

Assessment of Waters

KRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit

KRC Comments On Proposed Reissuance Of Coal General Water Discharge Permit

KRC Responds To Obama Administration Proposed Mining Reforms

The Council harbors serious concerns regarding whether the proposed reforms go far enough to assure full implementation both of the Clean Water Act and the Surface Coal Mining and Reclamation Act of 1977.

KRC Comments On Revisions To Kentucky Water Regulations

KRC Comments On Revisions To Kentucky Water Regulations

Opening Brief Filed in Kentucky-American Water Appeal

Motions Challenge Kentucky-American's Condemnation Powers

Motions Challenge Kentucky-American's Condemnation Powers

Edmonson Stone Quarry Appeal Resolved

Edmonson Stone Quarry Appeal Resolved

Declaratory Judgment Challenges Kentucky-American Water Company's Power To Condemn Land For Pipeline Project

Declaratory Judgment Challenges Kentucky-American Water Company's Power To Condemn Land For Pipeline Project

6th Circuit Decision in Antidegradation Case Rejects In Part EPA's Approval of Kentucky Water Quality Rules

6th Circuit Decision in Antidegradation Case Rejects In Part EPA's Approval of Kentucky Water Quality Rules

CAWS Appeals PSC Order Granting Kentucky-American Certificate For New Water Treatment Plant and Pipeline

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KRC Comments on Public Notice Rules For Water Quality Certifications

MSD Variance Approving Relocation of Beargrass Creek on River Metals Property Is Remanded

MSD Variance Approving Relocation of Beargrass Creek on River Metals Property Is Remanded

Agreed Order Entered in Challenge to DOE Water Discharge Permit

Agreed Order Entered in Challenge to DOE Water Discharge Permit

Floodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged

Floodplain Variance Allowing Beargrass Creek Relocation Is Challenged

Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed

Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules Opposed

Appeal Filed On Cabinet Order Upholding Issuance of Permits For Confined Hog Operations In Fulton, Carlisle and Hickman Counties

Appeal Filed On Cabinet Order Upholding Issuance of Permits For Confined Hog Operations In Fulton, Carlisle and Hickman Counties

KRC Asks Federal Highway Administration to review Kentucky DOT's efforts to exempt I-66 from Kentucky Wild Rivers law

Citizens for Alternative Water Solutions Is Granted Full Intervention Rights In Kentucky-American Water Plant Case

Proposed Limestone Quarry Drainage Into Mammoth Cave Basin Opposed

KRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes

KRC Comments on Drinking Water Rule Changes

Comments on Glasgow Landfill Water Discharge Permit

Comments on Glasgow Landfill Water Discharge Permit

Broader monitoring and limits sought for wastewater discharge into Lake Cumberland

Broader monitoring and limits sought for wastewater discharge into Lake Cumberland

Fulton County Approves Ordinance Regulating Confined Hog Operations

Fulton County Approves Ordinance Regulating Confined Hog Operations

Floodplain Regulation Change Questioned

Floodplain Regulation Change Questioned

Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged

Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant Challenged

KRC Asks For Stricter Limits On Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Facility

KRC Asks For Stricter Limits On Water Discharge Permit For DOE Paducah Facility

EPA's Water Transfer Rule Opposed

EPA's Water Transfer Rule Opposed

Issuance of Permits For Industrial-Scale Hog Feeding Operations Challenged

Issuance of Permits For Industrial-Scale Hog Feeding Operations Challenged

Increased Ambient Monitoring Recommended In Comments On TMDL For Bayou de Chien

Increased Ambient Monitoring Recommended In Comments On TMDL For Bayou de Chien

KRC Opposes Weakening Of Recreational Use Protections In Ohio River; Urges Tighter Standards On Mixing Zones

KRC Opposes Weakening Of Recreational Use Protections In Ohio River; Urges Tighter Standards On Mixing Zones

Cabinet Urged To Require Co-Permitting and Better Controls on 9 Proposed Confined Hog Feeding Operations

Cabinet Urged To Require Co-Permitting and Better Controls on 9 Proposed Confined Hog Feeding Operations

KRC Comments On Wastewater Revolving Fund Rule

KRC Comments On Proposed Hog Farm Permits

KRC Comments On Proposed Hog Farm Permits

Supplemental Comments On Integrator Liability

Supplemental Comments On Integrator Liability

Model Confined Hog Feeding Operation Ordinance

Model Confined Hog Feeding Operation Ordinance

KRC Comments On Kramers Lane Groundwater Study

KRC Comments On Kramers Lane Groundwater Study

KRC Comments on Regulation of Animal Feeding Operations

Model Confined Swine Feeding Permit Developed

Model Confined Swine Feeding Permit Developed

KRC Opposes Weakening Local Ordinances On Confined Hog Feeding Operations

KRC Opposes Weakening Local Ordinances On Confined Hog Feeding Operations

KRC Requests More Public Review of MSD Plans To End Combined Sewer Overflows; Urges Caution Concerning Reuse of Lees Lane Superfund Site

KRC Requests More Public Review of MSD Plans To End Combined Sewer Overflows; Urges Caution Concerning Reuse of Lees Lane Superfund Site

PUBLIC NOTICE AND BETTER CONTROLS ON ALLOCATION OF WATER RESOURCES NEEDED

KRC Comments On 404 Permit For Maverick Steel

KRC Comments On 404 Permit For Maverick Steel

EPA sued for failure to finalize rule to protect Kentucky's waters from degradation

EPA sued for failure to finalize rule to protect Kentucky's waters from degradation

Landowner Succeeds In Obtaining Groundwater Protections In Pooling Order

Landowner Succeeds In Obtaining Groundwater Protections In Pooling Order

Citizens Coal Council and KRC Oppose Weakening of Stream Buffer Zone Rules

Non-Coal Revisions Rejected

Non-Coal Revisions Rejected

OSM Proposes to Weaken Stream Protections

OSM Proposes to Weaken Stream Protections

Comment period opens on proposed antidegradation rule for Kentucky's streams.

Comment period opens on proposed antidegradation rule for Kentucky's streams.

Proposed Revisions to the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definitions of "Fill Material" and "Discharge of Fill Material"

Proposed Revisions to the Clean Water Act Regulatory Definitions of "Fill Material" and "Discharge of Fill Material"

Preliminary Analysis of the Martin County Coal Waste Spill

Preliminary Analysis of the Martin County Coal Waste Spill

Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit Reissuance

Corps of Engineers Nationwide Permit Reissuance

Regarding the Final EIS for the Jackson County Lake Project

KRC Service Notice, Opposes Coal Slurry Pond

KRC Service Notice, Opposes Coal Slurry Pond