2022 Early Hearing Detection & Intervention Virtual Conference
March 13 - 15, 2022
6/05/2017 | 10:00 AM - 10:15 AM | The Clean Water Act and Carolina and Delmarva Bays and Pocosins | 306C
The Clean Water Act and Carolina and Delmarva Bays and Pocosins
The Clean Water Act (CWA) is the primary federal law in the United States for protecting the quality of aquatic resources, including wetlands. A better understanding of connectivity within the aquatic ecosystem has become a key analytical component for those implementing the CWA or potentially affected by its requirements. Along the Atlantic Coastal plain, wetlands known as Carolina and Delmarva bays and pocosins have received attention from the scientific community after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decisions in SWANCC (2001) and Rapanos (2006), as they are often considered to be “geographically isolated.” This presentation will discuss the chemical, physical, and biological connectivity of Carolina and Delmarva bays and pocosins to larger downstream waters; the effects these wetlands have downstream; and the treatment of these wetland types under current regulations defining which waters are covered under the CWA.
- C34 Science and Policy
- C09 Wetland Ecology
- S10 Understanding and predicting the effects of climate change on lake and stream fishes x S15 Connectivity and Effects of Carolina and Delmarva Bays, Pocosins, and other Geographically Isolated Wetlands of the Atlantic Coastal Plain
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Presenters/Authors
Rose Kwok
(), U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, kwok.rose@epa.gov;
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