The EPA has sent the following tool to indicate pollutants in our water. Although somewhat quirky, the map reveals areas across the nation.
The Water Quality Indicators (WQI) is a screening tool that makes it easy to identify pollutant hotspots based on water quality monitoring data from the U.S. Water Quality Portal Exit.
The WQI plots water monitoring locations and compares the values observed at these locations to a criteria or threshold. The color of the monitoring location shows whether the pollutant concentrations observed at the water monitoring location were above or below the threshold.
See the map here at this link.
Comments by OSFR historian Jim Tatum.
jim.tatum@oursantaferiver.org
– A river is like a life: once taken,
it cannot be brought back © Jim Tatum
