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Healthy Watersheds Protection

Frequent Questions About Healthy Watersheds

The Healthy Watersheds website contains a wealth of information about what EPA is doing with the Healthy Watersheds Program, its formation, its programmatic and technical documents, and healthy watersheds assessment and protection methods.  You can also browse an extensive collection of local, state, regional and national scale activities involving healthy watersheds assessment and protection around the nation.  Don’t have time for all that, but still curious?  You may want to look through our Frequent Questions About Healthy Watersheds for some of the more basic details that visitors often want to know.

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