What is the Clean Water Program?
More than 20 years ago, the federal Clean Water Act became law, prohibiting the discharge of pollutants into surface waters by private and public industries. As a result, industrial pollution of America’s waters is largely a thing of the past. But smaller amounts of pollution, much of it carried by storm water runoff, continue to harm our waters each day. This runoff is more difficult to identify and eliminate. In fact, storm water runoff may be our most severe environmental problem on Oahu. The City and County of Honolulu established the Clean Water Program to eliminate this problem.
