For the Kids from Stormwater Management
For the kids
- You, yes YOU, can help keep our lakes and rivers clean.
- The Clean Water Act did a good job of reducing pollution from “point” sources, like a factory wastewater discharge pipe.
- Now, we need to control pollution from what is called “nonpoint sources.”
- A nonpoint source of pollution is one that doesn’t come from a single place, but washes off the landscape or blows in the wind and gets into lakes and rivers when it rains or the snow melts.
- A nonpoint source of pollution might be fertilizer from someone’s lawn that has washed off the grass after a rainfall and heads down the gutters to the storm drains.
- Or, maybe manure from a farm that runs off the field where it winds up in a lake or stream.
Resources
Additional resources
- Follow the Path to Cleaner Water from EEK! Environmental Educations for Kids
- Energy KIDS from U.S. Energy Information Administration
- Learning and Teaching about the Environment from United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)