Focus on metal finishing and P2 by Mary Werner

Metal finishing wastes: why are we concerned? by SA Rehder, PE

NY's Strategic Goals Program for Metal Finishers by DJ Lucia, PE

Anoplate: stewardship, involvement, success by MF Stevenson, ME Florczykowski

SGP—a municipal perspective by P Heckler PE and R LaGrotta PE

Governor's awards for pollution prevention by C Montes

Direct discharge of treated metal finishing wastewater by JM Harrington PE

Metal products and machinery, proposed rule by V Wong

Pollution Prevention Unit works with metal finishers by C O'Brien

Metal finishing wastes: why are we concerned? by M Gampel

Wild and scenic

Voices from the field

People and places

Partnering by A Zabinski

Executive director's message by P Cerro-Rehill

Winter 2000 — Vol. 30, No. 4

Wild and scenic

During the last session of Congress, parts of eight rivers in nine states were newly designated as "wild and scenic":
 
White Clay Creek, Wilmington and Dover, Del. and Philadelphia, Pa.
Wekiva River, Jacksonville, Fla.
Sudbury, A River, Mass.
Wilson Creek, N.C.
Lamprey River Extension, N.H.

The rivers of Emerson, Thoreau, and the American Revolution (Sudbury, Asabet and Concord), and the river that completes the run from the headwaters to the Chesapeake Bay (the Lower Delaware) now are protected. A study bill about to be signed will designate the Taunton River near Boston as Wild and Scenic.

The Wild and Scenic Rivers Act (1968) preserves the natural condition of some important river resources. To qualify, a river must be in a free-flowing condition and must be deemed to have one or more "outstandingly remarkable" scenic, recreational, geologic, fish and wildlife, historic, cultural, or similar values. Currently, 159 rivers have received this federal protection measures.

The effort to protect these newly added rivers took tremendous grass roots support that sprang from the desire to benefit local communities. "Particularly with this Congress, there had to be local support. Nobody was going to go over anybody's head to designate a river into the national system," said Kristen McDonald with American Rivers. "In many cases, local plans were already in place to protect the rivers. This is a totally new way of going about conservation."
 

Additional information about wild and scenic rivers is available from the National Park Service.

Coast chart of the Delaware River, segment of Penn's Neck to Philadelphia (1900). From the image archives of the Historical Map & Chart Collection. Office of Coast Survey / National Ocean Service / NOAA.