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Quality Decisions Today’s Goal: To learn about nonpoint source pollution. To understand how decisions we make impact the environment around us.
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Quality Decisions Pollution is any harmful substance that contaminates the soil, water, or atmosphere.
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Quality Decisions Nonpoint source pollution is pollution that cannot be traced back to a single point.
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Quality Decisions The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) developed Best Management Practices (BMP) to reduce or prevent nonpoint source pollution.
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Quality Decisions Some examples of these Best Management Practices are:
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Quality Decisions Buffer Zones are anything that separate two other things.
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Quality Decisions In relation to nonpoint source pollution, buffer zones are areas of vegetation that separate the rest of the land from the water.
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Quality Decisions These buffer zones also help to:
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Quality Decisions We all contribute to nonpoint source pollution.
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Quality Decisions What are some ways you could help to prevent nonpoint source pollution in McCreary County?
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