Regulating runoff: a Minnesota company shows how pollutant trading can help improve water quality throughout the nation

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Shakopee, MN-based Rahr Malting Co is one of the companies involved in an EPA pilot program to test water pollutant trading. The company wanted to increase production at its malting plant which required the installation of a new waste treatment plant to control the added pollution. However, the river could not handle the extra load from the new waste treatment plant. Thus, the only way the company could discharge more pollution into the river was to have other sources reduce their discharges which it was able to do by providing funding for several pollution-reduction projects in companies situated upstream.

Grain industry, Rahr Malting Co.

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Undamning dams: despite bad press, dams are critical to the nation's clean water program

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Electric utilities can use pollutant trading to be able to comply with water pollutant limits. Dams used by hydroelectric power plants have been notorious for providing poor water quality with regards to pollution. However, water in such dams can be changed to enhance water conditions, particularly, with dissolved oxygen in tailwaters, to help other industries located downstream. Tennessee Valley Authority employed dissolved oxygen improvements at two of its dams to meet the permit requirements of one of its coal-fired stream plans located several miles downstream.

Electric utilities, Environmental aspects, Hydroelectric power plants, Dams, United States. Tennessee Valley Authority

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Charting a new course: pollutant trading can play a key role in improving water quality

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Pollutant trading can be used as a complement to the Clean Water Act and other regulations for controlling water pollution. It offers a way by which pollutant dischargers can establish further pollution cutbacks while avoiding the expenses of installing new discharge treatment equipment. By exceeding the pollutant limits, a company can earn pollution reduction credits which it can sell to other companies. Without a pollutant trading mechanism, a company would be content to maintain its pollutant levels close to the allowed limits.

Laws, regulations and rules, Pollution

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