Welcome to OCWAP's Web site . . .
OCWAP works to protect Oregon’s waters from pollution, primarily by taking action to ensure Clean Water Act compliance in Oregon.
There are numerous entities (including indivuduals, corporations, and governments) across Oregon with coverage under permits issued pursuant to the Clean Water Act. These Clean Water Act permits allow for the discharge of pollution resulting from various activities to Oregon’s waters so long as discharges are in accordance with permit terms. (Permit terms can include things such as limits on the amount of pollution discharged, limits on when pollution is discharged, and pollution monitoring and reporting requirements.) All told, Clean Water Act permits cover discharges to Oregon’s waters from close to 4,000 different locations, and around 300 of these locations are in Lane County.
OCWAP, which is based in Eugene, is currently in the process of reviewing the government files (which usuallly include discharge monitoring results) for and visiting the sites of permitted discharges in Lane County. We compile “discharge profiles” for each discharge and post these profiles on this Web site, and take steps to obtain compliance where noncompliance is discovered during our file reviews and site visits.
We’re in the midst of a major period of transition with regard to our Web site. One consequence of this is that there currently are not a lot of discharge profiles here. With regard to enforcement, OCWAP sent out thirteen Clean Water Act notice of intent to sue letters to various dischargers in late October, along with another Clean Water Act notice of intent to sue letter to Jasper Wood Products in early January. Our focus with regard to the Web site at this point is to get information about all of the these enforcement actions up on the site, along with profiles of the dischargers that are the targets of these enforcement actions. Please bear with us during this period of transition.
