We will also hold a raffle featuring items from local businesses including Great Outdoor Provision Company, Seabird, Luna Caffe, Gravity Records, and more!

The Clean Water Act was a first-of-its-kind environmental federal legislation that came about during the birth of the American environmentalism movement, along with the Clean Air Act, the Endangered Species Act, and the Environmental Protection Agency. It established precedent-setting pollution standards and provides legal standing to citizens allowing them to advocate directly on behalf of their waterways.

To date, it has made meaningful strides in cleaning American waterways and helped us achieve significant restoration, protection, and cleanup of severe pollution problems. Unfortunately, there has been an erosion of the Act’s strength and it has never been fully implemented and enforced as Congress intended.