What is the Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System?

In 1987, Congress amended the Clean Water Act to require a comprehensive nationwide program for addressing polluted stormwater. The National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) is the resulting program. The state assumed the authority to administer the NPDES program in Texas and the Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System (TPDES) is the resulting program.

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1. What is stormwater?
2. How do I report stormwater pollution?
3. How can grass and leaves be a pollutant since they are found in nature?
4. Why is stormwater quality important?
5. What agency regulates stormwater quality?
6. What is the Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System?
7. What does the Texas Pollution Discharge Elimination System permit require of the City of Coppell?
8. What Minimum Control Measures (MCMs) will the City of Coppell's program include?