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This is a list of Superfund sites in Kentucky designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Aquifers of the United States Withdrawal rates from the Ogallala Aquifer.. This is a list of some aquifers in the United States.. Map of major US aquifers by rock type. An aquifer is a geologic formation, a group of formations, or a part of a formation that contains sufficient saturated permeable material to yield significant quantities of water to groundwater wells and springs.
USGS Hydrologic Unit Map – State of Kentucky (1974) See also List of rivers in the United States ... Search. Toggle the table of contents. List of rivers of ...
The Salt River is a 150-mile-long (240 km) [2] river in the U.S. state of Kentucky that drains 2,920 square miles (7,600 km 2).It begins near Parksville, Kentucky, rising from the north slope of Persimmon Knob south of KY 300 between Alum Springs and Wilsonville, and ends at the Ohio River near West Point.
The Kentucky Energy and Environment Cabinet is a government organization in the US state of Kentucky. [1]It houses the state's Department for Environmental Protection, Department for Natural Resources, Office of Energy Policy and the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves.
The general rule is that the first person to "capture" such a resource owns that resource. For example, landowners who extract or “capture” groundwater, oil, or gas from a well that bottoms within the subsurface of their land acquire absolute ownership of the substance even if it is drained from the subsurface of another’s land. [2]
The Green River is a 384-mile-long (618 km) [3] tributary of the Ohio River that rises in Lincoln County in south central Kentucky.Tributaries of the Green River include the Barren River, the Nolin River, the Pond River and the Rough River.
Flood Inundation Maps for a 6.5-mile Reach of the Kentucky River at Frankfort, Kentucky United States Geological Survey; U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Kentucky River "Kentucky, a river of Kentucky" . Collier's New Encyclopedia. 1921. "Kentucky. A river in the State of Kentucky" . New International Encyclopedia. 1905.