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Water Quality Trading Program
Point to Point Trading
Sources that discharge from a discernable, confined and discrete route, such as a pipe, are “point sources” according to the Clean Water Act. Industries and wastewater treatment plants are examples of point sources. Point sources require a permit under the National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) in order to discharge pollutants.
Point to point
trading describes when one point source pays for another point source
in its watershed to achieve greater than required pollution controls and
reductions, rather than upgrade its own treatment.
