The Agency will make robust use of our authority to restore threatened treasures such as the Great Lakes and the Chesapeake Bay, to address
our neglected urban rivers, to strengthen drinking - water safety programs, and to reduce pollution from non-point and industrial dischargers.
It's a place to learn about initiatives like the Vermont Sail Freight Project, in which a home - built sailing barge, the Ceres, is beginning to connect farmers in Vermont with
urban food buyers in Brooklyn, expanding the regional «foodshed,» as some describe farm - to - table networks, by using
neglected canal and
river trade routes.