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Clean Water Protection

Legislative and Regulatory Policy

Advocacy for our vision of clean water and healthy ecosystems for Rivers in Tennessee championed by the people who live here is part of Harpeth Conservancy’s DNA.

How Harpeth Conservancy is Working to Help Legislators and Regulators

Advocacy can take a number of forms.  Our work on permitting is one of the things we are most involved in.  Our work to reduce nutrient pollution on the Harpeth – and statewide — is one of our most important projects.  Sometimes, sadly, when other parties won’t comply with the law, we have had to resort to litigation.

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Find out about our work to limit phosphorus from Franklin’s Water Reclamation Facility.

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Find out about our successful resolution of the clean water act citizen suit.

We have been actively working collaboratively with many organizations to protect clean and adequate supplies of drinking water. 

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How we are protecting southern waters.

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How we helped assure adaquate river flows in the Harpeth

We are and have been involved for years in attempting to create recreational experiences that don’t overcrowd or overtax our treasured natural areas.  Our work on the Harpeth Blueway, for example, led to a statewide permit on stream access points. 

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Paddlecraft Regulations

And, of course, we encourage everyone to know where their federal, state, and local representatives stand on conservation issues and to let those representative know your views.

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Federal Representatives Scorecard

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State Representatives Scorecard

As President Theodore Roosevelt said over a century ago:

“The Constitution of the United States … grew in large part out of the necessity for united action in the wise of one of our natural resources. … [i]t is safe to say that the prosperity of our people depends directly on the energy and intelligence with which our natural resources are used. It is equally clear that these resources are the final basis of national power and perpetuity.”

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Latest Posts
Clean Water Protection

Harpeth Conservancy joins community to Protect the Piney River

Harpeth Conservancy, along with legal and engineering experts working for Friends of the Piney, reviewed PSC’s materials submitted to the Commission the week prior. Our overarching assessment—based on decades of working with local, state, and federal agencies’ permitting requirements to protect public health and waterways—was that PSC provided insufficient details to county decisionmakers about how the development will address severe flooding and flood safety, sewage treatment, and drinking water.

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March 6, 2024
Clean Water Protection

Duck River Permits

The Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation (TDEC) is asking for public comments on a series of proposed and expanded water withdrawals (by drinking water utilities) from one of the most biodiverse rivers in the world—the Duck River—which flows through Middle Tennessee.

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February 27, 2024
Clean Water Protection

Holiday Gift for Lick Creek

In a significant win for clean water advocates, the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC) made a crucial decision over the holidays to deny

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January 11, 2024

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