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Compliance and Inspections Division of Water

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Support Resources for the Public and Permittees

The links below provide access to tools for the public to report Harmful Algal Blooms, make complain​ts, and to find contact information for local regional office staff. Additional links are provide​​​​​d to c​onnect the public and permittees to information about various types of inspections and tests that DOW performs​ to measure compliance for Dams, Combined Sewer Systems, Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems, Pretreatment, and Whole Effluent Toxicity.

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Moving water.

Citizen Concerns

Learn how to submit a complaint or concern with the Division of Water.

Purple-headed Sneezeweed, (Helenium flexuosum)

CMOM

Learn about Capacity, Management, Operation, and Maintenance (CMOM) Programs at Sanitary Sewer Collection Systems.

Muddy water exiting a round opening in a concrete headwall into a concrete channel.

Combined Sewer Systems and CSOs

Review the Combined Sewer Overflows (CSOs) program that contain untreated or partially treated human and industrial waste, toxic materials, and debris as well as stormwater.

Concrete block retention wall forming one side of a large retention basin with a rolling-hill landscape in the background.

Dam Safety

Learn about Dam Safety, construction and inspection specifics overseen by the Division of Water.

Division of Water inspector taking notes in a field book.

Field Operations

The Division of Water Field Operations Branch consists of ten regional offices located throughout the state and a central office in Frankfort. The regional offices fulfill an important role in the division’s mission to protect and restore the waters of the Commonwealth.

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Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4s)

Learn about the stormwater permitting Municipal Separate Storm Sewer Systems (MS4) Program.

Turbulent water overflowing from a vertical pipe into a vegetated wetland.

Pretreatment

Review the Pretreatment Program which conducts compliance inspections and approves local municipalities to perform permitting, administrative, and enforcement tasks for discharges into municipal Publicly Owned Treatment Works (POTWs).

Green harmful algal bloom

Report a Bloom

Review information on Harmful Algal Blooms and how to report blooms in your area to the Division of Water.

Euglena cysts

Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing

Discover topics related to Whole Effluent Toxicity Testing. Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) refers to the aggregate toxic effect to aquatic organisms and measure wastewater's effects on specific test organisms' ability to survive, grow and reproduce.

Division of Water employees collecting samples at a wetland site

Report an Emergency

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Call the Hotline

24 hours a day,
7 days a week.

1-800-928-2380 or
502-564-2380​

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