The General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Kentucky finds as a fact that the polluting and befouling of the waters of the state has harmed, and is presently harming and injuring, the state’s abundant water resources, and, if unabated, will continue to harm such state water resources, and will endanger the health, safety, welfare and well-being of the general public, and the ability of the state to provide essential governmental services for the benefit of the public, and that such situation, if allowed to continue unchecked, will destroy the natural chemical, physical, and biological integrity of the waters of the state. Further, the conservation, development and proper use of the water resources of the state are of vital importance as a result of population expansion and concentration, industrial growth and technological advances. It is hereby found and determined to be essential to the preservation of the natural water resources, economic potential, and general well-being of the state that, to the maximum and greatest extent possible, the state should and must actively engage in a program of assistance to governmental agencies whereby infrastructure projects may be more economically provided so as to better serve the general public of the state.
Effective: March 31, 1988

Terms Used In Kentucky Statutes 224A.020

  • State: means the Commonwealth of Kentucky. See Kentucky Statutes 224A.011
  • Water resources: means all waters of the state occurring on the surface, in natural or artificial channels, lakes, reservoirs, or impoundments, and in subsurface aquifers, which are available, or which may be made available to agricultural, industrial, commercial, recreational, public, and domestic users. See Kentucky Statutes 224A.011
  • Waters of the state: means all streams, lakes, watercourses, waterways, ponds,
    marshes, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and all other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, which are situated wholly or partly within, or border upon, this state, or are within its jurisdiction, except those private waters which do not combine or effect a junction with natural, surface, or underground waters. See Kentucky Statutes 224A.011

History: Amended 1988 Ky. Acts ch. 124, sec. 2, effective March 31, 1988. — Amended 1974 Ky. Acts ch. 336, sec. 2. — Created 1972 Ky. Acts ch. 329, sec. 2.

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