Missouri Water Quality (305b) Report
Some of the challenges to the state’s water protection efforts are easy to recognize. However, the 305(b) report provides a more detailed look at a wide variety of impacts to water quality all across Missouri.
Click on an area below to view maps that show streams and lakes impaired by point sources and discrete (localized) nonpoint sources. These maps do not show nonpoint source problems such as stream channelization, aquatic habitat degradation due to agricultural or urban storm water runoff, or wide-scale land use changes such as conversion of rural to urban lands.
