Water Quality

Several statewide water topics remain issues of concern for communities throughout Southeast Alaska. They include: mining impacts, the lack of a Tier 3 Waters designation process to protect our most outstanding national resource waters here in Alaska, the impacts of cruise ship dumping in our waterways, attempts by state and federal agencies to weaken the protections under the Clean Water Act, and PFAS — a category of toxic chemicals, embedded in many of the products we use, that have contaminated local sources of drinking water in some communities and cause serious health impacts. Click on the options below to learn more about these topics of concern and what you can do to address them.

Cruise Ship Dumping

Understand the impacts of cruise ship dumping in Alaska waters and what you can do about it.

Tier 3 Protections

The federal Clean Water Act allows Alaska residents to protect waters critical to their communities. But the state does not.

PFAS Contamination

Learn about PFAS contamination in Alaska waters and what you can do about it.