This has major environmental implications, including pollution runoff and the altering of important shorelines.

They say the developments will introduce sprawl to the banks of the Hudson, with its implications for traffic, visual blight and pollution runoff.

The bill, which would affect toxic releases from factories as well as pollution runoffs from city streets, now goes to the House floor.

The asphalt not only will damage riverbank ecology but will also increase the flow of pollution runoff into the river.

The man-made lake was in the Ouachita National Forest, so development around it, with the attendant pollution runoff, was limited.

On the West Coast, the increase reflected pollution runoff caused by the 1998 El Nino storms in Southern California.

Washington could do more to get states, localities and nongovernmental organizations to reduce pollution runoff, control overfishing, preserve wetlands and protect shorelines.

That agreement allowed the city to buy land around reservoirs and reduce pollution runoff.

More recently there has been concern about the pollution runoff from the Washdyke industrial area immediately to the west of the lagoon.

But progress is offset by the effects of pollution runoff from farms and suburbs and wetland loss through over-development.