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Point source pollution

Pollutant that enters the environment from an easily identified and confined place.

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Nonpoint source pollution

Pollutants entering the environment from many places at once; difficult to identify one individual source.

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Examples of point source pollutants

Animal waste runoff from a CAFO, emissions from a smokestack of a coal power plant, BP oil spill.

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Examples of nonpoint source pollutants

Urban runoff, pesticides sprayed on agricultural fields, carried by wind and washed off into bodies of water.

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What are the primary areas polluted by nonpoint sources from large watersheds?

Estuaries and bays.