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There is hereby established within the department of administrative services a state records program, which shall be under the control and supervision of the director of administrative services or the director's appointed deputy.

Land uses such as agriculture, industry, and mining can impair water quality. Urban runoff from the many large communities in the Ohio River Basin is also a major cause of degraded water quality. For example, paved areas convey water quickly, transporting pollutants directly to streams and rivers.

Section 6111.01 | Water pollution control definitions. As used in this chapter: (A) "Pollution" means the placing of any sewage, sludge, sludge materials, industrial waste, or other wastes in any waters of the state.

(A) Except as otherwise provided in division (B) of this section, in section 6111.14 of the Revised Code, or in rules adopted under division (G) of section 6111.03 of the Revised Code, no municipal corporation, county, public institution, corporation, or officer or employee thereof or other person shall provide or ...

(E) "Waters of the state" includes all streams, lakes, ponds, marshes, watercourses, waterways, wells, springs, irrigation systems, drainage systems, and other bodies or accumulations of water, surface and underground, natural or artificial, regardless of the depth of the strata in which underground water is located, ...

The most common contaminant is polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), followed by mercury. A few waters contain fish whose flesh is contaminated by dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane (DDT), mirex, or hexachlorobenzene; data show no streams or lakes with fish contaminated by lead.