Federal regulators say the Iowa Department of Natural Resources should add half a dozen river segments to the state’s 2024 list of impaired waterways. The EPA says nitrate levels in sections of the ...
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources, which fought federal efforts to add segments of the Raccoon and Iowa rivers to its impaired waters list in 2024, now is including them. The Iowa DNR said ...
Two environmental groups are challenging the federal government's decision last summer to pull seven segments of the Cedar, Des Moines, Iowa, Raccoon and South Skunk rivers from the state’s impaired ...
DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Environmental groups penned a letter to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency urging the federal agency to maintain its previously rescinded ruling that ...
Even as Central Iowa Water Works has lifted a lawn-watering ban prompted by elevated levels of nitrate pollution in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers, high bacteria levels in the state's waterways ...