The Linn County city has agreed to pay a $4,000 fine for not keeping sediment from sewer construction running off and entering a tributary of Hoosier Creek.
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The Linn County city has agreed to pay a $4,000 fine for not keeping sediment from sewer construction running off and entering a tributary of Hoosier Creek.
Several Eastern Iowa communities are passing ordinances requiring commercial properties to install backflow prevention systems. Without valves, a loss of pressure in public water lines could result in chemicals, wastewater or biological liquids flowing into drinking water systems.
The Eastern Iowa Airport will buy a residential property south of the airport because of concerns the groundwater there is contaminated by per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances, or PFAS.
Prairie Farms Dairy has agreed to pay $10,000 -- the maximum penalty the Iowa Department of Natural Resources may enforce -- for exceeding wastewater discharge limits 139 times between 2018 and 2022 at its cheese manufacturing facility near Monona.
The catch — the largest of its kind to date in Wisconsin and Minnesota — was made possible by tagging previously caught fish and throwing them back. Those fish were tracked to find and capture 323 silver, grass and bighead carp.
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Iowa’s year-to-date average precipitation is now 25.4 inches — about 8 inches below normal, according to the Iowa DNR.
The Eastern Iowa Airport’s governing board will consider buying a residential property valued at $770,000 because the home has a drinking water well with high levels of toxic chemicals found in firefighting foam used for decades at the airport.
A Stockton facility has agreed to pay a $5,000 fine for illegal dumping after a former employee allegedly buried underground at least 20 barrels, some containing unknown liquids.
Iowa City Transit had 45,009 more passenger trips this October than in October 2022, the city reported last week. Since launching Fare Free Iowa City in August, there have been 135,191 more trips compared to last year.
The newly scheduled hearing concerns ordinances in two counties that restrict how close the pipelines can be located to cities, houses, livestock facilities and other sites. Summit has argued they are so restrictive that they might prevent the project.
William Gutowski, an Iowa State University professor of meteorology, has worked with climate models for decades to study climate change
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