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Iowa Department of Natural Resources tracks water quality at all state park beaches all and updates the public weekly. Some city and county beaches are also included on the DNR's website.
The standard becomes the minimum regulatory requirement in a permit. If the national standard is not sufficiently protective at a particular location, then water quality standards may be employed, and the permit authority (state or EPA) will include water quality-based effluent limitations in the permit. [21]: 1–3
The revised standards of coastal recreation water quality criteria under section 304(a)(9) states that every state adjacent to coastal recreational waters must submit to the revised water quality criteria of pathogen and pathogen indicators set by the Administrator no later than 36 months after the Administrator's publications. [5]
As of 2016, the most recent Iowa's impaired water list was from 2014. [15] It contained 571 waterbodies with a total of 754 impairments. [15] Water quality problems continue unabated. In 2023, the state general fund eliminated $500,000 in funding of 66 water quality monitors; it was "reallocated" to other conservation programs. [19]
The news so far in 2024 has punctured any drought-fed illusion that Iowa is making meaningful progress on keeping water clean. Enforcement, incentives, individual effort, political will — it’s ...
The section requires states to identify water bodies that cannot meet water-quality standards without control of nonpoint sources. The states must then identify best management practices (BMPs) and measures for those impaired sources, along with an implementation plan. The EPA approves these plans, and if a state fails to develop a plan, the ...
Water quality laws govern the protection of water resources for human health and the environment. Water quality laws are legal standards or requirements governing water quality, that is, the concentrations of water pollutants in some regulated volume of water. Such standards are generally expressed as levels of a specific water pollutants ...
A southern Iowa town could become the first in the state to use wastewater to recharge its dwindling water supply Gripped in 3-year drought, south Iowa city weighs using wastewater to bolster ...