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Excerpt of the Racoon River on the Map of Lewis and Clark's Track, Across the Western Portion of North America, 1814. The Racoon River was first documented on the 1814 map by Lewis and Clark, though the USGS references the name to a later map from 1843 named Hydrological Basin of the Upper Mississippi River based on field measurements by Joseph N. Nicollet during his Midwestern expeditions in ...
The following is a list of rivers and creeks in Iowa. The rivers are listed by multiple arrangements: those that form part of the boundaries of the U.S. state of Iowa ;
Bodies of water of Sac County, Iowa (1 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Scott County, Iowa (2 C, 1 P) Bodies of water of Shelby County, Iowa (1 C)
The Jordan Aquifer is the largest source of groundwater, extending from northeast Iowa to south central Iowa, and is ultimately the source of much of Iowa's agricultural and industrial water. In addition to pollution threats, the aquifer is threatened by overuse in well-source irrigation, ethanol production, and the diminishment of resupply ...
Bodies of water of Iowa by county (97 C) L. Lakes of Iowa (1 C, 24 P) R. Rivers of Iowa (10 C, 169 P) This page was last edited on 30 June 2014, at 01:29 (UTC). ...
The explosion in the number of high-density livestock facilities in Iowa has led to increased risk of rural water contamination and a perceived decline in air quality. [20] Other factors negatively affecting Iowa's environment include the extensive use of older coal-fired power plants, [21] fertilizer and pesticide runoff from crop production ...
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 ...
It then flows through the Iowa counties of Howard, Winneshiek, and Allamakee, and finally into the Upper Mississippi River near New Albin, Iowa. Along its course, it passes through the Iowa cities of Chester, Lime Springs, Florenceville, Kendallville, Bluffton, and Decorah. Its watershed comprises nearly 641,000 acres (2,590 km 2).