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Despite that concern, the DNR has approved Osceola's request to move about 4 million gallons from two city water bodies, Grade Lake and Q Pond, to West Lake, the reservoir that supplies the city's ...
And it is the focus of a formal request by the Sierra Club this summer to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to rule that the Iowa Department of Natural Resources has failed in its mission ...
Now three years into the drought, Osceola's water source is running low. An Iowa official thinks more communities may also have to conserve water. South central Iowa community asked to restrict ...
A water user's association was formed to promote the dam in 1916, and surveying began in 1921. In 1924 the states of Texas and New Mexico agreed to allow construction, and in 1926 President Calvin Coolidge approved the plan. In 1927 the Red Bluff Water Control District was formed to manage the project from seven existing water districts.
The Water Resources Development Act of 1986 (WRDA 1986) is part of Pub. L. 99–662, a series of acts enacted by Congress of the United States on November 17, 1986. [1]WRDA 1986 established cost sharing formulas for the construction of harbors, inland waterway transportation, and flood control projects and established rules therefor.
TxGIO was established by the Texas Legislature in 1968 as the Texas Water-Oriented Data Bank. In 1972, after four years of growth and diversification, it was renamed the Texas Natural Resources Information System (TNRIS). In 2023, the 88th Texas Legislature officially renamed TNRIS to the Texas Geographic Information Office. [2]
Texas' water infrastructure, such as dams, pipelines, and reservoirs, is aging and often not equipped to handle modern water management challenges. Leakage and inefficiencies exacerbate the problem.
Iowa water utilities are notifying thousands of homeowners they should replace lead pipes. But a big question remains: How will they pay for it?