East Petersburg Borough has received permission to take its nitrate-removal system offline and has sold the system's nitrate-removal resin to Akron Borough, Herb Mattern Jr., public works ...

Iowa’s drought of more than three years has significantly reduced the amount of farm fertilizers in the state’s streams, but that doesn’t guarantee a complete nitrate reprieve for the Des Moines metro ...

DES MOINES (AP) -- A new cleanup system could help end complaints over Des Moines officials dumping nitrates removed from public water supplies back into the river that some southern Iowans must then ...

ALSO KILLED. THEIR NAMES HAVE NOT YET BEEN RELEASED. NEW TONIGHT THE FACILITY THAT HELPS REMOVE NITRATES FROM SOURCES OF DRINKING WATER FOR CENTRAL IOWA WATER WORKS IS OFF AFTER 55 DAYS. KCCI CHIEF ...

KEEPING OUR DRINKING WATER SAFE. CENTRAL IOWA WATER WORKS NITRATE REMOVAL FACILITY IS A KEY TOOL FOR KEEPING OUR DRINKING WATER SAFE, AND IT’S NOW IN ITS 63RD STRAIGHT DAY OF OPERATION. THESE VESSELS ...

The period for public comment on Iowa's impaired waterways report closes this week. The federal Clean Water Act requires the ...

It’s been a wet spring across Iowa, but water utilities in the Des Moines area are asking people to save water because nitrate levels are high in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. The rivers are a ...