Stephen Gruber-Miller reports:
Iowa will direct $25 million to Central Iowa Water Works to upgrade its nitrate removal facilities as part of a statewide overhaul of Iowa's water quality funding.
The funding package will also boost the Iowa Department of Natural Resources' water quality monitoring, increase funding for wastewater and drinking water treatment grant programs and create a low-interest loan program for rural communities statewide seeking to upgrade their facilities.
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The expansion at Central Iowa Water Works comes in the wake of last year's unprecedented lawn-watering ban that affected the authority's more than 600,000 customers.
Central Iowa Water Works announced the ban as nitrate levels in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers spiked far above the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's 10 milligrams per liter limit.
Much of the nitrate content last summer came as a result of upstream runoff of fertilizer from farms, exacerbated by record rainfall. [emphasis added]
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