Central Iowa Water Works is removing nitrates and keeping levels below the EPA's threshold of 10 milligrams per liter. But what happens to those nitrates after they're removed from our water? KCCI's ...
For the first time on record, the Des Moines region's water authority has banned its 600,000 commercial and residential customers from watering their lawns, effective immediately, as high levels of ...
Denitrification bioreactors are engineered systems designed to remove nitrate from contaminated waters, particularly those influenced by agricultural practices. By utilising a solid carbon ...
High nitrate levels in Des Moines and Raccoon rivers prompted Central Iowa Water Works' first-ever lawn watering ban. The ban has reduced water demand by 30%, helping the utility avoid violating ...
Excessive use of fertilizers has fueled global food production, but it has also left behind a serious problem: nitrate ...
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 ...
Ecology is working with other state and local government agencies to reduce nitrate contamination so everyone in the Lower ...
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 ...
For decades the city of Cold Spring, Minn., has wrestled with pollution from farms fouling its drinking water. Sealing contaminated wells and digging new ones didn't fix it. Changes to farm practices ...
PRATT —Nitrate pollution has forced a central Kansas town to shut off two wells that make up nearly one-quarter of its total permissible water supply. The state of Kansas will help Pratt afford the ...
Lime and other particles settle to the bottom of one of the clarifiers as part of the water treatment process at the J Avenue NE Water Treatment Plant in northeast Cedar Rapids. Heavy rains after ...
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