Contaminated water from a fertilizer containment area at an Iowa farm was routinely pumped into a tile drain, poisoning a pond, creek and over 50,000 small fish, the state found.
The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has ordered a Coggon landowner to pay more than $20,000 after an investigation showed fertilizer pumped from the property killed more than 50,000 fish in Dry Creek last fall.
An 11,600-head cattle feedlot the focus of an ongoing lawsuit against the state and continued scrutiny from neighbors soon will have less state oversight because owners have satisfied a stormwater management permit that will expire Jan. 1.