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How one small watershed got off Iowa's list of hundreds of water impairments

Hundreds of Iowa’s rivers, lakes and streams do not meet the Environmental Protection Agency’s water quality standards and are impaired under the federal Clean Water Act. While it is very easy for a body of water to be added to this list, it is harder to get one removed. Landowners in one small watershed in eastern Iowa are celebrating getting off the list this year. ....

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