Iowa DNR EcoNews

The following are excerpts from news releases from the Iowa DNR EcoNews wire. Interested parties may sign up to receive these reports to your own email address by sending a blank email to: join-newsgroup@lists.ia.gov Note: These emails will include other Iowa DNR news, but amazingly much of it has to do with Iowa CAFOs, which speaks of the concerns and problems that DNR deals with.

DNR ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
31 july 2008

DNR INVESTIGATES O'BRIEN COUNTY FISH KILL
22 july 2008

CONSENT ORDERS
10 july 2008

SHEEP MANURE SPILL INVESTIGATED NEAR HARLAN
2 July 2008

LIVESTOCK PRODUCERS SHOULD CHECK MANURE STORAGE
SEPTIC HAULERS MAY NEED ALTERNATE SITES FOR DISCHARGING DNR
LIVESTOCK MANURE NOW OK FOR SOYBEAN FIELDS
13 June 2008

MANURE APPLICATORS, PRODUCERS NEED TO INSPECT EQUIPMENT AS FAILURES CAUSE FISH KILLS
16 May 2008

ANIMAL CONFINEMENT HAS DISCHARGE TO SOUTHEAST IOWA STREAM
16 May 2008

MANURE APPLICATORS, PRODUCERS NEED TO INSPECT EQUIPMENT AS FAILURES CAUSE FISH KILLS
16 May 2008

LIMITED MANURE RELEASE IN JASPER COUNTY
2 May 2008

DNR ENFORCEMENT ACTIONS
20 March 2008

"While CAFOs clearly are profitable, they are only profitable because so much of the cost and damage is externalized onto the environment, neighbors and wildlife. The monitoring, supervision, clean-up, restitution, fines are not happening, thus the true cost of CAFOs never find the way onto the balance books." Talking point from the CAFO Conference.