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Des Moines Register Several hundred thousand gallons of manure spilled into a Lyon County creek Wednesday and, in a separate incident on the same day, another 10,000 gallons of manure also spilled into a Kossuth County creek that flows into the Des Moines River. In Rock Rapids, Bernie Baker of Rock Bottom Dairy reported spilling "several hundred thousand gallons of manure" after "an irrigation unit became stuck," according to an Iowa Department of Natural Resources news release Wednesday evening. The manure flowed through fields, which included cover crops or pasture, before it eventually ...

Maxwell Bernstein | April 14, 2021 American Rivers, a D.C. environmental advocacy nonprofit, ranked the Racoon River ninth on their Most Endangered Rivers list, according to the Des Moines Register. The Racoon River runs from northwest Iowa to Des Moines and provides drinking water for 500,000 Des Moines metro residents. The river was placed on this list due to about 750 animal feeding operations in the watershed that contribute to animal manure runoff. Second on the list is the Missouri River, which runs along Iowa’s western border. The Missouri River is on the list due to poor management,...

Snake River in U.S. Pacific Northwest named most endangered by environmental group

By Jason Taylor Feb 8, 2021 Des Moines, Iowa - The Des Moines City Council votes today on the sale of land near downtown for a soccer stadium complex. The site at Martin Luther King Jr Parkway at the Racoon River would be home to a 6,500-seat stadium for a USL soccer team. Plans also include a hotel to serve the nearby hospital and neighborhood as well as renovation of existing buildings. The owners of Kum & Go are behind the development, and have announced plans to spend $60 million on the project. The entire development area is proposed to consist of approximately 2.1 million square feet o...