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By Rob Newton Des Moines Water Works (Des Moines, IA) -- Many people in the Des Moines area have complained on social media that the water coming from their faucets has tasted swampy and smells like Sulphur. Des Moines Water Works Manager Ted Corrigan told WHO that Water Works treats the river water daily with powdered Carbon to help with the taste and smell. Corrigan says the quality of the river water changes often, and Water Works has to balance the changes in quality with the Carbon. He says that mix isn’t always perfect and if that’s a little off, and the river changes in quality, s...

Wisconsin Examiner American Rivers ranks the Raccoon River as the ninth-most-endangered in the country. (Photo by Perry Beeman/Iowa Capital Dispatch) Des Moines Water Works will face a “catastrophe” unless Iowa finds a way to reduce farm pollution in the Raccoon River, which last week was named as one of the nation’s most endangered, the utility’s CEO said. “It is clear, given the ammonia, phosphorus, and thousands of pounds of nitrogen that flow past our treatment plant, that adding any more nutrients to our watershed without addressing the water quality issues is...

Maxwell Bernstein | April 16, 2021 In a recording of Iowa PBS’s “Iowa Press” Mike Naig, the Iowa Agriculture Secretary, labeled the American Rivers choice for placing the Racoon River on the Endangered Rivers List as “propaganda,” according to Iowa Capital Dispatch. “That so-called report was a bit of propaganda, I think,” Naig said. “It was obviously a Washington D.C.-based advocacy organization. They can go out and say what they want to, but what they talked about related to Iowa is not based in fact.” In an interview with the Iowa Capital Dispatch, Des Moines Water Works...

/ Paddlers gather on the Missouri River. The organization American Rivers has named the Lower Missouri the second most endangered river in the nation this year due to flood management issues. The Lower Missouri and Raccoon Rivers are among the top 10 most endangered rivers in the country this year, according to the national advocacy group American Rivers. The organization is calling for concerted action at all levels of government to address flood management and the regulation of agricultural pollution, issues which pose threats to human health and safety. Lower Missouri named #2 most endange...

Runoff from livestock facilities and farm fields poses a "grave threat" to the Raccoon River, a major drinking water source for 500,000 Des Moines metro residents, placing it among the nation's 10 most-endangered waterways for 2021, a new report says. It's the first time the Raccoon River, which runs from northwest Iowa to Des Moines, has been placed on the annual Most Endangered Rivers list from American Rivers, an influential Washington, D.C., environmental advocacy nonprofit that has been producing the list since 1986. “We’re sounding the alarm because pollution in the Raccoon River i...