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Raccoon River Pollution Threatens Drinking Water With Nitrates and Toxic Algae

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/ Published in Algae & Harmful Algal Blooms, Water Quality & Pollution
Farm Field Runoff
A national environmental organization labeled the Raccoon River one of the country’s most endangered because of toxic algae and nitrates. Des Moines Water Works called it a “catastrophe,” as the Raccoon is the major source for drinking water for a half-million Iowans. Des Moines Water Works, after dumping as much as $250,000 a year into
agricultural runoffdrinking waterfarm chemicalsharmful algal bloomsIowalivestock manurenitratesRaccoon Rivertoxic algaewater contaminantswater pollutionwater qualitywatershed management
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