OK new distance rules for livestock operations
Balance interests of producers, neighbors.
REGISTER EDITORIAL BOARD
Bitterness between livestock producers and neighbors is a fact of life in
rural Iowa. That's because state law puts few restrictions on where
animal-feeding operations can be located, even prohibiting county zoning of
the industry. Homeowners are stuck with the stench and health concerns. When
a big confinement is proposed near a tourist attraction, the only recourse
is public protest.
Legislators are considering a bill to address some of these problems, and
they should pass it, while realizing more needs to be done.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/OPINION03/703150374/1110
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Zoo plan wins board's preliminary approval
About 20 people address conservation officials on the project Wednesday,
expressing a mix of views.
By JASON CLAYWORTH
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
The latest Blank Park Zoo expansion proposal gained preliminary approval
from Polk County conservation officials Wednesday, placing the deal on track
to become finalized within the next month.
The heavily discussed plan centers on the zoo's request to move the majority
of a $50 million expansion onto about half of the 120-acre Fort Des Moines
Park, which is next door to the current 22-acre zoo.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS05/703150404/-1/archive
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Culver replaces 4 environmental commissioners
By PERRY BEEMAN
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
Iowa Gov. Chet Culver has nominated four new state environmental
commissioners, including two with farm backgrounds and two with ties to
environmental groups.
Culver chose to replace all four commissioners up for reappointment: Lawyer
Donna Buell of Spirit Lake, farmer Jerry Peckumn of Jefferson, organic
farmer and soil scientist Francis Thicke of Fairfield and former Iowa
Citizen Action Network leader Lisa Davis Cook of West Des Moines.
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS10/703150402/-1/archive
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Flying J faces cleanup costs, fines following pollution leak
Officials want maintenance records, ponder penalties
By JARED STRONG
REGISTER STAFF WRITER
Efforts by Flying J Travel Plaza to prevent more petroleum-contaminated
water from reaching Walnut Creek have satisfied Clive city officials.
But two questions remain more than a week after officials discovered the
truck stop's detention basin near Interstate Highway 35/80 leaked an unknown
amount of polluted water into the creek:
http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070315/NEWS/703150313/-1/archive
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Neila Seaman, MPA
Director
Sierra Club, Iowa Chapter
3839 Merle Hay Road, Suite 280
Des Moines, IA 50310
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