Forwarded by Jane Clark

CEDAR RIVER ASSESSMENT AND CEDAR LAKE TMDL MEETINGS SET

A series of public meetings to discuss an intensive monitoring program along
the Cedar River watershed above Cedar Rapids will be held June 7-8. The
session in Cedar Rapids on June 7 will also include a public hearing
regarding Cedar Lake and the work that is being done there on its impaired
water status.

The meetings on the Cedar River assessment and Cedar Lake will be at 7:30
p.m. Thursday, June 7 in the Iowa Room (Third Floor), in Iowa Hall at
Kirkwood Community College, 6301 Kirkwood Blvd. in Cedar Rapids.

A meeting on the Cedar River assessment will be at 2 p.m. Friday, June 8, in
the Charles City Library, 106 Milwaukee Mall, Charles City. A similar
meeting will be held at 7:30 p.m. that night in Room 107 of Tama Hall at
Hawkeye Community College, 1501 E. Orange Road in Waterloo.

The meeting regarding Cedar Lake will be to discuss the plan - known as a
TMDL or Total Maximum Daily Load - for addressing the problem of chlordane
in the lake.

The Cedar River assessment will be an extensive, two-year monitoring project
of the Cedar River and its tributaries. The goal is to be able to take the
information and prepare a TMDL for the Cedar River in 2005. The river is
impaired for nitrate and fecal coliform bacteria.

"Collecting this much data allows us to narrow down the parts of the
watershed where the highest influences may be coming from and focus our
attention in those places," said Bill Ehm, coordinator of the DNR's TMDL
program.

For more information, contact Kevin Baskins at (515) 281-8595.

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