Wiese Slough Wildlife Area 9/10/2024 12:20:00 PM View Count 5280 Wiese Slough is one of those places where the locals go when they need to get their outdoors “fix.”
Air quality permits under review 8/1/2024 1:16:00 PM View Count 4510 DES MOINES – The DNR Air Quality Bureau has the following draft permits up for review. The permits help protect Iowans’ health and the air where we live.
DNR enforcement actions, published 2/3/2022 2/3/2022 2:04:00 PM View Count 1844 DES MOINES – DNR staff work with individuals, businesses and communities to help them protect our natural resources by complying with state and federal laws.
Opportunity for Public Comment on the Muscatine 1-hour SO2 Maintenance Plan 8/21/2021 1:22:00 PM View Count 1592 The DNR invites the public to provide comments on a draft plan to help redesignate the Muscatine area from nonattainment to attainment with the 1-hour sulfur dioxide (SO2) national ambient air quality standard. The DNR intends to submit the plan to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a revision to Iowa’s state implementation plan (SIP).
EPA Approves Iowa's Attainment Plan for Muscatine County 11/18/2020 4:23:00 PM View Count 2379 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved Iowa’s sulfur dioxide (SO2) attainment plan for Muscatine County. In collaboration with the DNR, facilities in the Muscatine area started reducing their SO2 emissions in 2015 to meet the federal health standard for SO2.
Spring community trout stocking starts March 27 - CANCELLED: Due to COVID-19 precautions 3/10/2020 11:46:00 AM View Count 9039 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources fisheries staff will release between 1,000 to 2,000 rainbow trout in 11 lakes across Iowa in March and April as part of its cool weather trout program.
Three men charged with illegally taking trumpeter swan 11/20/2019 4:16:00 PM View Count 10306 MUSCATINE COUNTY, Iowa -- On November 17, 2019, DNR Conservation Officers received a TIP that a trumpeter swan had been shot at Cedar Bottoms Wildlife Management Area in Muscatine County.
Fort Madison and Muscatine trout stockings re-scheduled for March 29 3/26/2019 1:08:00 PM View Count 2341 The trout stockings at Wilson Lake, Fort Madison, are scheduled for March 29 at noon and 10 a.m. at the Discovery Park Pond, Muscatine.
DNR postpones Fort Madison and Muscatine trout stocking 3/19/2019 11:49:00 AM View Count 2805 The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is postponing trout stockings scheduled for Friday, March 22 at Wilson Lake in Fort Madison, and at the Discovery Park Pond in Muscatine, due to heavy ice cover preventing fisheries staff from stocking trout.
Ongoing wastewater discharge occurring in Muscatine 11/2/2017 11:57:00 AM View Count 3361 MUSCATINE—Monday, the city of Muscatine reported the ongoing release of untreated wastewater leaking from a sewer force main near the intersection of Nebraska and Day streets.
Sodium hydroxide leak stopped in Muscatine 10/26/2016 1:45:00 PM View Count 3413 MUSCATINE – An unknown amount of sodium hydroxide sprayed into the Mississippi River Monday following the transfer of the chemical from a barge to K. A. Steel Chemicals in south Muscatine.
DNR Seeks Input on Plan to Reduce Sulfur Dioxide In Muscatine 2/25/2016 8:18:00 AM View Count 4450 MUSCATINE – The public is invited to make comments on a plan that would bring air quality in Muscatine into compliance with federal standards for sulfur dioxide.