DES MOINES – Gov. Kim Reynolds signed the following bill into law on Wednesday:
Senate File 512: an Act relating to water quality by amending the wastewater treatment financial assistance program, creating a water quality infrastructure fund, establishing a water quality financing program, providing for cost-share programs for infrastructure on agricultural and urban land under the water quality initiative, creating a water service excise tax and a related sales tax exemption, making transfers and appropriations and other changes properly related to water quality, and including effective date provisions.
“I am proud that the first piece of legislation I signed as governor was a water quality bill,” Gov. Reynolds said. “This law is a significant step in the right direction and should ignite a continuing conversation as we work to make a positive impact on water quality in Iowa.”
Senate File 512 passed the Iowa House of Representatives 59-41 on January 23, 2018, and the Iowa Senate 31-19 on April 19, 2017.
Old worth and mitchell counties even pay the cost of tiling
and ditching to drain the pig shit into our underground water supply and streams – couple of these elected officals even own these tiling companies. No too honest but what do they care big brother companies (some foreighn owned) could care less if they kill Iowans if they can make a buck after paying off most of our elected crooked officials. GOOD READ ! – Adam Lack/Mitchell county (Iowa unsolved murders)
Water tax ? What next – those communities south of Eagle Grove are going to need it in the future – That enterprise could become an environmental nightmare
Let’s look at the facts the water ways are ruined, if the powers that shouldn’t be were genuine about water quality they would never have allowed CAFOS 40 plus years ago, the top water biologist said Iowa’s water is ruined he went on to say it wouldn’t matter if 50 billion dollars was spent on it a year it can not be repaired, the article was in the Des Moines reg.
Just more fantasy, $ can’t fix everything, prevention was the key, and that key was willfully ignored.
They never should have allowed tiling. It dumps all that pollution straight into the water ways with no filtration. It also cause the floods we have been seeing more frequently.