Environmentalists Ask EPA For Emergency SDWA Action On Nitrates In Iowa

Environmentalists are asking EPA to take immediate, emergency action under the Safe Drinking Water Act (SDWA) to protect communities in the karst region of Northeast Iowa from nitrate contamination, a move that if granted would expand Region 5’s recent order requiring officials in neighboring Minnesota to limit the agricultural contaminant. Food & Water Watch (F&WW) and Iowa Environmental Council led a coalition of 13 environmental groups in an April 16 petition calling for EPA to invoke its emergency SDWA authority...