Our Iowa Aquifers have some ...

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Our Iowa Aquifers have some farmers using "French Drains" or illegal AG drainage wells or ditches or man made flood channels directing farm drainage to Aquifer Recharge Areas thus causing some high levels of 2 very water soluble CAFO and Anhydrous Ammonia Nitrogen fertilizers in our Source Waters Downstream.  Anhydrous Ammonia draws Arsenic into our Source Water for wells Downstream and contributes to drawing Lead from our water distribution lines.  When farmers Downstream from polluting farmers are told by the DNR to Chlorinate for the CAFO bacteria, we caused our own health issues to be worse as Chlorine and the high Ammonia Nitrogen as N levels developed Trihalomethanes that kill.  The Lead and Arsenic levels are increasing in wells Downstream after the levels of Anhydrous Ammonia wash through to the Gulf where the Dead Zones are growing.  The US has to stop the Point Source Polluting farmers and support the Farmers who have spent their lives, and some who were murdered for following our Drainage Laws and the Clean Water Act.  Proud to be Adam Lack's Mom and Gary Lack's wife, two killed because they tried to stop one Plume that has killed more...