Our wells downstream from a ...

Our wells downstream from a group of farmers with no legal drainage outlet were polluted with the farm chemicals those farmers drained down into our aquifer. They had built two ditches behind two feedlots to drain their Wetland farm fields down the sinkhole that those two ditches dumped down. When the IDNR told them to close their sinkhole drain in 1993 after I had first complained, the tile that group had placed stoped working as the ditches set full of their field runoff water. So they used tubes to empty their tile illegally down into our drinking water. We thought since our water was no lomger full of manure runoff that it was safe and had had our wells retested. Because you cannot taste Anhydrous Ammonia fertilizer, Atrazine a herbicide, and cadmium lead in our drinking water like we had the manure runoff we drank the water after the Iowa DNR's Dale Adam's said the tests were ok when they weren't. The actual well tests were at lethal levels. The Corps of Engineer's in the Midwest is trying to close the formerly legally permited AG drainage wells to prevent this ever increasing state wide pollution of our aquifers with Atrazine, Anhydrous Ammonia fertilizer, or other man-made chemicals that react to the Chlorine added to our drinking water to treat for the CAFO biological fertilizer runoff. But the draining of fields down sinkholes is incresing causing more health issues and deaths Downstream because the financial gain is so large, and Iowa does not enforce its Drainage Laws or the Clean Water Act against renegade farmers.