Tuesday, December 20, a joint meeting was held in Lansing to discuss the ongoing issue of the debris field on the Mississippi River in the Big Slough area resulting from the flooding on the Upper Iowa River this past August and September. The meeting was coordinated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) as follow-up to an initial meeting held in September to address the current status in the cleanup effort.
Representation at the meeting included the following agencies and organizations: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Coast Guard, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Iowa DNR, Allamakee County Emergency Management, Allamakee County Board of Supervisors, Allamakee County Conservation, Allamakee County Economic Development, Friends of Pool 9, Northeast Iowa Resource Conservation and Development, and Congressmen Rod Blum’s office.