Sand and gravel soils are most conducive ... exceeded the health-based levels. When private drinking water wells were separated from the pack, 13 percent exceeded the health standards or guidelines.

Drinking water is harvested from the earth, the sky, the seas. We worry about having enough of it and how to keep it clean, spending millions on infrastructure. But how do Iowans get their ...

including the Northeast Gravel pit. Discovery of the contaminated drinking water near the House Street dumping site was first made this spring. Wolverine is paying for drinking water well testing ...

Still, the move is sending ripples of concern through Ann Arbor Township residents who depend on their wells to drink, wash dishes and water gardens and are now harboring fresh fears the mine ...

which means about 70 percent of the current drinking water is well water. The ground water from the wells still comes from the river, but Gramling said the abundance of sand and gravel serves as a ...

Tawndy Byrd lives immediately downhill from the Knife River mine, and she wants to know what happened to her well ... of gravel mining on groundwater that serves as their drinking water supply.

I appreciate the Jan. 2 editorial (“County gravel-mining policy poses challenges ... who like everyone in Clark County rely on ground water. Our wells rely on an alluvial layer that the ...