Group Calls Bloody Run Creek Ruling Win for Water Quality

Water quality advocates say the effort to protect Bloody Run Creek in northeast Iowa from pollution has made progress after the DNR was ordered to reevaluate a feedlot water permit. 

The ruling by an administrative law judge could render the water permit invalid for Supreme Beef’s 11-thousand head feedlot in Clayton County. The president of the Driftless Water Defenders, Chris Jones, says the order could set a precedent for change to Iowa’s environmental protections.

He says it went unchallenged because it is law.

Jones says the next step is gathering signatures for a petition in Decorah. Bloody Run is one of the few streams in the state that supports the natural reproduction of trout.

story courtesy of Radio Iowa