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Hormonal wells found in Wisconsin’s karst region; dairy farms possible source

By Kate Golden/Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism | December 16, 2013

TOWN OF LINCOLN, Kewaunee County — In one of the most intensively farmed parts of America’s Dairyland, where 29 percent of the county’s private wells test unsafe due to bacteria or nitrates, residents have a new concern: estrogenic well water.

Environment

Wetlands and the Water Works: Flowing off the farm and into the water supply

By Lauren Mills/ IowaWatch.org | November 1, 2012

Iowa is home to two rivers, the Cedar and Iowa rivers, voted as some of America’s most endangered rivers by the American Rivers organization. Over 180,000 people in the Cedar Rapids and Iowa City area depend upon the Cedar and Iowa rivers for drinking water, according to the organization’s Most Endangered Rivers publication.