This Strategy is a science and technology-based framework to assess and increase efforts to reduce nutrients in Iowa surface waters and the Gulf of America. The Strategy also intensifies efforts to address nutrient related water quality problems in Iowa’s waters that negatively impact beneficial water uses. The Strategy defines eight strategic elements that emphasise State implementation of new and existing nutrient reduction practices and technologies: 1) prioritisation of watershed; 2) development of measures for increasing watershed improvement based upon a set of mutually agreed-to indicators; 3) reducing nitrogen and phosphorus discharges from wastewater treatment facilities through National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) permit process, animal feeding operations and manure management; 4) addressing the environmental and conservation needs associated with food and renewable fuels production, in order to: reduce nutrient transport to local and Gulf waters, encourage nutrient trading and innovative approaches, adopting new research and technologies approaches, increase private and public funding for science and technology, assist farmers and landowners in reducing nutrient transport to local and Gulf waters; 5) management of nutrients from storm water, septic systems, focusing on monitoring and inspections measures; 6) accountability and verification measures; 7) public reporting with watershed management plans; 8) implementation of technology-based nutrient reductions in the near-term, with continued assessment and development of suitable nutrient criteria as a long-term goal.
Estados Unidos de América · 2025-02-01