Leaders in Iowa’s most populous county say they’ll funnel 200-thousand dollars to the Iowa Water Quality Information System to help keep a network of river and stream sensors operating next year.
The University of Iowa program lost state funding in 2023, and supplemental dollars from the Walton Family Foundation and ISU Nutrient Research Center are expected to run out next year.
Matt McCoy is chair of the Polk County Board of Supervisors. “While I personally would like to see the state and federal government play a big role in helping us fund these data sets,” McCoy says, “unfortunately, they’ve made decisions at the legislative and at the federal level to not do that.”…