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Published on: 2/12/2006
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"To my knowledge, there is no state that is out of compliance like Iowa is," said Albert Ettinger, a Chicago lawyer who follows Clean Water Act cases and is representing Iowa environmental groups.
For years, Iowa's rules have assumed that some rivers were too polluted to save.The Clean Water Act requires the opposite assumption: That all rivers should be protected for recreation and aquatic life, unless research shows it can't be done.
Iowans missed out on a chance to get federal money for much of the sewer work because the state didn't set the required standards in the 1970s, when many other states did, Ettinger said.
"Iowa basically missed the gravy train," he said.