Soil erosion is the removal of soil by water, wind, ice or gravity and sediment deposition occurs when the rate of surface flow is insufficient for the transport of soil particles. Often, these two ...

The Environmental Protection Agency published a new rule this month that will require the construction, housing, and utility sectors to carry out "best management practices" in order to prevent ...

The city of Indianola and three companies in different parts of the state have been recently fined thousands of dollars by state regulators for failing to control soil erosion from construction sites.

Village of Lake Delton is spending nearly $2 million to protect area waterways from sedimentation and pollution by creating a regional detention facility to filter polluted water -- the first of its ...

A well-known residential development company based in Ankeny was recently fined $9,000 for failing to adequately contain soil runoff at a project site in Elkhart, according to the Iowa Department of ...

The suspension of construction in Franklin County over the weekend did not rise to that level, with Regn saying that state and Mountain Valley officials agreed informally that stabilization of the ...