The Iowa Department of Natural Resources has submitted their three-year progress report for their five-year work plan agreement with the EPA. DNR leaders say their plan is to work on cleaning up the state’s waters. Iowa Citizen’s for Community Improvement disagrees. ICCI organizer Jess Mazour says many of the confined animal feeding operations don’t even have a Clean Water Act permit.

She says there are more than 5,000 CAFOs not accounted foror in the DNR work plan. Mazour also says the EPA needs to take over from the Iowa DNR to enforce the Clean Water Act and bring those CAFOs in line.

Mazour says all CAFOs should have to have a Clean Water Act permit before they’re allowed to operate.

Mazour says Iowa is going through a water crisis with a record number of waterways polluted.