This Week's Highlights: Counties weigh CAFO options for ordinances, volunteers remove several tons of trash from Meramec, a new scoring scale for salt pollution, a blueprint for the Lower Mississippi River, tons of soil lost from the Midwest, levee repairs on the Missouri, mussels indicate poor river health, suspect in torching of the Round Spring Ranger Station, Missouri River Relief's 1,000th ton, and the comment period for the Eleven Point River plan ends today, March 25. 

This Week​'s Highlights: Scotland county votes to repeal county health/CAFO ordinance, DNR fines CAFO for pollution spill, memorial cleanup results, satellite imagery highlights green streets and healthy streams,  toxic algae effects and testing, avian influenza found in Missouri wild birds, a Mississippi River cruise from St. Paul to New Orleans, Kansas City's riverfront expands, and what to keep in mind for paddlefish season.

This Week's Highlights: ​MU to create new Missouri Water Center, controlling invasive plants, fuel in Hawaii's water, freshwater mussels proposed for federal protection, new plant in New Madrid focuses on cleaning up the environment, court strikes down law restricting public access in New Mexico, plans for dredged materials from the Mississippi River, and Missouri trout season opens