This Week's News: Improvements at Ted and Pat Jones Confluence Point State Park, the history of Gavins Point Dam, hundreds of volunteers expected at River Relief cleanup in Omaha, flood study seeks input, a world record paddling team paddles past Missouri, rare fish and a new learning center in Virginia, research on walleye growth rates, lack of water for Arizona farms, the USFS sued for overpopulation of horses in Arizona, contemplating the removal of hydropower dams, a deep blue spring, and kickoff of black bass season in Missouri on May 27

This Week's Highlights: A Water is Life summit in Iowa, facts about the boundary waters, rail merger increases hazmat transport along Mississippi, Clean Water Act protections for tribal waterways, men indicted for Clean Water Act violations in Puerto Rico, a Junior Ranger Day in the Ozark National Scenic Riverways, fishing the Gasconade, floatable Colorado waters, a new downtown riverfront park in St. Louis, a rock bass highlight, and crews continue work on the Chariton River bridge

This Week's News: Two Missouri crayfish receive Endangered Species Act Protection, critics decry bill amendment, a first look at Eleven Point State Park, city seeks public input on Lake Springfield, landowners protect property in Arkansas, national safe boating week, current and historic flooding, a sewage spill in Bull Shoals Lake, and the largest and oldest man-made dams in Missouri