This Week's #MOwater News

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. 

MISSOURI
Counties Weigh CAFO Options
Counties weigh options as CAFO lawsuit heads to Missouri Supreme Court
News Tribune

Comment Period Ends Today for Eleven Point Plan
Comment period still open for Eleven Point River management plan
Joplin Globe

Volunteers remove several tons of trash from Meramec
Volunteers remove several tons of trash from Meramec River Watershed
eMissourian

Man Accused of Torching Ranger Station 
Man accused of torching ranger station on Current River
St. Louis Post Dispatch

New Missouri Paddlefish Record
Pittsfield man snags Missouri record for largest paddlefish
KHQA

MRR’s 1,000th Ton Milestone
Paul Pepper: Kristen Schulte, Missouri River Relief, "1,000th Ton Milestone"
KBIA

Consider Taking Part in Missouri River Relief
Consider taking part in Missouri River Relief
Leavenworth Times

NATIONAL
Midwest US has lost over 57 Billion Metric Tons of Soil
Midwestern US has lost 57.6 billion metric tons of soil due to agricultural practices, study finds (Update)
Phys.org

Decline in Mussels Indicator of Poor River Health
Decline in Freshwater Mussels an Indicator of Poor River and Stream Health in South Dakota
KXLG

New Scoring Scale Tracks Salt Pollution Effects
New scoring scale tracks the harmful effects of salt pollution in freshwater streams and rivers
Science Daily

Blueprint for a Resilient Lower Mississippi River
Our Blueprint for a Resilient Lower Mississippi River
Audubon.Org

Senate to Hear Tribe Water Leasing Bill
Senate committee to hear Colorado River Indian Tribes chairwoman's testimony on water leasing bill
Fronteras 

Missouri River Levee Nears Completion
Hope for the future: Missouri River levee construction nears completion three years after the 2019 floods
KETV