IA DNR: EPC to Continue Meeting on Recreational Stream Uses April 16

Commissioners met April 8 in Carroll, but ran out of time to make decisions on 295 recreational stream use designations. If approved, the rule would reclassify 295 stream and river sections, granting protection for children's recreational use to 39 of them and protecting 241 for secondary contact such as wading, fishing, trapping or boating. The proposal would protect fish and aquatic life in all of the stream sections under consideration.

The meeting will begin at 1 p.m. in the third floor conference room of the Wallace State Office Building, 502 East Ninth Street.

Commissioners will not be taking public comments, since they accepted comments on the same topic at their regular meeting. However, the public is welcome to attend or call into the meeting.

To attend via conference call, dial (866) 685-1580 shortly before 1 p.m. Follow the prompts, entering the conference code of 5152818383, followed by the pound (#) sign. Call Jerah Gallinger at (515) 313-8909 if you have problems with access.

The proposed stream uses are available on the DNR Web site at www.iowadnr.com/water/uaa.html.

Look for more information about the agenda on the DNR Web site under Commissions and Boards at www.iowadnr.gov.

The members of the commission are David Petty, chair, Eldora; Charlotte Hubbell, vice chair, Des Moines; Suzanne Morrow, secretary, Storm Lake; Henry Marquard, Muscatine; Ralph Klemme, LeMars; Susan Heathcote, Des Moines; and Paul Johnson, Decorah. The director of the DNR is Richard Leopold.

Writer: Karen Grimes