The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is investigating darkly colored, murky water in a stormwater drainage ditch in Jefferson.  According to a press release from DNR, officials do not believe the discolored water reached the North Raccoon River, to which the ditch drains. No dead fish were observed and samples of the water were sent […]

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