§ 455E.8 — Powers and duties of the director

Iowa § 455E.8

• Jurisdiction: Iowa
• Title XI: NATURAL RESOURCES
• Ch. 455E: GROUNDWATER PROTECTION

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In addition to other groundwater protection duties, the director, in cooperation with soil
and water conservation district commissioners and with other state and local agencies, shall:
1. Develop and administer a comprehensive groundwater monitoring network, including
point of use, point of contamination, and problem assessment monitoring sites across the
state, and the assessment of ambient groundwater quality.
2. Complete groundwater hazard mapping of the state and make the results available to
state and local planning organizations by July 1, 1991.
3. Establish a system or systems within the department for collecting, evaluating, and
disseminating groundwater quality data and information.
4. Develop and maintain a natural resource geographic information system and
comprehensive water resource data system. The system shall be accessible to the public.
5. Develop and adopt by administrative rule, criteria for evaluating groundwater
protection programs by July 1, 1988.
6. Takeanyactionauthorizedbylaw, includingtheinvestigatoryandenforcementactions
authorized by chapters 455B and 459, subchapters I, II, III, IV, and VI, to implement the
provisions of this chapter and the rules adopted pursuant to this chapter.
7. Disseminate data and information, relative to this chapter, to the public to the greatest
extent practical.
8. Develop a program, in consultation with the department of education and the
department of environmental education of the university of northern Iowa, regarding water
quality issues which shall be included in the minimum program required in grades seven
and eight pursuant to rules adopted by the state board of education under section 256.11,
subsection 4.