Iowa Code 455E.8 – Powers and duties of the director
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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.
Terms Used In Iowa Code 455E.8
- Contamination: means the direct or indirect introduction into groundwater of any contaminant caused in whole or in part by human activities. See Iowa Code 455E.2
- Department: means the department of natural resources created under section 455A. See Iowa Code 455E.2
- Director: means the director of the department. See Iowa Code 455E.2
- Groundwater: means any water of the state, as defined in section 455B. See Iowa Code 455E.2
- Rule: includes "regulation". See Iowa Code 4.1
- state: when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories, and the words "United States" may include the said district and territories. See Iowa Code 4.1
- Use: means to operate, navigate, or employ a vessel. See Iowa Code 462A.2
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. Take any action authorized by law, including the investigatory and enforcement actions 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.