456B.11  Agricultural drainage wells--wetlands--conservation easements.

The department shall develop and implement a program for the acquisition of wetlands and conservation easements on and around wetlands that result from the closure or change in use of agricultural drainage wells upon implementation of the programs specified in section 159.29 to eliminate groundwater contamination caused by the use of agricultural drainage wells. The program shall be coordinated with the department of agriculture and land stewardship. The department may use moneys appropriated for this purpose from the agriculture management account of the groundwater protection fund in addition to other moneys available for wetland acquisition, protection, development, and management.

Section History: Recent form

  87 Acts, ch 225, § 301

  CS87, § 108.11

  C93, § 456B.11


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