Raccoon River
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Corn farmers, in an international market, were chasing unsustainable yields, and so they pumped their ground full of chemicals and sent the runoff into the Raccoon River.
From The New Yorker • Jan. 10, 2019
They came to a head last year, when Des Moines Water Works sued over high nitrate levels in the Raccoon River, a source of drinking water for 500,000 central Iowa residents.
From Washington Times • Sep. 3, 2016
In Coon Rapids, a quiet town of 1,300 astride the Middle Raccoon River, I went searching for the farm that an agriculturally curious Soviet premier, Nikita S. Khrushchev, came to visit in 1959.
From New York Times • Jan. 15, 2016
Last week the sprawling Meredith plant along the banks of the Raccoon River was spreading out again.
From Time Magazine Archive
The city got back running water 12 days after its main filtration plant was inundated by the Raccoon River, a normally stodgy stream most people never heard of.
From Time Magazine Archive
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