Large Number of Iowa Public Schools In Range Of Potential Pesticide Spray Drift
Little Interest In Buffer Zones, Or Other New Pesticide Application Rules In Iowa
We conservatively used the distance of 2000 feet to calculate potentially harmful proximities of croplands to Iowa public school buildings…89.6 percent of Iowa PK-12 public school buildings (1183 of 1321) are within 2000 feet of cropland. This means 444,559 students and teachers in…
By Elise Leasure, Sabine Martin and Katherine Mauss/IowaWatch and Cedar Falls Tiger Hi-Line Across the street and a few doors down from Meghan and Sean O’Neal’s Neola Street home in Cedar Falls, you can see a small, nondescript one-story brick…