http://www.iowawatch.org/2018/06/01/large-number-of-iowa-public-schools-in-range-of-potential-pesticide-spray-drift/
This interactive table maps all 1321 PK-12 public school buildings, with a direct link to each building’s Google map, where one can clearly see the school’s proximity to croplands.
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…
Good Neighbor Iowa is a statewide public education campaign to reduce children’s exposure to commonly-used lawn pesticides. It involves school districts, park managers, childcare centers and other community leaders who are demonstrating that it is possible and practical to manage…
Spray drift accidents in the news In Iowa, there were 413 reported pesticide misuse complaints, including pesticide drift spray drift, from 2010 to 2015. Most spray drift accidents don’t make the news. Here are the few incidents in recent years…