States, farmers seek clarity in new water pollution regulation

Julie Smith/News Tribune photo: 
This creek in north Jefferson City that runs into the Missouri River, contains farm land on both side of its banks and is a type of area to which Waters of the United States rules may apply.
Julie Smith/News Tribune photo: This creek in north Jefferson City that runs into the Missouri River, contains farm land on both side of its banks and is a type of area to which Waters of the United States rules may apply.

Federal water regulators and Missouri farmers want the same thing from a new rule set to be implemented later this month: Clarity.

The Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers recently proposed a new definition of waters that will be subject to federal pollution regulations under the Clean Water Act....

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