The City of Indianola was mandated by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (Iowa DNR) in May 2009 to remove all groundwater from the City’s Sanitary Sewer Collection system. In order to comply, the City implemented the Inflow & Infiltration Policy which is overseen by the Water Resource Recovery Department.
All four phases of the public repairs that were mandated have since been completed. Because of this, and the number of private services which were inspected and repaired, the Iowa DNR has deemed sufficient improvements have been made and lifted the mandate in 2014. The I&I policy remains in place, however, private I&I inspections will continue on an individual request basis at this time.
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