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Residents of Little Flat Creek, DNR officials square off at meeting Hoke said he did not know why property owners along the creek were not contacted. He said the department has learned lessons from this project and that in the future it will do a better job of notification.
The DNR program does not require the stream surveyor to contact or interview local residents about their use of the stream. Others at the meeting questioned the purpose of the program. Morrison said the Missouri Clean Water Commission did “not want to go overboard on protection.’’ The department has said that most of the streams are so small they do not flow in the summer, and if they are not used for swimming and other full-body-contact recreation, then it might be a waste of resources to regulate them with regard to bacteria. Jim Riedel, a resident of Eagle Rock where the DNR has permitted a large chicken CAFO along Roaring River, said the condition of Missouri’s streams and rivers are not improving, but are in a state of decline. He questioned why the department would take steps that he views as encouraging that decline. “Why are we even talking about declassifying?’’ he asked. Others said the DNR, instead, should “grow a spine and crack down on these polluters before we lose our rivers and lakes.’’ One person suggested a statewide moratorium on the construction of new CAFOs, alleging that the DNR cannot regulate those in place now. The meeting, which lasted more than two hours, is one of six across the state that were organized by the DNR in response to what it said was “misinformation’’ about the purpose of the bacterial exemptions. Comment period The DNR has extended the comment deadline on the stream issue to Aug. 31, officials said. 
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