This Week's Highlights:  The Supreme Court secures Eleven Point State Park, low river and lake levels, efforts to keep barges rolling, charting a course to preserve water, a turtle study from an Ozark stream, public health advisories for Kansas lakes, and how a little mussel could help save a marsh

Hello water educators! Check out this new and revised diagram of the water cycle, recently released by the USGS, showing the human influence in the water cycle.

Credit: Hayley Corson-Dosch/USGS VizLab

Association Spotlight...The Clean Water Coalition and Southwest Missouri Stream Team #5925

If you missed our newsletter last week, we were busy planting trees in southwest Missouri with the Land Learning Foundation, Southwest Missouri Stream Team #5925, The Nature Conservancy, and Neosho high school students. Over 1,600 trees of 37 species were planted as part of an ecological restoration project at the confluence of Hickory and Shoal Creeks! Find out more about the project at ShoalCreekWatershed.org, or follow the Shoal Creek Watershed Facebook page.

Local Stream Team, the Southwest Missouri Stream Team #5925 is part of The Clean Water Coalition Stream Team Association. They partner with area Stream Teams on cleanups of the Elk River, Shoal Creek, and its tributaries in our state's most southwest counties! The Clean Water Coalition is one of the newest Stream Team Associations in the state, joining Stream Teams United in 2020. If you are a Stream Team interested in partnering with more Stream Teams in your area, and may want to form an Association in your watershed, email info@streamteamsunited.org.

• November 12 - Restoration Workday at the Heartland Overlook Preserve, KC
• November 15 - Illegal Dumping Speaker Series
• November 16 - Meeting for 2022 303(d) Impaired Waters List
• November 21 - PFAs Workgroup meeting
• November 30 - Due date for comments for Missouri general CAFO permits
• December 1 - Water Protection Forum
• December 15 - Application Deadline for AmeriCorps start date of January 17
• January 2 - Registration begins for Paddle MO 2023!

Advocacy Updates and Opportunities 

CAFO (Confined Animal Feeding Operation) Missouri State Operating Permits - General Permit Comment Period. Public comments due by November 30th.

• Draft General Permit MOG01000 comments due Nov. 30
• Draft General Permit MOGS1000 comments due Nov. 30

PFAs Update: Missouri DNR announced the availability of the PFAS website and the Missouri PFAS viewer tool, to view results of public drinking water samples in Missouri. What are PFAs? Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS) are a group of manmade fluorinated chemicals that have been used in industry and consumer products since the 1940s because of their ability to repel both water and oil. These chemicals can be found in products such as non-stick cookware, carpet, clothing, furniture fabrics, waxes, cleaning products, some firefighting foams and in industrial applications.

November 21 - PFAs Workgroup meeting, 2-4 PM

Missouri Nutrient Trading Program Open Comment Period 

Missouri 2022 Section 303(d) Impaired Waters List Public Notice. Public comment period open until January 18, 2023.

Public Meetings - November 16 and December 13, 2022

Public Hearing - January 11, 2023