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Midwest Agriculture Water Quality Partnership

This partnership aims to continually advance soil health, reduce nutrient loss, and improve overall water quality. Conservation practices implemented through the MAWQP also provide benefits like diversified wildlife and pollinator habitats, reduced erosion, carbon sequestration, and increased recreational opportunities.

The Rain Campaign

The Rain Campaign shares and implements a variety of rainscaping best practices in Central Iowa. These practices are designed to help control flooding, mitigate soil erosion, and maintain water quality.

North Raccoon Soil and Water Outcomes

This project involves connecting upstream and downstream partners to improve overall water quality of the North Raccoon Watershed through cover crops, no-till, bioreactors, saturated buffers, oxbow restorations, and constructed wetlands.

Iowa Systems Approach to Conservation Drainage

This approach is to bring innovative solutions to the most intensely drained land in the state. With goals of profitability and sustainability, the ISACD uses strategic funding and in-field practices to improve water quality, reduce flood risk, manage greenhouse gas emissions, and protect source water.

Residential
Central Iowa, Northeast Iowa, Northwest Iowa
All Counties
Environmental Health, Funding

Stormwater Facts

Waukee considers stormwater as precipitation from rainfall or snowmelt that flows across the ground, typically pavement like sidewalks, driveways, and roads. This means that the water is not absorbed into those surfaces and can cause drainage and flooding issues.

The Boone River Watershed: How Bioreactors Make a Difference

Farmers are stewards of the land, and in Iowa's Boone River watershed, they're working with The Nature Conservancy to improve water quality and wildlife habitat, while maintaining productive yields.

Farmers, Landowners
Central Iowa, Northwest Iowa
All Counties
Bioreactors, Local Support, Management Practices, Water Quality
Bioreactors, Water Quality, Watersheds

CREP for Producers

Find out more about Conservation Reserve Enhancement Programs in your area.

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Region: Central Iowa

Midwest Agriculture Water Quality Partnership

The Rain Campaign

North Raccoon Soil and Water Outcomes

Iowa Systems Approach to Conservation Drainage

Stormwater Facts

The Boone River Watershed: How Bioreactors Make a Difference

CREP for Producers

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