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Groen Family Manages Risk with Conservation
Rob and Wendi Groen of Maurice, Iowa, have been actively farming for nearly a quarter century. The family farm where they reside became a Century Farm in 1999, 100 years after Rob’s great grandfather...
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Storm Lake Renovates Lagoon into Water Quality Wetland Site
What was once a lime lagoon that belonged to the water treatment plant is now the Abner Bell stormwater wetland in Storm Lake, Iowa.The City of Storm Lake received a Water Quality Initiative (WQI)...
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City of Readlyn Success Story
The City of Readlyn worked with neighboring farmers to construct a stormwater wetland on the southwest edge of town. The wetland project is funded through the Water Quality Initiative and State...
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Lenox Sets Example with Water Quality Project
Lenox’s new stormwater wetland brings functionality and intrigue to the rural Iowa community. The City also installed a new bioswale as a part of its growing effort to enhance water quality. The City...
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Oxbows Restored in Central Iowa
Polk County is getting a renovation in a big way — oxbows across the county are being restored thanks to a Water Quality Initiative (WQI) grant from the Iowa Department of Agriculture in partnership...
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Webster City Enhances Water Trail with Stormwater Wetland
Riverside Park is a green haven within Webster City, neighboring the Boone River. Some of Iowa’s most important water resources are housed within the Boone River. The city applied for and received a...
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Des Moines Improves Water Quality with Fourmile Creek Wetland
Within the Des Moines metro area, a new stormwater wetland was constructed to improve water quality and meet the goals of the Fourmile Creek Watershed management plan.Fourmile Creek Watershed...
View Article#MyStewardshipStory: A Heartland Co-op grower’s journey to becoming 100% no-till
In 1969, Doug Honeck came back to his family’s farm full-time after attending Iowa State University. When his father started thinking about retirement 15 years later, Doug and his wife Eileen found...
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Iowa: Building a Watershed Community Through Conservation Partnerships
By: Kate Giannini, Iowa Watershed Approach Communications Specialist, Iowa Flood CenterTHE WATERSHED APPROACHThe Middle Cedar Watershed covers about 1.5 million acres in east central Iowa and spans...
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The Golden Hills RC&D Bringing Urban Practices to Rural Communities
This multi-site Water Quality Initiative funded project added bioretention cells and rain gardens to county courthouses, fairgrounds, and public offices in six communities across four southwest Iowa...
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Main Street Reconstruction Project in Elkhart
The City of Elkhart installed permeable pavers in parking areas along Main Street, highlighting how a small town can do projects that make a big impact on stormwater quality. This practice will reduce...
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Ribbon Cutting Marks Completion of CampusTown WQI Project
On May 27, 2021, Secretary Naig attended the ribbon cutting for the City of Ames’s permeable pavers and bioretention systems project funded by the IDALS Water Quality Initiative. Permeable pavers were...
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Vesterheim’s Heritage Park Project: Setting a Course to Reduce Nutrients in...
Thanks in part to IDALS Water Quality Initiative funding, the Vesterheim Norwegian-American Museum in Decorah’s outdoor spaces now include water quality practices including soil quality restoration,...
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Hotel Millwright Campus Urban Conservation Project
The Hotel Millwright, a boutique hotel and event center in the Amana Colonies, received IDALS Water Quality Initiative funding to install permeable pavers, a bioretention cell, and native landscaping...
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Grand Avenue Extension Stormwater Wetland in Ames
The City of Ames was granted funds from the IDALS Water Quality Initiative to install a stormwater wetland along the newly-extended Grand Avenue to intercept 100 acres of stormwater runoff before...
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Muscatine Parking Lot Runoff Solutions
The City of Muscatine was granted IDALS Water Quality Initiative funding to install bioretention cells and permeable pavement in an urban setting close to City Hall as a pilot project for anticipated...
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Cherokee Stormwater Improvements
The City of Cherokee used IDALS Water Quality Initiative funds to install a bioretention basin near the Community Center centrally located within the city. This project will provide water quality...
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Coral Ridge Avenue Reconstruction
The City of Coralville, in partnership with the City of North Liberty, received IDALS Water Quality Initiative funds to reconstruct a mile-long section of Coral Ridge Avenue, a prime entrance to both...
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Putting the Land First
By Dan Case On April 4th, in a year with seven-dollar corn and sixteen-dollar beans, one would expect to find any farmer in the Midwest topping off the fuel tank of his tractor and greasing the last...
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Peterson Brothers Committed to Conservation
When Carol Peterson passed, he left his boys Mike, Darwin, Carl and Phillip quite a challenge. Carol had 373 acres; a high-quality hill farm that has always been treated with a crop rotation of hay...
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