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Landowners and residents are working together with the Clear Creek Watershed Enhancement Project to improve their creek.
By installing conservation practices and making other changes, Clear Creek residents are working to improve their farming operations, their land, their creek and the future.
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Clear Creek Women Landowners Meeting and Field Day
On May 28, gather with conservation staff, listen to a presentation by Abbe Hills farmer Laura Krouse, and tour local farms to view conservation practices in action.
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Board tours Clear Creek watershed
View images from the Clear Creek board's informative October afternoon exploring the upper reaches of Clear Creek.
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Meade working to protect Clear Creek
Landowners like Robert Meade are installing conservation practices to help the creek and preserve their farms for future generations.
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James Martin, Clear Creek watershed project coordinator, can help landowners
James Martin, Clear Creek watershed project coordinator, can help landowners to install conservation practices to help preserve the creek for future generations.
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Local:
James Martin
Clear Creek Watershed Project Coordinator
(319) 337-2322
James.Martin@ia.nacdnet.net
Johnson County NRCS Office
Statewide:
Steve Hopkins
DNR Watershed Improvement Program Grants Coordinator
(515) 281-6402
Stephen.Hopkins@dnr.iowa.gov
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- Women landowners workshop:
May 28, 2-6 p.m.
- Riparian buffer field day:
July 23, 5:30 p.m.
- Pasture walk:
(date tba)
There are a number of urban and agricultural conservation practices that are eligible for financial assistance in the Clear Creek Watershed.
Read more on funding opportunities
A watershed is the area of land that drains into a lake or stream.
Water traveling over the surface or through groundwater may pick up contaminants like sediment, chemicals and waste and deposit them in a body of water.
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