Silver Creek Success Story

The DNR is helping Iowans across the state improve our lakes and streams by supporting and working with watershed projects. By making changes in how we manage both private and public land, we can reduce the amount of pollution like sediment, nutrients and bacteria, reaching our water. The highlights featured below are just some of the many successes we've seen so far, and there's more work underway.

Silver Creek Landowners and local citizens, along with the Silver Creek Watershed Project are working together to improve Silver Creek. Project activities center around accelerating the voluntary adoption of conservation practices that will result in improved water quality for Silver Creek. Project objectives include: Promote stream corridor and sinkhole protection along critical areas of the watershed and install buffer practices on an additional 40 percent of the Silver Creek stream channel.