Staff and Beaver Creek Water Quality Project 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.

Staff and Beaver Creek
Before Neil Shaffer became the project coordinator at Staff and Beaver Creeks, only three conservation practices were installed in the watershed. In his first year as project coordinator, the project had 36 practices implemented and this year there is over 50.