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Landowners and residents are working together with the Upper Catfish Creek Watershed Project to improve their creek.
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By installing conservation practices and making other changes, Upper Catfish Creek residents are working to improve their farming operations, their land, their creek and preserve it for the future.
More about Upper Catfish Creek
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Upper Catfish Creek Watershed to host low impact development (LID) workshop
The Upper Catfish Creek Watershed will host a workshop on low impact development, an innovative stormwater management approach with a basic principle to
use design techniques that infiltrate, filter, store, evaporate and detain runoff close to its source. The workshop is March 13 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque.
LID workshop flyer (*.pdf)
LID workshop brochure (*.pdf)
Upper Catfish Creek Watershed to host septic system workshop
The Upper Catfish Creek Watershed has received funding to provide up to 21 vouchers, worth $100 each, good towards the pumping
of septic tanks within the Upper Catfish Creek watershed boundaries. The workshop will be held at the Swiss Valley Nature
Center on Wednesday, August 22, from 1-3 p.m.
More about septic system workshop
DNR awards grant funding to Swiss Valley Nature Center
A grant recently awarded by the DNR will help the Dubuque County Conservation Board control
storm water at the Swiss Valley Nature Center near Peosta.
The $7,500 grant will help install a pervious parking area and a permeable grass paver walkway
to reduce storm water runoff entering Catfish Creek.
Read more
Eric Schmechel, Upper Catfish Creek watershed project coordinator, can help landowners
Eric Schmechel, Upper Catfish Creek watershed project coordinator, can help landowners to install conservation practices to help preserve the creek for future generations.
More about Schmechel
Get Involved
For More Information
Local:
Eric Schmechel
Upper Catfish Creek Watershed Project Coordinator
(563) 876-3418 ext. 3
Eric.Schmechel@ia.nacdnet.net
Dubuque SWCD Office
Statewide:
Steve Hopkins
DNR Watershed Improvement Program Grants Coordinator
(515) 281-6402
Stephen.Hopkins@dnr.iowa.gov
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The Upper Catfish Creek Watershed will host a workshop on low impact development,an innovative stormwater management approach, March 13 at the Grand River Center in Dubuque.
LID workshop flyer (*.pdf)
LID workshop brochure (*.pdf)
There are a number of urban and agricultural conservation practices that are eligible for financial assistance in the Upper Catfish 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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