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FREE WATER |
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| Why use drinking quality water for all your water needs? It’s really only necessary for cooking and drinking. A half-acre urban lot in northwest Iowa receives approximately 500,000 gallons of rain water a year. Why not use this free water for your vegetables, flowers, and lawn? You could even use this naturally soft water to wash your car! |
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| Not only will this save you money, it will save Storm Lake. Running water is a collector. It likes to pick up anything and everything it happens by. This not only includes paper cups and fast food wrappers, but also motor oil, grass clippings, and pet waste. Anything lying on the ground has the potential to be picked up and carried to the lake by stormwater. | |
| Stop by the Stormwater Education booth in downtown Storm Lake on Saturday, July 25 between 4:00 pm and 8:00 pm to learn more about making and using rain barrels. There will be 2 free rain barrel making sessions during the evening. Registration is limited to 30 adults. | |
| Mission
Statement: Educate and inform land owners, operators, and residents of the Storm Lake Watershed to use conservation for improving the water quality of Storm Lake. Preserve this natural resource, Storm Lake, by community and agency partnership. Click here to read the Grant Applications. Click here to read the 2005 Plan of Operation. Click here to read the 2005 Annual Report. Click here to read the 2006 Plan of Operation. Click here to read the 2006 Annual Report. Click here to read the 2007 Plan of Work. |
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This
project is supported in part by the Iowa Department of Agriculture and Land
Stewardship, Division of Soil Conservation, through funds of the EPA 319
Fund and Water Protection Fund and, by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources
through a grant from the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency under the
Federal Nonpoint Source Management Program (Section 319 of the Clean Water
Act). Technical assistance is provided by the U.S. Department of Agriculture,
Natural Resource Conservation Service.
Buena Vista Soil & Water Conservation District
Lake Preservation Association
(LPA)
Lake Improvement Commission (LIC)
Iowa Lakes RC&D
Farm Service Agency
(FSA)
Iowa Watershed Improvement Review Board
Rural Development
(RD)
Natural Resources Conservation
Service (NRCS)
Buena Vista University (BVU)
City of Storm Lake
Department of Natural
Resources (IDNR)
Iowa State University
Extension
Pheasants Forever
Buena Vista County
Isaac Walton League
City of Lakeside
City of Alta
