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Clear Creek Watershed Project
Clear Creek travels through Johnson County.

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.
More about Clear Creek

News

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.
Read more

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.
More about Martin

Get Involved

For More Information
Local:
James Martin
Clear Creek Watershed Project Coordinator
(319) 337-2322
James.Martin@ia.nacdnet.net
Johnson County NRCS Office

Statewide:
Steve Hopkins
DNR Nonpoint Source Program Coordinator
(515) 281-6402
Stephen.Hopkins@dnr.iowa.gov

Upcoming events

No scheduled events at this time.

Funding opportunities

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

What's a watershed?

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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