IA DNR: Clean Water Starts With You: Lost Grove Lake Watershed

Lost Grove Lake is threatened by excessive nutrients, sediment and organic runoff in the form of fertilizer and manure residue.
Landowners and residents are working together with the Lost Grove Lake Watershed Project to improve their lake.

By installing conservation practices and making other changes, Lost Grove Lake residents are working to improve their farming operations, their land, their lake and the future.
More about Lost Grove Lake

News

Lost Grove Lake holds lake walk, blue gill release
About 50 residents learned about Lost Grove Lake's history, management and future plans at a recent lake walk.
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Lost Grove Lake taking part in snapshot water quality sampling
One of the beneficiary ways volunteers can help Lost Grove Lake is through IOWATER monitoring.

Volunteers collect information on the levels of nitrates, nitrites and a vareity of other chemicals in Lost Grove Lake. From there anyone from around the state can view the results.
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Get Involved

For More Information
Local:
Scott County Soil and Water Conservation District
(563) 391-1403 ext. 3
Scott County NRCS Office

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

There are a number of agricultural conservation practices that are eligible for financial assistance in the Lost Grove Lake 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.