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Landowners and residents are working together with the Price Creek Watershed Project to improve their creek.
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By installing conservation practices and making other changes, Price Creek residents are working to improve their farming operations, their land, their creek and the future.
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News
Fall 2007 newsletter available
Read about EQIP deadlines, upcoming workshops and other ways to improve Price Creek.
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Price Creek Watershed Project to Hold Kickoff Event
The Price Creek Watershed Project will hold a project
kickoff event on September 10 at 6:00 p.m. at the Amana Community
Park located in Middle Amana.
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Desire to protect water quality leads to partnerships, funding for Price Creek
Price Creek appeared on Iowa's impaired waters list in 2004. The news looked grim for the 13-mile tributary of
the Iowa River, but with word of two grant application approvals, Price Creek is restoring its beauty.
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Aaron Pickens, Price Creek watershed project coordinator, can help landowners
Aaron Pickens, Price Creek watershed project coordinator, can help landowners install conservation practices to help preserve the creek for future generations.
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Get Involved
For More Information
Local:
Aaron Pickens
Price Creek Watershed Project Coordinator
(319) 668-2010
Aaron.Pickens@ia.nacdnet.net
Iowa County NRCS Office
Statewide:
Steve Hopkins
DNR Nonpoint Source Program Coordinator
(515) 281-6402
Stephen.Hopkins@dnr.iowa.gov
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No events currently scheduled.
There are a number of agricultural conservation practices that are eligible for financial assistance in the Price 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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