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Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and several public and private conservation partners recently announced a new water quality blitz project. The project will add 40 saturated buffers and 11 bioreactors to farm fields in Polk and Dallas counties, Iowa, to protect water quality and support recreational opportunities in the Des Moines and Raccoon rivers. The first phase of the project should be completed by mid-2022.
Public-private partnerships are an important component to many conservation projects across the state, but this one is unique because of the number of federal, state, county and local governments collaborating. The groups are using a streamlined approach to work with landowners and contractors to get a large number of edge-of-field practices on the ground faster than using the traditional approach. Instead of working on one site at a time, the Polk County Board of Supervisors has hired one contractor to build dozens of bioreactors and
Central Iowa Blitz Project Will Add 51 Water Quality Practices within Des Moines and Raccoon River Watersheds
Public and private partners announce new conservation project during today’s Clean Water in Iowa Starts Here tour stop
DES MOINES, Iowa (April 28, 2021) – Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig and several public and private conservation partners announced a new water quality blitz project today. The project will add 40 saturated buffers and 11 bioreactors to farm fields in Polk and Dallas Counties to protect water quality and support recreational opportunities in the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers. The first phase of the project should be complete by mid-2022.
This edge-of-field conservation practice is effective, affordable, and easy to maintain. By
1/13/2021 Lee Tesdell farms 80 acres near Huxley, Iowa, that have been in his family since 1884. To maintain such a legacy, he’s adopted a long-term view of sustainability and strives to make his farm an example of the impact conservation practices have on soil health and water quality. Tesdell and row-crop operators Mike and Charles Helland work together on the farm’s management, which, over time, has grown to include a no-till corn/soybean rotation, cover crops, a waterway with native grasses, bromegrass buffer strips, a wood chip bioreactor, and prairie strips.