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Local SWCD, landowner work together on German-Jefferson water quality project


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Years ago, the wetland on the corner of Leo Koppelman’s Cleveland Township farm site was a meadow. Here, he stands at the site of a 2.5-acre wetland restoration before work began. The Le Sueur County SWCD project, which finished in summer 2020 and draws from a BWSR Clean Water Fund grant, directs water from neighbors’ upland fields through the wetland. The water is now treated before it enters Middle Jefferson Lake. (Photo by Ann Wessel, BWSR)
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Photo Credit: Le Sueur County SWCD
Le Sueur County SWCD Manager Mike Schultz, right, visits with Cleveland Township landowner Leo Koppelman on his Cleveland Township farm, where a 2.5-acre wetland restoration is among the SWCD’s phosphorus reduction projects within the German-Jefferson chain of lakes watershed. A Clean Water Fund grant from BWSR is in play. (Photo by Ann Wessel, BWSR) ....

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