A Healthy Soil is our most important issue when dealing with sustainable agriculture and clean water. 

Click on this link to see a very short video called Unlock the Secrets in the Soil

This fantastic new documentary explores how water quality and agriculture are connected… in Iowa and downstream.  The filmmaker is Erica Blair, a University of Iowa BFA student who just graduated. It features interviews with Rick Cruse at the Iowa Water Center at Iowa State University and Jerry Peckumn who is on our board and is president of Iowa Rivers Revival, as well as Matt Rota, one of our friends at the Gulf Restoration Network: United for a healthy Gulf of Mexico.

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This draft of the Iowa Great Lakes Management Plan is for comment purposes.  If you would reveiw and get thoughts, ideas, or changes to the Clean Water Alliance, it would be helpful. 

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Below see the the IOWATER Watershed Sampling Report for Dickinson County for the years 2003 to 2008.  The samples come from volunteers who monitor select sites on our Dickinson County water bodies.  These monitoring sites were selected to provide the best data that tells us the overall quality of our water.  The volunteers are dedicated and a great deal of thanks goes out to all who have helped in this endeavor. 

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The DNR has a website with lake water quality information provided by the Limnology Laboratory at Iowa State University.

Check this Web site for the most recent information: Iowa Lake Info System