THE PROJECT AIMS TO IMPROVE WATER QUALITY. A NEW STORMWATER WETLAND WILL HELP REMOVE POLLUTANTS, IMPROVE HABITAT AND REDUCE RUNOFF. IOWA SECRETARY OF AGRICULTURE MIKE NAIG SAYS HE HOPES LEGACY ...

The Foley City Council approved the first phase of the project to enhance the constructed stormwater wetlands in the Bon Secour River headwaters as a publicly accessible passive recreation area.

Work is moving forward on the Boardwalk at Town Center, a signature park project taking shape behind Johns Creek City Hall.

Haven officials celebrated the grand opening of Lake Conine Nature Park, some 15 years in the making, to improve water ...

But because the low-lying neighborhood flanked a swamp that received untreated sewage discharge and stormwater runoff ... disposal of raw sewage in wetlands, but by then the marshy land had ...

Ann Seda, an urban conservationist with IDALS, said a stormwater wetland will collect overflow in bigger rain events. “And there again, the water will be treated to get the nitrogen uptake in ...

Projects range from adding permeable parking lots and pavers, to the use of bioretention cells, bioswales, rain gardens, native landscaping, oxbows and wetlands to slow and filter stormwater runoff.

Camp Scott on Oxford Street is one of three wetland nature preserves offering free tours on May 17th. These wetlands are more ...

The project in West Des Moines will add bioretention cells, or rain gardens, native plants and a stormwater wetland to the Legacy Woods Nature Sanctuary, as part of its plan to expand to include ...

Don Schoen, a leader with the Legacy Woods Nature Sanctuary project, shows Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig around the property in West Des Moines. (Photo by Cami Koons/Iowa Capital ...