A plan to extend Kimrose Lane in North Royalton to build a cul-de-sac featuring 10 luxury homes, each worth over a million dollars, was approved by the city’s planning commission in April, despite ...

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 ...

An environmental group is raising concerns about how some wetlands are being filled in while a new golf course is being built in Summerside, but a spokesperson for the developer says everything is ...

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

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 ...

A group of neighbors is trying to stop a developer from building a concrete crushing facility on a wetland site that’s ...

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.

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 ...

WEST DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig announced Monday the state agriculture department invested in 14 urban water quality projects, including one ...

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 ...