Oct. Forum
We had a full house for Amy Bouska’s presentation on urban conservation practices! Thank you to everyone who attended!
Month: October 2019
Why Monitor Water Quality?
“Monitoring provides the objective evidence necessary to make sound decisions on managing water quality today and in the future. Water-quality monitoring is used to alert us to current, ongoing, and emerging problems, to determine compliance with drinking water standards, and to protect other beneficial uses of water. Assessments based on monitoring data help law makers
How Davenport Uses Marshes to Combat Floods and Climate Change
Decades ago, the Nahant Marsh in Davenport, IA was used as a city dump and then a gun club. Eventually the EPA declared it a Superfund Site in the late 1990s, leading to a cleanup of 140 tons of lead. But then the local community turned it into a nature preserve and began buying nearby farmland, creating