Join the "Million Gallon Challenge" and help stop flooding in Iowa

State Senator Rob Hogg, Chair of the Senate Rebuild Iowa Committee, and Jean Wiedenheft, Margaret Wolter, and Don Johnson of the Indian Creek Nature Center participated in a press conference yesterday to discuss individual and state actions that can reduce future flood damage. Join the challenge by purchasing a 65 gallon rain barrel from the Indian Creek Nature Center...or two or three! It will help reduce the amount of water going into the water shed this spring and reduce the chances of flooding.
 

 

Other things you can do:  Watch where rain collects on your property during a storm. Anywhere the water pools is an opportunity to decrease runoff.

1. Install a rain barrel

- Rain barrels reduce runoff, reduce pressure on aquifers for watering a garden, and they can reduce a water usage bill or electric usage bill (city or well).

2. Plant a rain garden

- Rain gardens reduce runoff, provide beauty and wildlife, and ensure less lawn area to mow.

3. Install permeable paving (grasspave, gravelpave, concrete, asphalt, pavers)

- Permeable paving depends on a clean rock subbase to retain the water under the pavement, where water can percolate slowly into the surrounding soil.

4. Plant native wildflowers and shrubs

- Native plants have deep roots that decrease watering needs and increase an area’s natural beauty, interest, and wildlife habitat. Plating wildlife also leads to less area to mow and reduced energy usage.

5. Plant low-mow lawns

- Low-mow lawns have deeper root systems that hold water well and therefore require less watering.

Comments

[Jen R. (emeraldsunshine.org)]

We are installing two rain barrels this year, I'm going to start on a rain garden, we might do some permeable paving (if we get enough money), and I'm planting a prairie in my side yard! Looks like I'm on the right track. :)

[Rebecca: a midwestern urbanite]



[EveAlexander35]

If you want to buy a house, you would have to receive the personal loans. Moreover, my father commonly takes a sba loan, which seems to be really useful.