Get the Scoop on Beaver Creek Nitrate Relief with Justin Grieff!

Name: Get the Scoop on Beaver Creek Nitrate Relief with Justin Grieff!
Start: 2025-09-30T17:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-09-30T19:30:00-05:00
Location: The Des Moines Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America

Schedule

Tue Sep 30 2025 at 05:30 pm to 07:30 pm

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Location

The Des Moines Chapter of the Izaak Walton League of America | Des Moines, IA

Join Justin Grieff, Beaver Creek Watershed Coordinator with Boone County Soil & Water Conservation District, at 6:45pm Tuesday, September 30 at the Des Moines Izaak Walton League! 4343 George Flagg Pkwy (Geo. Flagg & Park) Des Moines 50321. Justin will bring us up to date the new $1.9M state project targeting nitrates in Beaver Creek to protect central Iowa’s drinking water. With high nitrate levels previously triggering a lawn watering ban across Central Iowa, water quality experts say this project can’t wait. It starts upstream, in farm fields and drainage systems, and aims to keep drinking water clean downstream. Beaver Creek winds through five counties and flows into the Des Moines River, a key drinking water source for more than 600,000 Iowans. “The overall goal of this project is really to implement conservation practices and water quality practices that are going to be able to remove some of the nitrates out of some of our water,” Grieff said. Those practices include saturated buffers, bioreactors and wetland oxbow restorations. Admission to Justin's talk is FREE & OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, with doors opening at 5:30 and a Meatloaf dinner at 6 available for purchase.