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Eastern Iowa farmer sets water quality tone
Dec 8, 2017, 13:30 PM
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An eastern Iowa farmer instrumental in improving water quality in his area says others are following his lead.
Jeff Pape no-till farms corn and soybeans in Dubuque County and chairs the Hewitt Creek Watershed project he helped start in 2005.
“We identified certain things that were an issue within our area, which were nitrogen and phosphorous. We attacked those, and after about seven years of continuously testing the water (in the) summertime (and) above heavy rainfalls, we found a turn to the better.
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