There is currently a planning process taking place to develop
a Master Plan for the Raccoon River Watershed. If you live in this
watershed, I encourage you to follow the link to the survey copied below
and provide your input into this process. It will take 5 minutes or less
to complete the survey. Please, add your voice to this process.
Do you live in the watershed of
Iowa’s Raccoon River?
The Raccoon
River drains 3600 square miles of central Iowa including large portions of Buena
Vista, Calhoun, Carroll, Dallas, Greene, Guthrie, Pocahontas, Polk, Sac, and
Webster counties (see the yellow-highlighted area in the map below). The river
has been documented as having very poor water quality. In fact, the watershed
has been ranked by some as the highest source of nitrate loading into the
Mississippi River.
Plans are
underway to begin the process of developing a plan to improve water quality in
the Raccoon River. Because you live in, farm, or work in this area, this plan
may impact you. And, because of this, we’d like to know more about your
knowledge and opinions regarding water quality in the river. Please follow
the link below to complete a short, on-line survey. The survey should take 10
minutes or less to complete. Survey responses will be collected until May 16,
2010.
We’ll be using this information
to help determine how to improve water quality in the watershed. Your answers
will be kept completely confidential. To complete the survey, simply click
on the link below.
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/8M57DZ2
Water quality is important to us
all. Thank you very much for your time and willingness to participate. Please
consider forwarding this email to others in your address book who may also be
stakeholders in the watershed.
p.s. Agren, Inc., has been hired
by the M&M Divide RC&D and Iowa Department of Natural Resources to
develop a plan for the Raccoon River Watershed. The planning process will
involve many experts and watershed stakeholders. A final plan will be developed
by June, 2011. If you have questions or concerns about this survey, or the
planning process, please contact Jamie Ridgely at one of the numbers or
email address below.
Office Ph. 712-792-6248
Cell Ph. 712-830-9780
Fax. 712-792-6175
Thanks again for
your help, and don’t forget to forward this message on to others in your address
book who live in or work in the Raccoon River Watershed!