EPA announces $3.15 million in water quality funding in Iowa

EPA announces $3.15 million in water quality funding in Iowa

The EPA is providing over three million dollars in Farmer to Farmer grants to three Iowa-based projects that are working to improve water quality, habitat, and environmental education.

Practical Farmers of Iowa was awarded 936-thousand dollars for its project entitled “Roots for Water Quality: A Farmer-to-Farmer Model for a Sustainable Mississippi Basin”. The University of Iowa received a million dollars for “Connecting Rural and Peri-urban Farmers to Demonstrate and Disseminate Innovative Nutrient and Sediment Reduction Practices”.

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