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Project map
Pilot Project Overview (PDF, 2 pp.)
Posters
News Clippings
Sediment testing results (PDF, 37 pp.)
Response to public comment prepared for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (PDF, 18 pp.)
Journal article on water quality improvement in wetlands (PDF, 17 pp.)
U.S. EPA web site on nitrogen and phosphorus pollution

NUTRIENT FARMING

GOOSE POND NUTRIENT FARMING PILOT PROJECT

HENNEPIN & HOPPER LAKES
MIDEWIN NATIONAL TALLGRASS PRAIRIE
FLOOD DAMAGE
REDUCTION STUDY
COFFEE CREEK
SEDIMENT REDUCTION
BUBBLY CREEK
PROPOSED
RESTORATION


Goose Pond
Nutrient Farming Pilot Project

News Clippings

Washington Post, June 24, 2007, page A3.
Project Aims to Convert Farmland Into Wetlands, by Peter Slevin and Kari Lydersen.

Peoria Journal Star, January 13, 2008, Section F, page 1.
Value in the land: Wetlands Initiative puts nutrient farming to test at Goose Lake near Hennepin. By Clare Howard; Photographs by David Zalaznik.

Zoogoer (magazine of Friends of the National Zoo), January/February 2008, pp 8-15.
Rising Water: Restoring Ruined Wetlands. By Brendan Borrell.

 

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