Get Involved
Active community involvement is crucial to the success of watershed planning and implementation. The commission welcomes volunteers from the community to help with water quality monitoring, cost-share participation and watershed stewardship.
Phosphorus is a challenge for local water quality because of its role in the scientific process called Eutrophication. This occurs when excess nutrients (nitrogen and phosphorus) accelerate the growth of algae in a stream or lake. This then often results in a decrease of oxygen in that waterbody, as well as the production of potential algal toxins and taste and odor compounds in the water. Lawn fertilizer washed into local waterways by rain presents one of the greatest, quickest dissolving inputs of phosphorus to streams and lakes.
You can help, by making a pledge to use Phosphorus Free lawn fertilizer HERE.
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Whether you own farm land, raise livestock, own a home or live in multi-unit housing, you can take part in the watershed cleanup. Volunteers can participate by avoiding activites that contribute to non-point source pollution. Efforts can be as simple as disposing of pet waste, maintaining septic systems, properly disposing of home chemicals, avoiding automobile oil spills or installing a rain garden