Posted by Greg k on March 29, 2015 at 10:01:19 from (70.197.230.155):
I went to Des Moines yesterday and after the post last week was watching the fields and just seeing the common practices. On the drive along I80 from Omaha I noticed that the hills are steeper than in the counties that the lawsuit affects so practices are probably somewhat different. The first thing I noticed was all of the grass waterways on the creases and valleys of the hills. Another thing that surprised me was the amount of waterways that actually had buffer strips along them. A couple hundred miles west in my neck of the woods it is a different story. The terrain and soil are similar but I can only think of 1 grassed waterway in the area. The idea of buffer strips is almost non existent and I can only think of one place where I see it. I realize not everything is the same and that could account for some of the differences. Another thing is terraces. They have been almost completely torn out around here but were in abundance there. Between the larger machinery and no till practices these are gone. Basically there is a lot of contour farming there, while there is next to none here which I have noticed in my drives along Iowa highway 20 also. So if there is a lawsuit and it says that these practices are not enough would this also apt to groundwater runoff from streets and parking lots in Design Moines too? I realize the lawsuit applies mostly to tiling practices that allow this stuff to get into the water without being filtered out by the soil and then running down the raccoon river to Design Moines.
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